Initially, Brian, Peter, and their drummer friend Greg Kulik briefly were part of a band called "The Salty Dogs."
Often appearing at Open-Mike Nights sponsored by Freedom High's literary-and-arts magazine PEN AND INK, Brian, Peter, and Aaron performed together in various combinations, sometimes covering Bowie tunes and sometimes (as "The Pants") featuring original songs often heavily influenced by Brian Wilson, Talking Heads, Bowie, and the Beatles.
(In these early days, Mark Cunningham, their eighth-grade English teacher at East Hills Middle School, helped initiate their love of the above masters.)
As of March 2008, The Teeth disbanded after their last tour with The Dead Trees, just after their performance at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
[5] In 2005, Moonrock Films created a documentary called Bones Grow: An Introduction to the Teeth[6] that contains a series of live performances and practice sessions of the band.