Squirrel Bait

Squirrel Bait was a punk rock band formed in the early 1980's in Louisville, KY, by guitarist David Grubbs and bassist Clark Johnson. The group's first demo tape, released under the name Squirrelbait Youth, featured drummer Rich Schuler and saw Grubbs handle both guitar and vocals. The group's second demo featured drummer Britt Walford and vocalist Peter Searcy and saw the group move away from the hardcore sounds of the first demo. 1985's self-titled EP received much critical accalim and saw Ben Daughtry take over the drums while Brian McMahan join as second guitarist (two of the EP's tracks, which feature Walford on drums, were taken directly from the band's second demo). The same line-up recorded the band's only LP, 1987's "Skag Heaven". The group broke up after its release, with the split owing as much to personal and musical differences within the band as it did to Johnson and Grubbs' decision to leave Louisville for college. Grubbs and Johnson would reunite in Bastro while McMahan and Walford, who, while never in Squirrel Bait at the same time, had played together in various bands since grade school, went on to form Slint. In the mid 1990s, Grubbs reissued the self-titled EP and "Skag Heaven" on his short-lived Dexter's Cigar imprint.
==Links to Peel==
Peel discovered the group in the mid-80's via the Homestead label and would often play their material on his shows, including when the band for one release were called Bork!. After the group split, some members later formed Slint and Bastro, who both of them were later played by Peel and also whose tracks entered the Festive Fifty in the early 90's.
==Shows Played==
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*10 September 1986: Kid Dynamite (7") Homestead
*13 September 1986 (BFBS): Kid Dynamite (7") Homestead
*22 October 1986: Slake Train Coming (7" - Kid Dynamite) Homestead
*04 February 1987: Virgil's Return (LP - Skag Heaven) Homestead
*09 February 1987: Black Light Poster Child (LP - Skag Heaven) Homestead
*10 February 1987: Choose Yr Poison (LP - Skag Heaven) Homestead
*22 February 1987 (BFBS): Kick The Kat (album - Skag Heaven) Homestead
*24 February 1987: Tape From California (LP - Skag Heaven) Homestead
*01 March 1987 (BFBS): Choose Yr Poison (album - Skag Heaven) Homestead
*04 March 1987: Slake Train Coming (LP - Skag Heaven) Homestead
*27 February 1988 (BFBS): Tense / Earth Shattering
;Bork!
*26 January 1988: Gerard's Dick (shared 7" with Bob Mould And Those Pillowbiters - Motorola Cloudburst) The Pope Fanzine
*16 February 1988: Gerard's Dick (shared 7" with Bob Mould And Those Pillowbiters - Motorola Cloudburst) The Pope Fanzine
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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