This was another one-shot project, it was simply The Pranes without Karen Beall (vox). We had gotten a gig playing a party off 13th Street in the student ghetto with some of the other usual suspects (I think Young Pioneers and Mutley Chix played) and for some reason Karen didn't want to do the gig so the other three of us said "fine." We rehearsed a time or two, playing some of the songs instrumentally and a couple with Chris singing (I think). We also cobbled together covers of Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" and Psychic Violents' "Halfway House" (which we played halfway slow and, in retrospect, halfway suckily -- my apologies to the Psychic Violents). The gig was fun and low-pressure, and I remember having a really good feeling about it even though Chris broke guitar strings on soemthing like three separate occasions, forcing John and I to play our elevator-music "time-to-change-the-guitar-string" bass-and-drums instrumental, which was informally called "Cool Island Breezes." There were a lot of people and they seemed to enjoy themselves. I think we played first, so we were able to get our gear put away and then kick back for the rest of the party. I got to sing "Sweet Leaf" and the Psy Vi song, which was fun. The band name "Yucky Spit" referred to the situation wherein a person coughs up disgusting brown or black-flecked phlegm as a result of chronic marijuana smoking. Or so I've been told. Tom Nordlie