"I first started playing with my friend Jason Cobb. He was an excellent guitar player, from the "sit in your room, smoke pot and learn Led Zeppelin songs note for note all day" school of guitar. Our first band was an argument. Sitting around one day with our friends Glen Essary and Glen Attebury, Jason decided to demonstrate the inane simplicity of punk rock by composing a typical punk rock song on the spot. He lost the argument and that song became Product of Rape's first song.

"Diddly Squat was my first actual band. We played hardcore and put out one 7" record. I bought a van and we did a few tours, breaking up after the last one in 1988. Diddly Squat drummer Eric Akre and I then conspired with friends in a Washington D.C. band called Christ on a Crutch (which included Product of Rape singer Glen Essary) to reform that band in Seattle. In the six month interim between Diddly Squat and Christ on a Crutch, I moved to Seattle and played in a straight edge band called Brotherhood. This band had pretty great songs but was weighted down with burden of being a straight edge band. It was really fun, though. Christ on a Crutch got together and played for a few years, doing tours and putting out a bunch of singles and an LP. We played at an anarchy festival once. This band died in 1993.

Around 1992, Dan Hoerner, William Goldsmith and I formed band called a lot of things and then finally Sunny Day Real Estate. While I was in Europe on Christ On A Crutch's final tour, Jeremy Enigk joined the band. We had an easier time getting shows with him in the band.

"Jeremy quit in 1994 and the band broke up. This is about the time that Dave started handing out his tape and thinking about putting together a band. And then we had to write these embarrassing little things."