OHCEE
OHCEE
otis capacity
In the fall of 1992 I used to hit frat parties every once and a while (mainly for my own amusement- those silly date rapers) and I usually saw this bald-headed "House of Pain" lookin' dude. He was also there for the amusement as well. We got to talkin' and the following year we became roommates with my brother Anthony and his streak of Satanically spawned roommates. We talked about starting a band; we'd seen the rise of Richmond's most popular band back in the day, GRIP. How hard could it be? Cory had never picked up a guitar before we met, but the Gods soon blessed him with a creme Fender Stratocaster. He practiced religiously everyday whether it was straight out of a chord book, or straight out of his head. I was out of luck. I just sold my glitter blue Ludwig 5 piece drum kit. I was determined to get a new kit- that's what student credit cards are for, right?! Another rythm guitarist would be nice. Matt Calvert fit the bill at that point in time. Anthony was straight-he still had his bass setup from high school jam sessions. With a kit still out of my reach we said "Fuck it!" and one of Anthony's friends had a house to practice in AND a drum kit! We only practiced there twice but it was all we needed to get the ball rolling...THUS IT HAD BEGUN!!! Throughout many a drunken night we'd discussed band names. "Dienshal" ( as in Die David Henshal- one of Anthony's psycho roommates) and "Dominion" just to name a couple. Otis Capacity stuck. It came from an elevator in our apartment complex made by Otis Elevators. The product plate inside said " OTIS-capacity 2500 LBS". Our first show was at University of Delaware where an "ex-(slut) girlfriend" had friends that wanted a live band to play at their Valentine's party. It was a shit-hole of a house, in a shit-hole of a town. It was affectionately known as "Skid Row". Our Hostesses were all Sorrority chicks-all hot. Anthony hooked up with two of them at the same time, not-so-indescreetly in the living room while I sat next to all three of them on the couch. Bastard-Didn't even share! Matt left the band. We played there the following Valentine's Day- That's where we encountered the "talents" of big tit Hillary(..photos posted soon). She lived there and she willingly did a strip tease for us after she was done babbling about winning some wet T-shirt contest. The show was just topless though. With camera in hand, Anthony shot away- we liked it there. Our friend Jay drove all the way from Richmond just for our show! What a hard-core fan! I know he had loads of fun there! That time we played with our friend Bing's band. We Opened up for a multitude of other bands, but no headliners except for a couple of parties...oh well. We recorded our first demo entitled Behold. After the return of Heavy Metal Matt and the eventual departure of HMM...again, plus one divorce and a break up, OC was left at a crossroad. Our dream line up would have me on 2nd guitar and Bing Deleyos on Drums. There’s no way Bing would move to Richmond though. The talents of Tod Parkhill, drummer for good ol’ Minnow/South and an interesting drinking buddy, presented himself. An extremely versed drummer (he kicks ASS!) Tod throws down some tight-ass beats! After a $676.40 Peavy/Marshall amp purchase for myself, and a night of moderate drinking we broke bread and added Tod to the OC family tree which has no branches. I must say that Tod brings OC to the next level (shouldn’t newheads anyway?). Of course, but it was above and beyond our expectations! We love Tod-smootchies! Presently we cut it down to just OC (or OHCEE) because everyone remembers the initials but not the name..oh well. Now you know!