Epstein - Permanent Winter Headcold (1996)

Open up the description for more details! (Edit: The band members have seen this vid and are looking to release some old footage they have. Now be nice and check out the other projects they've been in, especially the modern ones. They've also left their own comments below that I've hearted.) Official Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/album/174hSq... --- Epstein was an emo band from 1996-1998 made up of member Dave Forman, Ron Price, Wayne Ward, and Mike Gambone. (So, no, this has nothing to do with a certain financier who's last name was the same as this band's.) Their music is available on the Spotify link above and an archival Bandcamp here: https://archiescomeback.bandcamp.com/... They only had this one album and small two song EP, but additionally appeared on the Emo Diaries Chapter Three compilation in 1999. If you've heard of them before, it's probably from there or because of their future project. In 1999, the same members minus Gambone would release an album as The Beta Unit. Check it out here: https://archiescomeback.bandcamp.com/... Forman and Price went on to be in A Rocket Sent to You in the 2000s afterwards. This is where I learned of them. Check out their first album here, it's a banger:    • A Rocket Sent To You - Self Titled (2000) ...   (I'd link the most official release on the Bandcamp page up above again, but the tracks are all out of order for some reason.) Gambone was in The Bridge. According to their Wikipedia page, they were a jam band active from 2001 to 2011. I honestly never looked into them before this, and I'm not immediately finding any official place to hear their stuff, so I'll just link what he himself commented here:    • Bad locomotive by The Bridge   Ward was in The Courtesy Line, and indie band, from what looks to be 2006 to 2011 or so. They have a Spotify to listen to them there! https://open.spotify.com/artist/6GfGt... Price has continued making music since 2018 under the name Archie's Come Back. Those works should be all the non-legacy releases up on the same Bandcamp page from before: https://archiescomeback.bandcamp.com/ Gambone specifically was in quite a bit of things, so I'll also his Discogs page here. https://www.discogs.com/artist/414005... . I think of note would be the most recent one listed, Super City, which has been active since at least 2014: https://super-city.bandcamp.com/album... Also, since Ward mentioned him in his email, I'll also link The Beta Unit's drummer's, Kevin Shook, current band, the Dublin 5: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0RfxT... There might be other projects I've missed, so if you like what you hear, just start searching names and dive deeper into each member's personal history! --- Some details provided by Ward over email: Epstein took their name from the character Juan Epstein from the ’70s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. The band thought it was memorable and also thought it was funny that it sounded like the industrial metal band Rammstein while actually being named after a sitcom character. Dave gave an early demo of Deadbolt to Jimi Davies (of Jimmy's Chicken Shack) after one of Davies' shows and Epstein was later invited to join his label Fowl Records, Epstein being the most youthful band on the label. Epstein also submitted “Deadbolt” to SPIN magazine’s unsigned band competition and won the 1997 Alternative Rock category. https://books.google.com/books?id=Jq-... In 1999 after a series of line-up changes and a brief stint under the name "The Beta Unit" the band released their final album and parted ways. The band members still stayed active in the indie-music scene and contributed to various projects. Dave Forman and Ron Price formed A Rocket Sent to You releasing several albums and toured around the country. Mike Gambone pursued a music scholarship and, after graduating, toured around the world with his band The Bridge. Dave and Ron later moved out of the Maryland area, and A Rocket Sent to You, also known as ARSTY, went on hiatus. Wayne Ward and Mike Borlik (from ARSTY) started a band called The Courtesy Line. Ron later started his solo project, Archie’s Come Back. The Beta Unit’s drummer, Kevin Shook, still plays with Dublin 5, a popular Irish rock band in the Maryland area. --- 0:00 - Deadbolt 3:02 - Farce 6:06 - 20/40 12:00 - A Few Too Many 16:51 - Not This Time 21:38 - Ones and Zeroes 25:20 - Permanent Winter Headcold 30:39 - Catatonic 33:45 - Cellophane