[1] At this time, Earwig consisted of Lizard McGee on guitars and vocals, Chuck Palmer on drums and bassist Jeff Perkins.
With the release of this CD, Terry Lo and Jeff Perkins left the band and Rich Cefalo joined on bass for the nationwide tour.
The band toured the Midwest and east coast, eventually releasing a very limited, hand-pressed, early edition of Perfect Past Tense in late 1999 at a show in Columbus.
McGee moved to California in 2000 and released the widely available version of Perfect Past Tense on CD on LFM Records that same year.
Previously, when bassist Rich Cefalo moved to New York City and was unavailable, Matt Wagner (of LFM Band Preston Furman) sat in with Earwig on the bass in Athens, Ohio at Follett’s Bookstore.
Wagner also played bass during 1999 with the “LFM All-Stars” which included Justin Crooks on the drums, Brad Swinarski on keyboards and Lizard McGee on guitar and vocals.
During this time, McGee wrote many off the songs that would become the album Center Of The Earth (released on LFM Records in 2006), featuring Justin Crooks on drums and Matt Wagner on bass.
Directed, compiled, and edited by Allan Foster, the DVD features eight live performances, including the singles "Used Kids" and "Outro".
The song "Used Kids" is a literal re-telling of a fever dream about Y2K and Ron House (founding member of The Great Plains and Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments).
The album Gibson Under Mountain (LFM Records 2010) again features Justin Crooks on drums and Matt Wagner on Bass.
Earwig's debut album, Mayfeeder, brought the band to the top of the Columbus underground scene, being the catalyst of the greatness to come.
Despite the bitterness and melancholy evoked by some of Earwig's songs, ("Wounded Knee" and "Mink" come to mind), songwriting isn't necessarily a form of therapy for McGee.
[5] Five years after the release of their Mayfeeder album, Earwig resurfaced from the Columbus indie rock underground with 1999's "Perfect Past Tense".
Previously available as part of the group's 1994 live effort, Bored In Chicago (recently re-released on CD by McGee's own Lizard Family Music imprint), "Cinema East" reappears as a studio recorded version on this album.
[7] Earwig's fourth studio album, Center of the Earth contains one of the band's signature songs, the single "Used Kids", which ranked 15th on WWCD FM's "CD101 Top 101 of 2007".
Ron had a big baseball cap with a rebel flag patch on it and kept following me around with a copy of the Weekly World News with the picture of a mushroom cloud that has Jesus’ face in it.
In April, 2013, Earwig began self-recording a "science fiction rock opera" on a Mac laptop Pro Tools software engine.