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THE GECKOS
Years Playing 1993
Members:
Matt Silcock - guitar
Jeff "Val" Valenzuela - Vocals
Chad Steskal - drums
Mitch Kline - Bass
Releases:
The Geckos - 1993 - self rel cassette
Thistle - 1993 - Tiny Records
Members came from:
Members went to: Think , Opium Taylor
Matt Silcock 's list of essential Lincoln releases:
13 Nightmares - Shitride
Broadside Zine comp -- came with cassettes of Lincoln music (maybe there was only one?)
Sideshow - Eggplants and Sunspots
Mercy Rule - God Protects Fools
Linoma compilation
Novelty Yellow compilation (my vote for #1 Lincoln release of all time)
Greg Markel - I Would Die 4 U 7-inch
XXY - 7-inch
Filter /Caffiend - Split 7-inch
Opium Taylor - Boy-White City
Think - The Drift
Blandie Cosima 7-inch
Pablo's Triangle -- unreleased CDR, demo, album, whatever you wanna call it
The Black Dahlias -- Jawbone of an Ass (self-released very limited edition odds
& sods thing -- demos and live tracks -- defines them as a band better than
the 'studio' stuff did)
In addition to The Geckos , Matt was also in Opium Taylor , The Trendies , Think , The Black Dahlias , The Joe Krings Prog Inflation , Cheyntara , MCMS , Rise Up Beggar , The Tom Ficke Group , TV City , and probably a few others I'm forgetting, and currently lives in Chicago, where he was a member of Head of Femur.
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Credits
Built by Monolith Studio .
The band list comes from Star City Scene , the original Lincoln band list at starcityscene.com, now gone (the link is its copy in the Internet Archive).
Album covers, song titles, lineups and liner notes come from Yesterday Bands , an archive of bands from Nebraska’s past, where the recordings themselves are kept: every record here links to its page there to listen or download.