The Dispute Between The Hybrid Squirrels and Trout Records
Brandon Beaver takes the Trout Records incident into his own hands:
Trout
Records,
If this is the same "Dodgem" punk band that is
responsible for the creation of "Trout Records", I stumbled across your ramshackle website this
afternoon, only to find a
ridiculous claim that the Hybrid Squirrels were
featured as a member of
your artist roster! This situation was especially
confusing for me,
being a founding member of the band and the creator
of the Hybrid
Squirrels Totally Official Website. My question is:
Why the hell does
Trout Records think that the infamous Hybrid
Squirrels are on their
label? We've had no communication with you regarding
this mysterious and
non-existant contract. We've never even seen or
heard of you at all
before. We know nothing about "A Load of Old Trout".
I was shocked and
appalled to find that a flase claim about the Hybrid
Squirrels was in
effect all across the world wide web. And who are
these other acts
supposedly on your label? "Lud!krus"? What the fuck?
Whoever made up
that bullshit name was either the biggest dumbass in
the world, the
least creative person in the world, or a relatively
dumb bastard who
lives in a cave. None of the links to the other
artists even worked. Do
they even exist? I have my doubts! I demand an
explanation for this
ridiculous claim immediately!
BRANDON BEAVER
THE HYBRID SQUIRRELS
Luke Davies responds promptly:
The Trout Records website still exists from 5 years
ago??????
Surely not - but I do, sumwhere in my
posession from many years ago have a demo tape of a
band by the name of the Hybrid Squrrels from many
years ago!!!!! It was errrrr, no comment!!!!!!!
Actually Trout came and went, the comp never came out,
Dodgem split up, and this is my e-mail address that
only came into being long after that period of my life
- cool that U got here tho!!!!!!!!
I went onto start up a REAL indie record label in the
end - LaStMinuteWinner, and we have just signed a band
who have ahd airplay on Radio 1 the biggest radio
station in the UK!!!!
I still cant believe the site still exists - this is
awesome as fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude - how has the Hybrid Squirrels life gone since
98???
Luke D (Dodgem/LastMinuteWinner)
As it turns out, several years ago Robb Rodent and Ben Squirrel were sent lyrics about a guy and some Twinkies along with a request to put the words to some mind-blowing punk music. They did so successfully for the little known track, "The Legend of St. Hermie", which according to Davies was less than desirable. The song was forgotten forever, and as far as we know, Davies posesses the only copy in existence. Lud!krus was unavailable for comment
