Mark Fischer started jamming on guitar with Allen Morris after school. Chris Platts and Allen Morris both wanted to start a band, so seemed logical to bring Mark in as a rhythm guitarist. All this band needed now was a drummer. So that's when Allen brought in friend Mike Baum to play. By March, the four were fooling around with names, but none of them worked.
April 2001 came, and the band now called themselves "Slip of the Lip" after a World War II poster. With the new month and name came several changes. Mike dropped the drums to play bass, Chris relingquished the lead guitar role for drums, and Allen took over the position of lead guitar. From then on, the band worked on songs and by May of that year "released" their first recorded single"Not Working" a poppy tune of MxPx influence. ("released" meaning that we burned a bunch of cd's for our friends). That month we took a stab at recording an EP to send out to record labels, but we all for some reason really pissed off at each other and attempted to stab each other instead. So that didn't really turn out. Anyways, the band took it easy, practicing sporatically until being kicked out of the recording studio (where we practiced) on June 20, 2001.
From then on, Slip of the Lip relocated into Allen's garage. First we worked on buying all our own equiptment, (since none of us owned performance sized amps) then we worked on perfecting our music. It was a fun summer and later on August 18, put on a small show in Allen's backyard. The "Summer of the Garage" so it was called came to an end when a psycho neighbor tried to strangle Chris.
Inbetween the months of August and September, we also went back into the studio and recorded our EP entitled "If Everyone Was Ska". We passed it around our school for a whopping $2.00 a copy. We sold in all about 60.
After the last EP was handed out in October 2001, Chris Platts left the band. He later went on to form "Some Kind of Hero" with friend Jon Blair, ending the first chapter of Slip of the Lip.
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