Dave Latchaw (Dayvel) - Drums, keys, guitars, producer
Jon Vitas (weAponX) - Bass, guitars
Scott Stambaugh (Father Time) - Vocals, guitars, keys, songwriter
Jonny: Once upon a time there was a site called MP3com I was the 512th artist to join. At the time, there were only 2 people working in an office on the UCSD campus. One of them a Programmer, and the other a woman named Michelle whose job it was to get bands to sign up. For 2 years, nobody wanted to join the site. But from the time I added my band Social Spit as the 512th band and my Solo Projects “weAponX”, around 2 months, there had been 1500 more bands added. At the time, I had not played with Social Spit since 1993, but I had a bunch of songs that had never been released. I did fine in the Punk charts at MP3c. until poseur-punk bands pushed us out of the top 10. My own material never did well, and I would never buy ads, so mostly nobody ever heard it. Ironically, 5 years after Mp3c. closed its doors, Social Spit had our 30th anniversary, which has lasted 9 years. This was maybe summer of 97; I was asked to join the site also as a moderator to assist the site developer in finding problems, so I also acted as a Liaison between bands who had trouble uploading content to the site. I did this job until 1999.
It was during this time I met Scott, who called himself “Father Time”. His Modus Operandi was to piss off as many people as possible, in an attempt to get people to listen to his music. I had only heard rumors of this guy, so I decided, “well, I will give him a listen, but when I put his playlist into my MP3 player, I thought it was horrible. From this point, I prosecuted Father Time from MP3c to AMP3c and Garageband. MP3c and AMP3c were the only sites that paid artists. But we had some great Flame Wars that spanned at least 3 sites at a time. Finally, I was just looking through the Trademark Database and I came across an Entry for “Father Time” and discovered his name. That blew all up so I started leaving him alone. David I knew as “Dayvel” who made Christmas Midi every year.
Dave (drums, keys, guitars, producer): Dave is a quiet guy except when banging on his drums, so he passed on adding his side of the story to this bio. But we can say he was in some SF bands in the early 80’s scene.
Scott: The road to the internet band Negative Tendencies has been long. I’ve known Jon and Dave for a long time, had worked with both, previously. Jon, more known to me as weAponX, is a guy I first ran into on the mp3c bbs, he was a moderator at the time. My friends and I were involved in a sort of clan war with this group of folks led by a country artist named Mickey Dean and the ever-present PaisleyFace. I tell this part cause it led to meeting Weap. We were pounding away at the control of the community exerted by Mickey Dean’s group and he called in this rapper supposedly to handle us named Crack Emcee. I listened briefly to Crack’s music and didn’t really take him seriously. In a discussion with Mickey I said something about him bringing his boy in to fight me. Thing is though, I thought Crack was a white guy and they jumped all over me for calling him a boy, saying I’m racist. This is where weAponX came in and literally went on full attack on me for months. He even hacked my website and gave my real name and home address to some of my enemies which blew my mind. Anyway it started to ease up, Weap got tired of fighting with me I suppose, and I released a song called Girl, Turn Yourself Loose on Me. Weap hated it at first but I think it kind of grew on him, became a love/hate sort of thing. Not long after that, weap and I worked together moderating the popular Mosh Pit forum and had an understanding since then I think. Awhile later weap produced my song All Along (which I still consider one of my best songs to this day) and the song got enough plays to be a sitewide #1 All Genres at Artist Launch. Unfortunately at the time that site was corrupt and we found out from one of the site admins that we easily had the most plays but we peaked at #4 because they manually put 3 of Ana Lovelis’ songs above ours. Weap is a great musician, part of Social Spit, whose claim to fame was getting their album banned at Walmart cause of the cover.
Dave Latchaw I met as DayVel who was best known for selling a ton of Christmas music he did on keyboards at a site called Java. My first encounters with DayVel were in a yahoo chat, I remember him as a gruff guy who wasn’t that nice to me, probably cause of my outspokenness. He was always in these communities and once he heard a song of mine he liked called I Believe In Karma and offered to help me make a better version of it. He later did the same with Heads Turn which was also very popular, they both got to #1 on the sites I was involved with at the time. Later he helped with my Sex Pistols homage called Blameless and took that song to the next level. So I was friends with these guys on facebook and knew Dave loved to drum and asked if he’d be interested in a new project with me. Anyway Dave agreed and suggested we ask weap, he had worked with him before also, and I thought it was a good idea and did so, thus our band was born. Not long after this I was given a timeout on some music forum for dissing some artist and got a note from the moderator saying "Please control your negative tendencies" and this amused me enough to buy the domain.
I sort of gave up many times but you only ever get anywhere with patience, finally I started to get mixes of the first 6 songs I put up for the group. Btw, all but one (Take My Love) of the songs were from the late 80s to early 90s. I saved them thinking they were kind of special songs because I didn’t really trust my own production, always thought someday I would record them in the studio. There was a long pause before our magnum opus Ego Draino finally came out to acclaim from our facebook friends. Anyway I am thrilled with the resulting CD.
