The band gained a reputation for wacky stage antics, and eventually garnered enough attention to sign to Columbia Records.
This record compared with Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, and Pere Ubu.
Sam Whiteside and Espy Geisler designed the cover art and most of the artwork on the inside of their album Music to Eat.
Music to Eat gained a significant cult following, and was re-released on CD in 1996 with several minutes of additional material that had been edited from the vinyl release.
[2][3] The Hampton Grease Band held their first reunion concert on June 2, 2006, at the Variety Playhouse in Little Five Points, a commercial area in Atlanta, Georgia.