Who We Are.

I think it's safe to say that not everyone in Gainesville (or otherwise) understands where our music is coming from. Here's someone who does: Aaron, currently in MD.
He said:

I don't think I ever put my finger on why I always liked you guys. Live, you're a wall and you don't sound like anyone else. But on record, at a quieter volume, I finally figured it out. You guys steal some of your aesthetic from Archers of Loaf and Sonic Youth, but you're a pop band. Squeaky plays pop music. You have choruses that lift with big hooks, you like ooh's and aah's, you have call and response vocals and your songs are short. Squeaky is a pop band. I hope you understand that I am paying you the highest compliment I can give. I don't like bands, I like songs. And to me, the definition of a pop band is a band focuses on songs. The Velvet Underground at their least meandering, Sonic Youth when they put down the goddam screwdrivers, Bob Dylan when he keeps it brief and Nirvana are all pop bands. They dabbled and experimented and annoyed the casual listener, but at their core, they understood how to write a song. You guys have songs in spades. And that is why I will always be a fan.
On a side note, "it's just noise but it's our noise" is the best self-referential band description ever. It's way better that "We were just another band out of Boston."

Thank you, Aaron.

New Digs, Old Digs

In the beginning, Squeaky started practicing in the living room of Harry's house. When we became a real band, then began renting a small room in Everyman Sound Company. We later moved into another room in the same building, across the hall, mostly because of the functional air conditioning. When the band broke up in 2003, we left years of detritus in the space which then became inhabited by various bands of Kristen's, Harry's wife and kick-ass drummer.
When Squeaky re-formed in 2005, we began practicing in the cushy digs of guitar player Steve's house, with a ceiling fan, full-sized fridge, a real P.A. system, and plenty of room for rocking.
Steve recently moved out of that house, and so it was time for Squeaky to move back into our old space, which we now share with one of Kristen's current bands, Three Legged Dawg. It was weird at first, to be back in such a tiny room with hardly any room to move while we play. But it's a blessing, too, to have a room that is away from all of our houses, a room where the band is the band. When we're all there, we are Squeaky. And that matters.
We have gone back through some of the detritus (we seriously had a pair of blue coveralls which Steve wore during a show back in the nineties! It was still in the closet!), laughed our asses off, and have continued the business of being Squeaky.
H