College radio breeds good music. It all began at a party thrown by our now archrival band (one of the many bands coming out of WMUC-FM). Ben Weisholtz and Jakuta decided then to put together a project. After a few drum and bass jam sessions Zach Richardson showed up one day with his Moog It was quite a Krautastic day, but Ben was not into the whole Krautorock thing, so Zach started playing the guitar. We began talking to the ex-music director at the station, David Malitz, who was also interested in putting something together. And that was that.
After a couple weeks we had three songs, all written by Zach, but still no name. Sitting around one night at our friend's house we decided upon The Moriomotos (this discussion was very painful to say the least since it lasted three and a half hours and until Zach blurted out the Morimotos, The Hairy Penises was the winner). After three months of practice we recorded our four song demo (featuring Go Home, She's Hot, Pick Up,and Close Your Eyes and Sleep).
Unfortunately Ben left the following summer to sell ice cream in New Jersey and the band was no more. David & Zack now play in The Fake Accents and Jakuta has a solo project Jakuta & Carl.
You can still purchase a compilation called Live On Third Rail Radio by contacting Jakuta. The comp features "I Don't Know." You can also hear them in mp3 form:
She's Hot
Pick Up
All The Squares Go Home
Radio (live)