Here's what the back cover of the CD looks like...
And here's what the CD lable itself looks like...
Shallow Grave Productions is pleased to announce that Typhoid Mary's debut album, Eat The Cookie, has been re-released with bonus material and one live track.
Here's what the back cover of the CD looks like...
And here's what the CD lable itself looks like...
The cost for this new CD is only $8.00 and that includes postage within the continental United States, and only $10.00 for orders outside the United States.
For payment and ordering information please write to Shallow Grave Productions. You can also drop us a line if you have any questions.
The complete track list for Eat The Cookie will be....
Shallow Grave Productions is pleased to announce that Typhoid Mary has officially released their live album, Typhoid Mary Live
Typhoid Mary recorded their last show at Pop's in St. Louis before founding member Steve Hammond had to break up the band before moving back to Akron.
"It's not the greatest live recording in the history of Rock & Roll but it's damn good and it's definetly the best live show Typhoid Mary had ever done up to that point," Steve Hammond told us. "The album is a tribute to the members of the St. Louis version of the band who made it the best version of Typhoid Mary since the band was founded."
The CD costs $10 and the price includes shipping and handling charges. And for a limited time you can have both Typhoid Mary Live and Eat The Cookie for only $15.
Please write to Shallow Grave Productions for details on how to order.
Shallow Grave Records is pleased to announce that it has released The Attix Anthology - Part One & Two as a tribute to the late Scot "Squatty" White, Typhoid Mary's first road manager.
Before forming Typhoid Mary, Steve Hammond and Jeff Bechter were members of The Attix, an Akron-based band that was one of only a handful of Akron bands who played original material in the late 1980's. Scot was the manager of The Attix but he often sat in on the band's rehearsals as rhythm guitarist before Jeff Bechter joined the band.
Part One of The Attix Anthology features the demo tape the band submitted to Atlantic Records in May of 1988. Part Two features select excerpts from the band's rehearsal tapes recorded at their Wildon Street studio in the Fall of 1987.
The cost of the CD is only $5.00, which includes the cost of shipping, so order your copy today by contacting
Steve Hammond has informed us that he is continuing to comb through The Attix archives for more material which he hopes to release as The Attix Anthology - Part Three & Four by the end of this year.
In January of 1992, the Youngstown version of Typhoid Mary recorded what became known at the EWAS Sessions. Shallow Grave Records plans to release these rehearsal sessions on CD by mid-2006.
What will be on the CD is unknown so stay tuned for more details. We do know the cover of the albums will look like this:
Here's some Typhoid Mary history from the month of March...
1979 - March 10 - Paradise, a cover-band Steve Hammond was once a member of, performs at the Spring Formal Dance at North High School in Akron, Ohio.
The entire night is a disaster from the beginning because the band spends most of the afternoon before the dance partying, which ruins the entire show. If the truth be known, Steve and Paradise bassist Bruce Vavra show up for the gig stoned and just keep on partying.
After their gig, the school's prinicpal tells the band he's going to make it his personal mission to see that Paradise never plays another gig for any Akron school. His mission fails.
An intersting historical note is that Steve played drums during one of the band's slow numbers during the show. The only time, so far, that he's played the drums.
1988 - March 01 - Steve Hammond finishes a rough mix of How's It Gonna Feel at Sunset Studios in Hartville, Ohio. This is the third straight day Steve's spent at the studio working on the song, which his previous band, The Attix, had begun recording on the 28th of February.
Steve rushes the rough mix to Steve Gibson at WRQK, Goodrock 107, in Canton, Ohio, who features the song that night on the station's Local Licks program in order to promote the Attix' upcomming appearance on WOAC TV's Thriller Theater.
1988 - March 02 - Day Four of mixing How's It Gonna Feel at Sunset Studios ends abruptly when one of the studio monitors blows a mid-range speaker. Danny Husak, the studio's owner, claims he has no time to replace the speaker that day and tells Steve to come back the next day.
1988 - March 03 - Day Five of mixing How's It Gonna Feel kicks off with Steve helping Danny replace the blown mid-range speaker in the studio monitor, which Danny bought at a near-by Radio Shack. Steve spends the entire afternoon mixing the song, then dubbing it to a master reel and a master cassette.
After finishing the mix, Steve rushes home in a heavy snow storm to prepare for The Attix' video shoot that night at the studios of WOAC TV in Canton, Ohio. He finishes getting ready minutes before the rest of the band shows up at his apartment.
Due to the heavy snow storm falling on Canton, The Attix arrive late at WOAC TV. They're also late because they spent so much time at Steve's apartment partying that they left late. Neither Kevin Scarpino, the host of Thriller Theatre, nor any of the crew seems to mind, or notice.
The Attix shoot three takes of the video while lip-syncing How's It Gonna Feel and settle on the third take. After the shoot they return to Steve's apartment and continue partying.
The Attix were......
1988 - March 05 - Steve Hammond and Attix road manager Scot White attend the Frank Zappa concert at Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio. Immediately following the concert, they rush back to Attix bassist Jeff Merka's house in Akron, arriving just minutes before their video for How's It Gonna Feel airs on Thriller Theatre on WOAC TV. They party into the early hours, celebrating their video debut.
1991 - March 18 - While Steve Hammond is working at CD-106, WNCD, in Youngstown, Ohio, the station's program director fires the station's morning host, Reckless Randy, over his addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol. Several days before being fired, Randy was forcibly admitted to the psychiatric ward of a Youngstown hospital because he was experiencing cocaine-induced psychosis.
