:::a brief story:::
Evan - bass (14)
Joel - "sings" (12)
April - drums (13)
Ray - guitar (13)
This is how it happened: We formed at the begining of the school year everyone is in 7th grade except for me, I'm in 8th now going into 9th. We live in a really small town of rednecks and rich kids, no one knows anything about punk music and they like crap like Creed, adn rock shit. Ray moved from Georgia and his first day he had on a Bad Brains shirt, the yellow one with the lighting striking the capital. I couldnt believe anyone here liked anything that I did, so we became friends really quick, being into the same exact stuff like , Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Germs, X, Wire, and Generation X. After a few months we started learning how to play instruments, I started learning guitar but Ray's dad gave him an old guitar so he got into that and I got a bass and an amp at a pawn shop.
We like Beat Happening a lot and didnt care about not being able to play, and we still can't. April goes to our school and was into alright stuff and we started talking to her and told her we wanted to start a band. I made her tons of compalation tapes and she got into what we liked and she wanted to sing, but she was to shy. We went into the band room at school and stole a snayre drum and a cymbal so she started to hit on them when we played so it sounded like we had a drummer. her parents got her some drums for her birthday and we thought we we're set. We practiced at my house every Saturday and Sunday (and still do) with out singing because we suck and can't. Her next door neighbor who is Joel would come over sometimes and watch us and we hated him at first, he had a rat tail and was redneck. Then we started fucking around and he started acting like he was singing, soon we got him into a lot of the same bands as us and he really likes The Go Gos so he trys to sing like their singer Balendia ha.
We all became really good friends and no one likes us they call us fat and fags all the time and we hate everybody here pretty much. our first band name was The Glue Girls we thought it was cool for a few weeks but only one of us is a girl so we changed it to the White Board Youth which came from starring at a white marker board in class for hours. One day we were eating lunch and a kid that knew about our band started yelling at shit at us making fun of us. he yelled Fat Youth at us instead of White Board Youth. We are all overweight except for April, but shes not skinny either, we were mad at first then thought later that day laughed about it and thought itd be a good band name. So thats how we became Fat Youth. - Evan