It all began like this:
"The Socks were born just three weeks ago, when the Litigators split up. When that happened, singer and harmonica abuser Jeremiah Kidwell, guitarist Jason Conkright and drummer Steve Gianello said "fuck it," spray-painted cute pink socks onto white T-shirts and wrote up a whole new batch of garage-burning tunes.
The Socks' debut was as thrilling as any Litigators show, with Kidwell cutting a Monty Pythonesque figure in white pants rolled up to reveal pink-and-black-striped stockings. As the similarly attired Conkright bashed out blues-punk riffs on his hollow-body axes and Gianello muscled the drums from under his Italian 'fro, Kidwell tore across the stage, singing his ass off and reducing the mic stand to scrap metal." - The Pitch, June 22, 2006
