Poolside

Guitarist Mike Wu, keyboardist Eric Diaz, and bassplayer J Claire Nau caroused while corn-fed teenagers who also liked to try out loud music within their parents’ northwestern Indiana garages. Near Chicago but compelled to donate to the vibrant San Franciscan grunge picture, the trio loaded it up, drove across nation, landed within the Bay Region and tried several stylistic and logistical mixtures, usually offering Wu and Nau in a single music group and Wu and Diaz in another. In 1993 the fun grunge Sidecar was created with longer-Frisco-based drummer DAve Ayer, who also performed and documented with Porch. By 1994, nevertheless, the sirens from the Gibraltar of Grunge, Portland, sang therefore sweetly towards the “parts” of pre-Poolside, each of them decided to progress the coastline and toss themselves in to the blend. Drummer Joe Fitzgibbon brought a lighter vibe towards the thick Poolside (as do Diaz’ Moog, which experienced once lent its tone of voice to the strange coos of amorous rodents within the Captain and Tennille’s dusty chestnut, “Muskrat Like”). Throughout a stint in Austin, Bong Weight records captured Poolside’s take action and solid Gin Blossoms’ songwriter Dave Bassett as maker of the debut recording, Indyglow. This well-known indie Stereolablike record became an instant Bay preferred, securing a complete touring routine for these mop-headed, bespectacled and perennially nineteen-year-old males from back around the farm.