Lucy's Fur Coat

Lucy's Fur Coat formed in San Diego in 1992 around rhythm guitarist and main songwriter Mike Santos, who sang lead at first before the band decided it needed a showier frontman and brought in Charlie Ware within the year. Tony Sanfilippo was on guitar, Rob Brown on bass and Scott "Scoots" Bauer on drums, and with Ware flailing around the stage like a man being electrocuted, they became one of the biggest draws in town.

Relativity Records signed them and put out Jaundice in 1994, a slab of heavy, churning grunge that shows off the band's muscle, and they toured the United States and Canada hard behind it. "Treasure Hands" became the song Southern California radio latched onto, a thick-riffed, big-chorused thing that still sounds like a sweaty club show.

Then the business side soured. Bauer left, Scott Clark took the drum stool, and the band felt Relativity never really got behind them, so they broke up briefly just to get out of the contract. They regrouped in 1998 for How to Survive an Air Crash, released by SRH Records, carried on as a four-piece after Santos left, and split again when the major labels looked but never signed. Reunion shows have kept flickering on over the years, and the members have scattered into a web of other bands, among them Pumphouse, the Scramblers and Midnight Rivals.

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