Toucan Slam

Toucan Slam was based in Olney, Illinois, Southeast of Springfield, just outside of Robinson, almost a 4 hour trip by car to Chicago. Despite their distance, Toucan Slam became a semi-regular at the Fireside Bowl in the mid to later 1990's.

Before releasing the one album that they alone were on in 1996 off of Shazam Records, a 4 song 7" EP titled "You Can Take the Bottle Out of Olney but You Can't Take Olney Out of the Bottle," they first released an 8 song demo split on CD with Mister Smarty Pants (another band from Olney) in 1994 titled "Olneycore," also through Shazam. Later they released another split in 1997, this time with The 4 Squares out of St. Charles, a 12-song full-length LP album titled Doin' Stuff with Roy Scherer through Shazam/Quincy Shanks. A second press on blue marble vinyl was issued the same year, but only featured 2 instead of 6 Toucan Slam songs; 8 tracks in total. Again in that same year a third press with the original 12 tracks, 6 and 6, was released on CD; all via Shazam. They also appeared on at least several compilations.

Part of their Chicago fan base may have had something to do with their association with Oblivion, who also wrote a song titled "Olney", about Olney, Illinois in which they reference Toucan Slam.

Members
Drums – Brooke Waxler

Guitar – Shane Grinder

Guitar, Vocals – Mike Rauch

Vocals, Bass – Josh Houchin

Production/Recording accredited to Chuck Uchida of No Empathy, etc.