There’s been much ado—countless articles, TV appearances galore, a
whole movie even—about pre-teen rockers
Unlocking the Truth. Which is
fine and all, but what if I told you there was
another band,
decades before, that were even younger, sold more records, toured extensively, and rode a wave of minor rock fame
all the way to high school?
It’s true. And if Unlocking the Truth knew what happened to ‘em after
the band broke up—a saga much grimmer than your average episode of VH1’s
Behind the Music—they’d find new hobbies.
Old Skull formed in Madison, Wisconsin when a couple of punk rock
dads—Vern Toulon (Missing Foundation) and Robin Davies (Tar
Babies)—decided to recruit their sons into the lucrative world of
indie-rock. Toulon’s kids JP and Jamie handled guitar/vocals and
keyboards respectively, and Davies’ stepson JP pounded the skins. They
“wrote” songs about hot dogs and AIDS (most people assume Toulon senior
composed the music, but the truth is lost in the mists of time) and
bashed ‘em out with impressive energy, if not finesse. Which was fine, I
mean, it was hardcore punk made by kids who were in the third-grade.
