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* [[My Nayme Is|Jimy]] Chambers - drums
This lineup produced two [[Cult Classic]] albums, ''Yerself Is Steam'' (1991) and ''Boces'' (1993), which found a large audience and some chart success in the indie-rock-happy UK. The album's styles are marked by [[Epic Rocking|extended run-times]], ragged self-production, use of Grasshopper's homemade Tettix Wave Acumulator synth, a chaotic sound that constantly shifts between poppy accessibility and freaky guitar noisescapes, [[Word Salad Title|Word Salad Titles]] and [[Word Salad Lyrics|lyrics]], and the interplay between Baker's deranged, low-pitched vocals and Donahue's more [[Sigur
The lineup was plagued by instability, drug abuse and [[Creative Differences]], and ''Boces'' (named after New York's Boards of Cooperative Educational Services) earned infamy as a particularly [[Troubled Production]] even by their [[Crazy Awesome]] standards - one famous story is that either Donahue or Baker tried at one point to [[Eye Scream|gouge out Grasshopper's eye]] [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon|with a spoon]].
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