Its members included bassist Mark Ibold, who later joined Pavement and Sonic Youth in 1992 and 2006, respectively.
[1][2] Ibold met the band while working at a restaurant in the East Village and performed on their album Struggling Electric and Chemical.
[5][6] They released a Kramer-produced 7" entitled "Is Big Leggy" on TeenBeat Records in 1989, followed by Geek Drip later that year and Struggling Electric and Chemical in 1990.
The Wharton Tiers-produced Struggling was released jointly by TeenBeat and Matador,[4] and opened with a cover of "Hip Priest" by The Fall, which was described by Greg Kot as "a mind-blowing masterpiece of corrosion and decay.
[8] Also that year, Gerard Cosloy stopped playing with the band as their stand-in bassist.