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This is the where things really started. The Other Version was the band that, after their high school graduations, became The Duckhills. The following is a short recollection by Chad Malone, the eventual drummer for The Other Version (that will be explained below), of those days and how things got rolling:

"It all started in the summer of '87, I was going to be a junior at Klein High School while Randy Grace, Benjamin McDonald and Jim Thompson were becoming seniors. Randy and Jim had a band called 'The Other Version.' Boy, Randy could play guitar. He was a mini Edge from U2. You have to remember, in the late eighties that was a very high compliment.... Ben and I had met in Drama class and were messing around one day when I found out he could sing. We hooked up and started a band called 'Organized Confusion.' However, the lure of Jim and Randy's talent was too much and Ben began moonlighting with Jim and Randy and their off-and-on drummer.

"One hot, sultry Houston morning, I got a call from Ben and Randy. It seemed their drummer balked out on a recording session and they needed a session drummer. I gladly said yes and they taught me the songs as we drove to the studio to record 'Revolving Light,' our first EP.... That was how the combo of Randy, Ben, Jim and Chad got together. Needless to say, Organized Confusion was pissed.... We carried on as The Other Version for a year as we all went to college and reformed again in '88... We recorded what was beginning to be our second album in Randy's own recording studio in his house.... We were beginning to experiment and have fun..."

	Revolving Light
	More TOV Recordings -- there are multiple versions <tee hee hee> of songs here, and all with a clear TOV vibe that shows signs of evolving into the sound that will appear on Spongecake. To me, I always find this stuff to be very similar to Litter...