Sympathetic as ever, Steve uses this incident as the inspiration for the Typhoid Mary song The D.T. Boogie.
1992 - March 22 - Typhoid Mary's upcomming second appearance at Dr. Feelgood's in Akron, Ohio, is cancelled by the club's owner, who feels the band's material is both too controversial and too offensive. He tells the band they'll never play in his club again.
1992 - March 27 - Typhoid Mary plays to a sold-out house while opening for Britney Fox at JB's Lounge in Youngstown, Ohio. The members of Britney Fox actually watch Typhoid Mary's entire set and tell them later that they're surprised no record company has signed them.
At the time, Typhoid Mary were.....
1992 - March 28 - Upon arriving for that day's rehearsal, Chris Bell announces that he's taking control of all future bookings for Typhoid Mary and that he will decide the price they band will charge for each gig, and wether or not the gig will be accepted by the band. A heated argument follows this announcement and Chris storms out of Gary's basement, threatening not to show up for the band's gig the next day.
1992 - March 29 - With tensions running very high, the members of Typhoid Mary gather at their rehearsal studio in Gary Wiecek's basement to prepare for their gig that night at Cedar's Lounge in Youngstown, Ohio.
The evening starts out with Chris Bell screaming at the band's road manager, Scot White, for showing up at the studio late. Scot tells the band he's quitting but Steve and Joel talk him out of it. Neither Scot or Chris speak to each other the rest of the night.
At Cedar's Lounge the band is told that they'll be going on later than they had been told. The promoter of the show is delaying the starting time for all the bands that night so that more people can show up for the gig. As it turns out, Typhoid Mary would go on almost two hours later than they had expected.
The band spends this extra time drinking heavily and avoiding each other as much as possible. They use Scot White as a messenger when they want to communicate with each other, refusing to speak with each other directly. The more they drink, the more belligerent they become.
Oddly enough, when Typhoid Mary finally do take the stage, very late and VERY drunk, they put on what is still considered this version of the band's best show ever. It's also the only time that the band performs H'sur, so far.
The Typhoid Mary archives include the video tape that was shot at the show. The tape contains not only the band's performance, but also pre-show and post-show footage of the band arguing backstage.
1997 - March 19 - Typhoid Mary enters Studio E at the Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio, to record Flexible Flyer.
John Boyd had originally been scheduled to play bass for the session but the day before it took place he called Steve to let him know he was having surgery done on his mouth and would probably not be able to make the session. Steve immediately called Joel Stoker to fill him in and Joel said he could play the bass part as well as the lead guitar part.
The next day, just hours before the session was scheduled to start, John called Steve to let him know he was OK and would be able to make the session afterall.
Although Joel was prepared to record the bass part, Steve tells him that since John was offered the part first, he's going to allow John to play for the session. After allowing John to record several bass tracks, Joel convinces him to sit the session out so that he can play the bass tracks. Steve can tell John is dissappointed so he spends the next several hours out the in the Workshop's parking lot partying with John while Joel cuts his lead guitar tracks.
Due to Joel's desire for perfection and several major studio equipment failures, the session doesn't end untill shortly after six the next morning. Joel drops Steve off at his apartment in Columbus and continues on to his home in Salem, Ohio.
Typhoid Mary's line-up for the session was....
On a Typhoid Mary historical note, it should be pointed out that is only the third time in the band's history that they recorded as a trio. The other two times were the sessions for Akron Stolen Car Blues (Righteous Indignation Version) and The D.T. Boogie.
2000 - March 04 - Brian Schreiber auditions for Typhoid Mary and is offered membership in the band on the spot, which he accepts.
2000 - March 09 - At a secret weekday rehearsal that current drummer Dan Bammert doesn't know about, Typhoid Mary auditions drummer "T" Rexx Waggoner. Brian, Steve Hammond and JP agree that adding Rexx to the band would be a big step in the right direction and he's offered the job on the spot. JP offers to call Dan later that night with the bad news.
Also in March.....
1989 - Jae Judge, who appears on Come On, is kicked out of Typhoid Mary. Jae refuses to believe that he's no longer a member of the band and continues to show up for rehearsal for another week.
Guy "Hector" Bechter quits Typhoid Mary in order to join L'America. This presents a serious potential problem since Typhoid Mary are rehearsing at Guy's house, but he allows the band to continue rehearsing there during the day, while L'America rehearses at night.
Ron "Piece Of The Action" Cain joins Typhoid Mary as their new bassist. Ron also becomes the person who is a member of Typhoid Mary for the shortest amount of time when he is kicked out of the band two days later. Ron's attempt at asserting total control over the band three hours after becomming a member is the major contributing factor to his being fired.
"Mad" Mark Masters becomes Typhoid Mary's new bassist two days after Ron Cain is kicked out. Mark and Typhoid Mary drummer Coy Brumbaugh are friends from their previous band, Cuntagous.
1991 - The newly re-formed Typhoid Mary begin rehearsing at road manager Scot White's house in Uniontown, Ohio. It wouldn't be untill September that the band would move into Gary Wiecek's basement.
At the time, Typhoid Mary were....
1996 - While living in Columbus, Ohio, Steve Hammond is contacted by UFO bassist Pete Way. Pete had recently moved to Columbus after he and a local doctor, Dr. Joanna DeMas, were married. Pete expresses his interest in joining Typhoid Mary on bass. However, before anything can be finalized, UFO re-forms and Pete leaves Columbus for a world tour.
