Just When You Thought You Knew It All

The band today known as The Lagomorphs has enjoyed a long and prestigious history through several different incarnations. They arrived at perfection only after a long struggle in which band members were constantly clawing their way to the top amidst a dreadful cacophony of second-rate instruments and third-rate arrangements. Included here is a sketchy, often apocryphl, timeline of events leading to the formation of everyone's favorite group named after an obscure family of mammals.

Sept. '92: Rick and Judah had Mr. Bonds first period PE class. Their numbers were seperated by a common friend, Mike Papa, and they were soon acquainted. Their friendship was sealed later that day with the discovery that they were among the few who had actually signed up for Ms. Neblitt's drama class, and throughout the year during their ordeal in Mr. Hatalsky's pre-algebra.
Sept. '93: Being hurled together into Mr. Hatalsky's Algebra class only increased their friendship, hate of overhead projectors, and fueled the need for something greater than math. They soon hit upon the idea to form a band. Thus we discover that The Lagomorphs sole purpose for existance is so the world can be a better place with less formulas.
Jan. '94: During the next six months, and generally without the aid of musical instruments, an embryonic band began to form under the moniker Copyright. It was this band which prompted Rick to purchase his first guitar. It was a tinny blue piece of crap by Memphis®. It sits in his room gathering dust and being the butt of many a joke. As Copyright the band enjoyed one actual rehersal with only three quarters of it's members present. Thankfully all the songs written at this juncture have been lost with the aid of electroshock therapy and hypnosis. It took them a couple years to get over the experience. During this period Rick and Judah continued to make a mockery of music everywhere using The Blue Thing and a Cheap Ass Shit Worthless Global Acoustic Guitar which was aptly renamed Q after the key in which it played most often. Q now sits unused lurking in a corner of the room near a banjo which somehow appeared, but has never been played.
Nov. '95: Judah gets his first guitar. He ordered it through the mail from J.C.Penney. No one knows why. At this point the band was practicing under the name Giraffe Noises with Lisa Sindorf. Since at this point only Lisa could play the guitar with any accuracy, she was stationed at the piano. We think that this says a lot about this era.
Jan. '96: With the addition of Kyle Walker on horns and Vala Burnett on bass, Free Petting Zoo was born. Only three or four songs still exist and have been heavily rewritten. Eventually they discovered that someone had already used the name Petting Zoo and some other band had an album out called Heavy Petting Zoo and the name had to be changed.
Apr. '96: Rick got a new guitar, commonly reffered to as The Weepy Ass Accoustic. During this point the band was functionally the same, but minus a name.
Summer '96: The band held no practices as a cohesive unit (as if), however, smaller units continued to rehearse. The band more or less dissolved with the members going their seperate ways; some after girls, some after grades, some to various shrinks and others just away. It was during this time that Judah surpassed Rick on guitar. If you take a good look at the time line, you'll see just how pathetic this really is.
Fall '96:The band formerly known as Free Petting Zoo officially breaks up. In it's place arises the Spastic Rats. Consisting of Rick and Judah with occasional aid from other musicians; this was very close to the original incarnation of the Łagomorphs except:
The name was different.
They only knew 3 chords
Several songs from this era have been revamped and make excellent filler material, with the occasional good song. After gruelling torture working for Rick's fascist dad, they were able to upgrade their gear. Judah got his first Strat, and Rick got his first pedals. The band was forever changed. They jammed a lot. It was good.
Winter '97: Three or four days before x-mas Rick bought a new guitar, figuring Santa was too cheap to get him one. Upon the realization that they were improving they decided to change their name.Thus the Sam and Max inspired and pez induced Lagomorphs sprung forth, like Minerva, full grown from her fathers head. Immediately they set about writing songs of mindbending importance. And if they looked hard enough, they might even be able to find them. Judah has a sneaking suspicion that they may be lurking under the bed.
