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.............. IMF formed in the spring of 1989, with the original lineup of George Boswell as singer and guitarist, Zac Webb on Bass, and Jeff Weirheim on Drums. By the end of the year they'd decided to put Jeff on guitar to free up George as a front man, and recruited Erik Peterson to play drums. They recorded their first demo "Corkscrew Pain" in January of 1990, They played a number of parties, and did their first club show at McGreggors later that winter as an opener for Out Of Order. In the following spring, due to some tension between band members George left, which is when I was asked to join as his replacement. We started playing as many shows as we possibly could. We played such clubs as Medusa's, Thirsty Whale, McGreggors, Avalon, Fotch's and The Outhouse in Lawrence KS. We played with some great bands too, like Smoking Popes, Pink Lincolns, Sloppy Seconds, Ultraman, Apocalypse Hoboken, Naked Raygun, Jaw Box, 8-bark, Pegboy, etc. We released a demo in 1990 called "Stregnth Speed and Beauty" and a 7'EP on Underdog Records called "Brother Flywheels Revenge". In the spring of 1991 Jeff left to go into the airforce, and Mike Skroch a.k.a. Scratch joined on as the new guitarist. Towards the end of that summer we did a recording in Steve Albini's basement studio, but before we had a chance to release it, Zac joined forces with Jim Coleo from Naked Raygun in a band called Mothertrucker. Since Zac was the only original IMF member at that time, the rest of us decided to call it quits. A few months later, Erik started working with a guitarist named Jim Bronson, and they were looking for other musicians to do a band called The Hidden. Mothertrucker broke up, so Zac joined them, and then I followed. A couple months into that band Jim quit, so we called Scratch, and it was IMF all over again. I stayed with The Hidden for about a year, and then was replaced by Brian McNally. The Hidden continued on for a few years following that. Recently we've all gotten back in touch with each other, and decided that all the old videos, and audio tapes should be preserved on disk. This lead to me wanting to set up this MySpace profile. We were only around for a short time. But most of the memories we have from that time are good. -Paulhttp://www.skepticsremainunconvinced.com/IMF_home.htmI remember IMF (part 1)

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Member Since: 11/28/2006
Band Members: 1st lineup (1989)-George Boswell-Vocals and Guitar; Zac Webb-Bass; Jeff Weirheim-Drums,2nd lineup(1989-1990) George Boswell-Vocals; Jeff Weirheim-Guitar; Zac Webb-Bass; Erik Peterson-Drums,3rd lineup(1990-1991) Paul McLennon-Vocals; Jeff Weirheim-Guitar; Zac Webb-Bass; Erik Peterson-Drums,4th lineup(1991)-Paul McLennon-Vocals; Mike Skroch(Scratch)-Guitar; Zac Webb-Bass; Erik Peterson-Drums,
Record Label: Underdog
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Jamphetamines.com

Erik from IMF has recently started a new site called Jamphetamines.com. Jamphetamines.com is a free online indie music community for musicians and fans. It exists to give musicians another free promot...
Posted by IMF on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:11:00 PST

How Punk Rock Saved My Life

     I posted this blog awhile back on my own personel page. I felt it was relevent to this page, so here's the repost.   Alot of things have had me thinking back on my life l...
Posted by IMF on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:06:00 PST

New Web Site!!!!

Mike Scroch from IMF has recently set up a new web-site which allows people to download all of our studio recordings. The first demo has George Boswell singing, the rest is me (Paul). &...
Posted by IMF on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:01:00 PST

Drummer Needed

Me, and my friends Mark and Joel, are putting together a new band, and need a drummer. Below is the add Mark has been circulating. Looking for Drummer for Chicago suburb (Bensenville) based Punk Proj...
Posted by IMF on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:05:00 PST

More To Come!

  Me and the rest of IMF, Along with Brian from The Hidden, have been doing our best to get ahold of as much IMF, and Hidden stuff, that we can. With in the next week or two, I should have some s...
Posted by IMF on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:12:00 PST