Skewbald/Grand Union

A short-lived task formed during Small Threat’s preliminary (and ultimately temporary) break up, Skewbald/Grand Union kept singer Ian MacKaye and drummer Jeff Nelson jointly, using their curious substance name deriving off their differing views of what things to contact the music group. MacKaye and Nelson initial worked jointly in the Teenager Idles before developing the seminal Small Threat, which continued hiatus in Sept 1981 when guitarist Lyle Preslar still left for university. MacKaye and Nelson met up with guitarist Eddie Janney — previously from the Untouchables — and bassist John Falls. They documented two songs for the self-titled solitary in November, however the the following month, MacKaye went on tour like a roadie for Dark Flag. Skewbald/Grand Union dropped from the wayside without ever having performed a live gig, and its own demise was guaranteed when Preslar came back and Small Threat re-formed in Apr 1982. MacKaye would later on continue to front side Embrace and Fugazi, while Janney performed in the Trust as well as the seminal emo music group Rites of Springtime, aswell as the shorter-lived One Last Want and Happy Proceed Licky. Nelson, for his component, shifted to gigs with Egg Hunt (once again with MacKaye), 3, as well as the Large Back Seats. In 1992, Dischord released Skewbald/Grand Union’s incredibly scant documented output like a self-titled, 7″ vinyl fabric solitary, and reissued it like a CD solitary in 1997.