Spring '97: The search for truth, a bassist and a drummer continued. Rick graduated from highschool a year and a half early and put all his time into writing new material and generally being a nuisance. The band acquired a new chorus pedal and a new amp; each of which inspired numerous songs. The spring was good.
Jun. 13, '97: The Łagomorphs learned HTML. This momentous event allowed the band to bring this site to you. Even if you are in Alabama.
Summer '97: The addition of a four track recording device and multiple new members of the band allowed serious recording to take place. Responding to a newspaper ad the band went from a duo to a quintet. The CAT began to do the primary song writing for the band despite his long time dispute with frontman Rick and tendencies towards evil. The Space Rabbit's sonic mastery aided greatly as he took over the job of actually playing all the instruments for the band and doing other generally sound techniciany stuff (roadie). Baggins was already there but answered the ad anyways. He's just cool like that. And in an internationally acclaimed return to the lime light after years of hiding Elvis agreed to manage the band.
Fall '97: The Łagomorphs success from the summer was abruptly halted during the autumn months as a conspiracy that rocked the nation forced the band to dismiss Elvis from his management duties. Both Rick and Judah were able to, by various shady and probably less than legal means, acquire a large amount of new guitar pedals. Rick got a job which allowed the obtainance of lots of other new and nifty gear while Judah did his best to ignore school while still attending. Elvis was killed sometime during the October months by Squirrel Radicals loyal to Baggins. After a time of mourning the band spent the rest of the day getting hopped up on pez and caffiene to forget the incident and went back to recording. A variety of songs were written by the band and have found their way into the repertoire.
Winter '98: Recording progressed, life went on, and the band discovered the excellent joys of Punk Music. El Nino stole baggins' soul but later sold it back for $1.17. For his birthday Judah Acquired his second strat and was much pleased by it. At some point Judah's feline Melchi became the bands manager to replace the long lost Elvis. His fascist techniques for getting the band to record have proved relatively succesful as the rush to put out an album before the apocalypse. Unfortuanetly, fate decreed that Elvis manage the band and it was discovered that Melchi was, in fact, possessed by The King. In the rainy month of january on a blustery saturday morning Rick and Judah held up a guitar store and obtained for Rick yet another guitar. His first Strat. It was pink. It was good. About a month after that the band purchased a nice little Fender Duosonic as a way of expressing their feelings on the problem of world hunger. Somewhere during this time they bought some more pedals.
Spring '98 Still searching for a drummer, be he human or robotic, the band continued to record tracks for the tentatively titled album Fuck Bands that Sound like Pearl Jam ( Fuck Pearl Jam ). The band auditioned about three bassists and even played with a couple of them for awhile but alas none of them were meant to be. The idea of doing a "gig" was ultimately rejected because it was too much work.
Summer '98: Much money was spent in research at the local used record store as the band put countless hours into their exhaustive search for ways to make the perfect album. The heat progressed and the band followed suit. In the course of one week The Sojourn was revamped. The band got a car and got to quit lugging amps everywhere via skateboards. And if that's not enough they were able with a little financial help from their managers to obtain a drum set of sorts and Space Bunny was kicked up from roadie to drummer. A number of songs have been recorded now with a drum track somewhere in the mix and the songs are sounding better than ever. Finally they unveiled the mega rock hit album Debaser, whose great reviews should have catapulted the band to superstardom, but somehow didn't.
Fall '98 (current): The Łagomorphs begin recording a host of new and different songs, bolstered on by the over thirteen sales of Debaser. Their electronic super-robotic stereophonic drummer becomes disillusioned by his inability to play live shows, so as always the band is in search of a rhythm section. Your donation is of course welcome.

One of our coolest teachers and possibly the reason that the Łagomorphs exist at all, Mr Hatalsky, passed away. We will never forget him, though we've long forgotten what he taught us. We hope he's happy and that they buried him with the overhead projector he so loved. The Łagomorph web page is dedicated to his memory. And that stupid hat he always wore.