Polio Dog

Once upon a time, on a rather long island far away from here, I used to be in a band called Polio Dog. The history of Polio Dog is a rather strange one. The band was created as a side project to my band pawnShop (now known as Vision), which itself was a side project to the band Broken Tears, featuring myself and Polio Dog's drummer Bill Volpe. Broken Tears, in turn, formed from the remnants of Escape, which, when it broke up, included me, Bill, and Polio Dog's guitarist Mike Gibaldi, who sang for Escape.

Have I lost you yet?

Well, it gets worse. Polio Dog no longer exists. But throughout the course of its brief life, Polio Dog managed to play a few gigs and record a demo tape, entitled Three Sheets to the Wind. If you would like to order your own copy of Sheets, e-mail me. Here is some information on Sheets, taken from the liner notes.

Polio Dog: Three Sheets to the Wind

Polio Dog is:

mike "j.d." gibaldi guitars
chris "wedge" merlo bass, vocals
bill "madman" volpe drums

Three Sheets to the Wind

Produced by Ken "Grover" Petrilli and Mike "Binky" McAndrew
Recorded at Five Towns College, Dix Hills, N.Y. March-April 1995 on good old analog 2" reel-to-reel tape
All songs arranged by Polio Dog
Cover photo by Mike Gibaldi
All songs copyright © 1995 Michael V. Gibaldi and Christopher R. Merlo.
All rights reserved.

No animals were harmed during the recording or production of this EP... except Bill.
Not a product of Bolivia.

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