WHILE SEARCHING THE WEB FOR GOODIES ON OUR FAVORITE BAND. I FOUND THIS BIZARRE LINK (now dead) TO A BAND CALLED SKOE... LISTED AS BAND
MEMBERS WERE SKID, JON E. LOVE AND JOEY FROM LOVE/HATE. THE WHOLE GROUP MINUS KING JIZZO!? AFTER GETTING THE LOW-DOWN FROM SKIDS WIFE KAREN (THANX), I CAN TELL YOU WHAT THIS IS ABOUT, BUT IT LOOKS, FROM WHAT SHE TOLD ME, THAT A LOT OF YOU MIGHT ALREADY KNOW:
SKOE SEEMS TO HAVE APPEARED AT THE TIME WHEN JIZZY WAS CONSTANTLY IN AND OUT OF THE BAND, AND LOVE/HATE WERE CLINGING TO LIFE BETWEEN "I'M NOT HAPPY" AND "LIVING OFF LAYLA". SKID PUT THE BAND TOGETHER WITH HIM ON BASS, JOHN E. LOVE ON GUITAR, JOEY ON DRUMS, AND A FEMALE SIGNER NAMED MOE ON VOCALS TO FILL OUT THE LINE UP. THE LINK ABOVE AT ONE TIME WOULD HAVE TAKEN YOU TO MP3.COM, WHERE THEY HAD SOME EARLY VERSIONS OF TWO SKOE SONGS WITH SKID SINGING SCRATCH VOCALS, BEFORE THEY GOT THEIR SINGER.
THE BAND RECORDED SONGS AT THE HOUSE OF ALEX STUDER, A FRIEND OF SKIDS WITH A RECORDING STUDIO. SKID PUSHED THE TAPES HARD, AND HUNDREDS OF COPIES OF THE TAPE WERE GIVEN OUT AT SOME UK LOVE/HATE GIGS IN '96, BUT AFTER SOME LOCAL GIGGING (IN HELL CA.) AND SHOPPING FOR A RECORD DEAL THEY GAVE UP.
SOME OF THE SONGS THAT WERE WRITTEN FOR SKOE, SHOWED UP ON "LIVING OFF LAYLA" AS LOVE/HATE TUNES.
IF YOU WERE ONE OF THE ONES TO GET THIS TAPE, COUNT YOURSELF LUCKY, YOU HAVE A PIECE OF ODD, LOVE/HATE HISTORY
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