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In 1991, while cleaning up roadside trash on Interstate 5 as part of a probationary sentence for shoplifting, a young Coalinga High music student discovered a box of "death metal" music CDs that had fallen out of a UPS truck bound for San Francisco.
He shared his discovery with his small circle of friends and they quickly became obsessed with the music’s imagery and dark lyrics. This did not endear them to the Coalinga locals (whose tastes run more towards "modern country" and Contemporary Christian pop), and soon the small group of teens became outcasts at Coalinga High School and in our community-at-large.An addiction to the harmful practice of "sniffing glue" caused the quick decay of the boys’ judgment, and one dark night, while feeling sorry for themselves, they made a suicide pact. After stealing a shotgun from under one of their father’s beds, they made their way out to the cotton fields of Coalinga and attempted a mass suicide by self-inflicted gunshot.
Fortunately, the youths survived. However, the force of the blasts left them physically (and to a certain extent, mentally) handicapped. The boys were placed in a series of county and state rehabilitation programs. While undergoing physical reconstruction and mental therapy at the Coalinga Youth Hospice, the now-repentant teens decided to embark on a more positive venture: they decided to form a band.
Together, and with the support and encouragement of the Coalinga Youth Hospice and two understanding teachers at Coalinga High School, Mr. Evans and myself, the four young men (headless/elongated-neck guitarist Neck Head; plaid-tartan skin-graft victim/wheelchair-bound vocalist McPatrick Head; penny-pinching mathemathics-obsessed Graph Head; and Abraham-Lincoln-mask-wearing history-buff Washington DC Head) began practicing and performing as "THE FAXED HEAD." While undergoing further therapy at the Youth Hospice, the boys met a local mime/metal-detector-operator named Fifth Head who was added to the group’s line-up to introduce modern electronics to their sound.
Thanks to a sympathetic night manager at the local Taco Bell, the group were able rehearse and record in the Taco Bell men’s restroom after hours. To the excitement and pride of the boys’ parents and everyone in the local community, several of the boys’ songs were picked up by record labels for nationwide release, and they traveled to nearby big-city San Francisco to perform at some of the metal-music clubs there.
Shortly after the release of the group’s very first record, drummer Washington DC Head was kicked out of the band for being stingy with a bag of potato chips. (He is currently suffering from self-inflicted cancer in an Arlington, Virginia medical clinic.) But the group found a replacement in LaBrea Tar Pits Head, who has now been the driving force on the drums for many years. (An aborted suicide attempt on the edge of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles left him covered in tarry blotches, mentally unstable, and perfect for Faxed Head.)
As Faxed Head’s story and their music began to attract "worldwide" attention in the press, locals began to appreciate the boys’ new roles as "Coalinga’s ambassadors to the world." (In fact, the Coalinga Chamber of Commerce released a souvenir 45 RPM record featuring two songs of civic pride recorded by Faxed Head, copies of which were made available at several local businesses.) In 1995, the group was asked to come to far-away Japan, where their records had received some attention and notoriety thanks to a segment on a national newsprogram. In Japan, they performed at several top nightclubs in Tokyo and Osaka, and at a special "in-store appearance" at a record store in Tokyo’s shopping district.
Following this exciting tour, bass player Graph Head recovered from his disabilities and left the group to concentrate on a new career as a Wall Street stockbroker. He was replaced in the band by oddly-handicapped musician Jigsaw Puzzle Head (from the neighboring town of Kerman), and in 1997, the new lineup of the group traveled to Australia where they performed in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, to help promote their new album "Exhumed At Birth."
After a 4-year hiatus in which the boys have repeatedly attempted to beat physical and emotional exhaustion and their continuing addiction to the harmful practice of sniffing glue, they completed work on a new 9-song album, "Chiropractic," which is on the Mimicry Records label. (NOTE: This is a site constructed by a FAN of Faxed Head, and little has been heard about Faxed Head's progress since 2002.) This information was provided by http://www.faxedhead.com !!!!!
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