the doosies

The doosies were formed in 1994 when long time music partners King & Pollard began living together in a haunted apartment on Westland Ave in Boston. The two had played in 2 other bands together previously while still in Southbury, CT ( M.F.P. & Chapter Eleven ). Pollard was at Emerson and King was at Northeastern, the two could not ignore the itch to play any longer and began to make plans for a new band. Andrew recommended lead guitarist Keller McGuinness , a guy from the dorms who he had played with twice, but was walked out on by both times. Keller recruited his new roommate, also a Northeastern student, Brian Vance to play drums. The band began to practice in Brian and Keller's basement apartment and soon had enough material to record a full length album. The album was recorded by Brian McTernan at his Salad Days Studio and was entitled "Lil' Hooey". The album was released as a cassette only version and was technically the first release from Big Wheel Recreation. From here, the band began to play lots and lots of shows all over NY and MA. Highlights include; A fashion show at the Avalon for Geoffrey B. Small with The Vehicle Birth, an outdoor show at Northeastern in honor of Deaf Awareness Week, a rickety stage in the parking lot of a Napa, and a boiling hot library that not a soul set foot in at BU Party for Grad students (the band was paid $500.00 and 4 Lobster dinners.) The doosies soon attracted the attention of an Entertainment Lawyer named Patricia Jones and began producing a series of 4 song demo tapes directed at the courtship of majors. The band played several successful showcases, but could never seem to close the deal. (The 4 songs featured on the player above were the final and finest recordings by the band and were done with Darron Burke at the short lived SuperSonic Studios in Cambridge) The doosies were also recruited as the 1st artists for local Boston Imprint Espo Records, who released a 7" of the bands, "Fat Foot". Soon after, the doosies released the highly collectable split 7" with their sister band, SLEPT. The band was also featured on the Big Wheel Recreation Comp entitled, "They Came From Massachusetts." After 4 years together, the doosies had accomplished a great deal "artistically", but found a market unwilling to embrace their brand of Metal driven, power-pop-rock. In 1998, Vance announced that he was moving back to Virginia after graduation and ultimately departed from the band. The remaining three members recruited drummer Jonathan Gorman and changed their name to the control group .