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TAD DOYLE (TAD singer/guitarist) The first legal problem we had was with a release called 8-Way Santa. A friend found a photo of a couple in a photo album that they got at a thrift store or a garage sale. The photo was of a guy that looked like he was in Nazareth—with a big mustache and sideburns, long hair—and a woman. They both looked cooked, totally stoned and glassy-eyed and grinning ear to ear. Looked like they’d just had some good sex or something.
KURT DANIELSON (TAD bassist) And then he’s holding the girl’s breast with his hand in sort of an irreverent, shocking way. She is wearing just a bandanna on her breasts, which is totally white trash. [Sub Pop’s] Bruce Pavitt had the photograph color-enhanced, so all the colors look really phosphorescent. So you have this sort of white-trash snapshot taken from a delirious LSD vision, and that’s in keeping with the title of the record: 8-Way Santa is a kind of blotter acid that Tad had taken in Boise when he was growing up. And at the time it seemed like, Who cares if anyone objects, including the couple in the photograph, because this is artistically right, symmetrical, beautiful, and who’d want to interfere with that?Excerpted from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge.

Tad was by far the best of the bands from that time. So unknown and over shadowed by the big three. Master Doyle still blows me away with Brothers of the Sonic Cloth. When I saw the you tube of Tad playing in Sound Garden I was sooooo excited. I wish that would have gone farther than one gig.

TAD DOYLE (TAD singer/guitarist) The first legal problem we had was with a release called 8-Way Santa. A friend found a photo of a couple in a photo album that they got at a thrift store or a garage sale. The photo was of a guy that looked like he was in Nazareth—with a big mustache and sideburns, long hair—and a woman. They both looked cooked, totally stoned and glassy-eyed and grinning ear to ear. Looked like they’d just had some good sex or something.

KURT DANIELSON (TAD bassist) And then he’s holding the girl’s breast with his hand in sort of an irreverent, shocking way. She is wearing just a bandanna on her breasts, which is totally white trash. [Sub Pop’s] Bruce Pavitt had the photograph color-enhanced, so all the colors look really phosphorescent. So you have this sort of white-trash snapshot taken from a delirious LSD vision, and that’s in keeping with the title of the record: 8-Way Santa is a kind of blotter acid that Tad had taken in Boise when he was growing up. And at the time it seemed like, Who cares if anyone objects, including the couple in the photograph, because this is artistically right, symmetrical, beautiful, and who’d want to interfere with that?

Excerpted from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge.

Tad was by far the best of the bands from that time. So unknown and over shadowed by the big three. Master Doyle still blows me away with Brothers of the Sonic Cloth. When I saw the you tube of Tad playing in Sound Garden I was sooooo excited. I wish that would have gone farther than one gig.

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