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Severe Tire Damage is mentioned prominently, right next to those gleaming spikes. |
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 1987 |
The band Zero releases a song titled "Severe Tire Damage" on their album, "Here Goes Nothin'". |
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 1989 |
In one scene two guys listen to a tape of their favorite rock band: Severe Tire Damage.
It was not one of our songs. |
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N.W.A.October 27, 1989 |
Using the name "N.W.A.", our band makes its first performance. |
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NigelsJanuary 20, 1990 |
The band changes its name 4 times in one night, still not calling itself Severe Tire Damage. |
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Box of RocksFebruary 24, 1990 |
The band goes by another name for this gig. |
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 1990 |
By Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons, excerpt from panel text in volume 3:
". . . condemning the growing popularity of the mutant musical group Severe Tire Damage."
The artwork bears unusual resemblance to the real band members. |
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Oil SupplyAugust 11, 1990 |
The band goes by another name for this gig. |
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Severe Tire DamageSeptember 22, 1990 |
This is the first time that the band performs under the name Severe Tire Damage. |
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The Vampire LestatOctober 31, 1990 |
The band uses a different name for a Halloween performance. |
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RU-486December 31, 1990 |
The band continues to use different names to be topical and provocative. |
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The Creeping FeaturesOctober 31, 1991 |
The band uses a different name for a Halloween performance. |
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September, 1992 |
Excerpt from "Real Men Don't Bond", by Bruce Feirstein:
". . . Real Men still keep waiting for a band to be named either Republican Guard or Severe Tire Damage."
Real men need wait no longer. |
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 June 24, 1993 |
This is the date that Severe Tire Damage makes the first livestreamed performance on the Internet MBone.
Performing from the patios of Xerox PARC, the broadcast is seen and heard live as far away as Australia.
MBone engineering by Ron Frederick and Steve Deering of the Computer Science Lab at Xerox PARC. |
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1993 |
In one scene, Robin Williams' character pretends to be a former vocalist for
Severe Tire Damage. He was never in the band. |
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1993 |
In the mockumentary, fictional production designer Peter Garbone explains his affiliation with the two directors of the movie,
by their previous production of music videos of little known bands like "Bjorn Again" and "Severe Tire Damage". |
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September 1994 |
The infamous article that proposes Severe Tire Damage's drummer as "rock's smartest".
If he's so smart, how come he's dead? |
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November 18, 1994 |
The band returns to the Internet MBone to open for the Rolling Stones.
Broadcasting from the Digital Systems Research Center in Palo Alto,
Severe Tire Damage plays both before the 7pm PST StoneCast and again at 8:05pm PST, after their performance.
Audio engineering was by Ken Beckman,
MBone engineering was by Lance Berc,
both of Digital's Systems Research Center.
There are many comments about Severe Tire Damage's Mcast.
If you were there send mail!
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November 18, 1994 |
Mentions MCasts by Severe Tire Damage. |
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November 19, 1994 |
Covers the Rolling Stones MCast and the Severe Tire Damage opening act. |
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November 19, 1994 |
Documents the first MCast by Severe Tire Damage. |
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November 20, 1994 |
Page 1 coverage of Severe Tire Damage's opening act for the Rolling Stones. |
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November 21, 1994 |
How the Rolling Stones caught Severe Tire Damage. Coins the now-famous epithet "Furry Palo Alto Geeks". |
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November 22, 1994 |
Coverage of Severe Tire Damage's opening act for the Rolling Stones. |
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November 28, 1994 |
Front page coverage of Severe Tire Damage's opening act for the Rolling Stones. |
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December 5, 1994 |
Mentions Severe Tire Damage and the Rolling Stones in one sentence, comparing them favorably. |
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December 9, 1994 |
Passing mention of Severe Tire Damage opening for the Rolling Stones. |
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March 20, 1995 |
Fortune smiles on the drummer as Mark mentions Severe Tire Damage. |
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May 2, 1995 |
Coverage of the band, including interviews with bass and drummer. |
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June 1995 |
Mentions how the band opened for the Rolling Stones. |
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August 1995 |
Article by drummer Mark which mentions Severe Tire Damage's weekly MCasts. |
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September 13, 1995 |
Describes the first MCast by Severe Tire Damage, and how the Rolling Stones did it later. |
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November 13, 1995 |
The show pits Mark Weiser against the antiWeiser forces from MIT. At least they let him drum. |
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1996 |
