Weird discovery here while bopping around Youtube.  The Squids were founded in 1989,  they own the name.  We are talking the LaTour/Spatafora Squids from Chicago.  It seems that EVERY garage band from California has used the name "The Squids"  at one time or another roughly since 2008 as far as I can tell.  These are NOT Squids tribute or cover bands either.  Maybe this is where the original confusion started.  To research The Squids,  please tag "LaTour",  "Spatafora",  and "Chicago" and i believe this will become crystal clear to anyone investigating "The Squids".  I find this humorous but I'd bet that this slack in research is how "The Squids" may have been forced to merge with "Latour" after the original accusations of being a "garage band".  Dennis Brown might get a chuckle out of this too.