The Dangling Units - Revision history

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	'''The Dangling Units''' were a short-lived band featuring future members of [[Happy Toons]] [[Insane War Tomatoes]] and [[Out of Order]].		'''The Dangling Units''' were a short-lived band featuring future members of [[Happy Toons]] [[Insane War Tomatoes]] and [[Out of Order]].


	== Members ==		== Members ==
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	* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=1061.msg4955#msg4955 Devon's CPP post about Dangling Units]		* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=1061.msg4955#msg4955 Devon's CPP post about Dangling Units]

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	[[Category:Western Suburbs]]		[[Category:Western Suburbs\|Dangling Units, The]]
	[[Category:Out Of Order]]		[[Category:Out Of Order\|Dangling Units, The]]

Gantry: Kevin's history

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Kevin's history

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	'''The Dangling Units''' were a short-lived band featuring members of [[Happy Toons]] and [[Out of Order]].		'''The Dangling Units''' were a short-lived band featuring future members of [[Happy Toons]] [[Insane War Tomatoes]] and [[Out of Order]].


	== Members ==		== Members ==

	* [[Kevin Folta]] - Vocals		* [[Kevin Folta]] - Vocals/Bass
	* ~~???~~ - Guitar		* [[Chris Pawola]] - Guitar
			* [[Mike Byrne]] - Bass
	* [[Devon Brock]] - Drums		* [[Devon Brock]] - Drums

			== History by Kevin Folta ==

			Dangling Units started in [[1981]] with a 4-track demo. The first songs were "You Suck", "First AIDS", "He's My Hero", "Skid Marks", and "Blow My Brains Out". The first shows were a guitar-bass combo with a drum machine, that was Kevin Folta and Chris Pawola. Soon after Mike Byrne started playing bass and KF moved to vocals. When Devon Brock joined the group played a few shows, recording the demo including "You Can Only Be Castrated Once" and "Barbeque Bop".

			The songs reeked of teenage angst with a heavy dose of self criticism and teen sexual undertones. Many remember shows where the crowd was pelted with hot dogs and turkey. Costuming and props were also common. The music was muddy punk rock with Chris adding searing guitar solos atypical of hardcore music at the time.

			Shortly after Devon went on to Out of Order, Kevin and Mike started Insane War Tomatoes and Chris went on to become a music teacher at a religious school.

	== History by Devon Brock ==		== History by Devon Brock ==

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2007-06-03T17:24:07Z

OOO category

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2007-06-03T17:12:26Z

spelling on Kevin's name

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	'''The Dangling Units''' were a short-lived band ~~as a side project among~~ members of [[Happy Toons]] and [[Out of Order]].		'''The Dangling Units''' were a short-lived band featuring members of [[Happy Toons]] and [[Out of Order]].


	== Members ==		== Members ==

	* [[Kevin ~~Faltas~~]] - Vocals		* [[Kevin Folta]] - Vocals
	* ??? - Guitar		* ??? - Guitar
	* [[Devon Brock]] - Drums		* [[Devon Brock]] - Drums

Gantry: initial page

2007-06-03T17:10:48Z

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'''The Dangling Units''' were a short-lived band as a side project among members of [[Happy Toons]] and [[Out of Order]].

== Members ==

* [[Kevin Faltas]] - Vocals
* ??? - Guitar
* [[Devon Brock]] - Drums

== History by Devon Brock ==

Dangling Units was a short-lived band. I can't remember if we were a three piece or a four piece. I played Drums and Kevin Faltas ran vocals. The other member or members I don'tr recall. I only remember doing one show with them - opening for the [[Effigies]] at the West End after the Mother's Day Peace March at Grant Park. We grilled hot dogs on stage and distributed them to the hungry crowd. I used turkey leg bones for drumsticks, wore a shark-skin suit and a nazi helmet. Kevin recently reminded me that at that show I set up several thousand plastic army men on the drums. He said it took me several hours to complete and about 3 seconds to knock it down. Dangling Units carried on for a bit after I left to focus more on OOO.

== History by [[Brooks Smith]] ==

Dangling Units was an actual band with some notoriety in the western suburbs. They had a local hit titled "Floating Down a River in a Hefty Bag" that got airplay on [[WNUR]] and a couple of suburban radio shows. It was headed up by my buddy Kevin Folta who joined Happy Toons as a second guitarist toward the end of our run and was also a founding member of the band [[Insane War Tomatoes]]. Kevin is now a head in the Microbiology Department at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

== External Links ==

* [http://chicagopunkpix.com/forum/index.php?topic=1061.msg4955#msg4955 Devon's CPP post about Dangling Units]

[[Category:Bands]]
[[Category:Western Suburbs]]