Severe Tire Damage's tech crew plays with toys. MBone wizard Lance gets a virtual high five from Richard Hart. |
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1996 |
Asks "What was the first rock group to perform live on the Internet?" If you don't know the answer, stop reading this page. |
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1996 |
More band coverage, including the drummer's work. |
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May 26, 1996 |
Reprint of the computer bowl questions, including the $64,000 question: "What was the first rock group to perform live on the Internet?" |
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October 10, 1996 |
Passing mention of Severe Tire Damage playing for Korean television. |
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January 1997 |
During a 4-hour segment on computers, Severe Tire Damage featured prominently in 3 of them. The subsequent torrent of Korean fan mail has yet to abate. |
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January 10, 1997 |
The band closes a massive computer conference, playing a joint session in our largest gig ever. |
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February 17, 1997 |
An article about Mark Weiser fails to mention Severe Tire Damage until the bio at the end. |
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April 1997 |
Discusses the Severe Tire Damage performance at USENIX. |
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1997 |
Full article about the band, with pictures. Now don't you wish you could read Swedish? |
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1997 |
Guitarist and vocalist chat about Severe Tire Damage. |
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C|Net CentralMay 3, 1997 |
Severe Tire Damage provides an opening backdrop for a feature about Mark Manasse and his Millicent scheme for bilking the known universe out of their money. |
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May 1997 |
In an article about drummer Mark, a mention of the hazards of Severe Tire Damage. |
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July 26, 1997 |
Just another performance, but check out Severe Tire Damage's way-cool bass player. |
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September 8, 1997 |
Mark the drummer was invited to a technology/performance art festival in Austria. To warn their countrymen, they sent a video crew to a band dinner. Mark mentions Severe Tire Damage and shows his skills with a cell phone. |
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1997 |
An article mentions how the band eats at Beppos. And does it in German, to boot. |
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October 20, 1997 |
A reporter is amazed at how much sushi and saki the band can consume. |
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November 15, 1997 |
Front page coverage by Silicon Valley's best newspaper. |
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November 19, 1997 |
A segment about Severe Tire Damage's illustrious drummer. The band introduces and closes a segment on Mark Weiser, who speaks of calm computing. Of course, the band knows better. |
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November 21, 1997 |
Severe Tire Damage spends 35 minutes on the air with the world's best DJ: Rocket J. Squirrel. |
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December 15, 1997 |
Most geek bands are obscure, but Severe Tire Damage is the "house band of cyberspace". |
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January 6, 1998 |
Here's an article about Severe Tire Damage's drummer that offers a truly embarrassing photograph. |
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January 29, 1998 |
Severe Tire Damage breaks into commercial radio with a Spice Girls spoof. |
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February 2, 1998 |
Severe Tire Damage teaches bad habits to aspiring engineers. |
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June 23, 1998 |
Severe Tire Damage heads up a list of geek bands. |
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August 5, 1998 |
"Severe Tire Damage" is just another setup for a dumb joke. |
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1998 |
Alternative rock group They Might Be Giants releases a live album with the same name as our band. The nerve! |
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Feburary 16, 1999 |
Severe Tire Damage plays at "Windows Refund Day" and the singer makes rude comments about Microsoft and greed. |
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March 1, 2000 |
Severe Tire Damage elucidates to a horrified classroom. |
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March 10, 2006 |
In season 4, episode 15 (series episode 59), "Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist", Lieutenant Randy Disher temporarily quits the force and devotes himself full time to his high school garage band "The Randy Disher Project". The other band members disagree about the name of the band. One band member suggests "Severe Tire Damage" as a better name for the band. |
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June, 2008 |
In which we are accused of the demise of the recording industry through increased internet distribution. |
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July, 2014 |
Severe Tire Damage gets it's own page in the history books. |
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May 7, 2020 |
Now that we're merely trivia, a contestant on the game show, "Master Minds" is asked about our band. |
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August 19, 2022 |
Even the Chinese are curious about how we became so ridiculous. They interview us remotely. |
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October 7, 2022 |
A documentary on the Rolling Stones YouTube channel that describes how Severe Tire Damage scooped them on the Internet. |
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