Under the pretense of making worthwhile rock music, Clay Tarver and Matt Sweeney started playing guitars together in late 1992. For eight months, they played without a drummer or a bass player. After a while most of their friends figured Tarver were just saying they were in a band so they could get drunk a couple of times a week in peace (they were not incorrect; the primary purpose of Chavez is to provide a worry-free drinking environment for its members. )
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Under the pretense of making worthwhile rock music, Clay Tarver and Matt Sweeney started playing guitars together in late 1992. For eight months, they played without a drummer or a bass player. After a while most of their friends figured Tarver were just saying they were in a band so they could get drunk a couple of times a week in peace (they were not incorrect; the primary purpose of Chavez is to provide a worry-free drinking environment for its members. )
Enter the diabolical James Lo of Live Skull and Wider fame, who was not invited to play, but offered his services nonetheless. As Lo was the first person in eight months to express any interest whatsoever in what they were doing (the very mention of a band with ex-members of Bullet LaVolta and Skunk produced chortles, guffaws or aggressive indifference from most New York rock types), and as the words “James Lo” and “Bad Ass” are synonymous, his request to join the rock outfit was met with an enthusiastic “eeerase.”
Utterly free of anyone’s expectations, high or otherwise, they contentedly dicked around in their rehearsal room. Along with friend Davey Hoskins, they recorded two songs in October of ‘93 so they could “hear what we were doing.” Masters holder and Hollywood swinger Scott Masciarelli, Sweeney’s long time pal, moved to New York in March of ‘94 and joined the men of Chavez as Bass Player in an effort to hinder a budding film career. Two weeks after Masciarelli joined, the band started playing live. Seeing (another) chance to blow huge amounts of cash, Matador pressed the aforementioned tape into a 7” single which they released summer 1994.
