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Mutha’s Day Out - My Soul Is Wet (1993)

Mutha’s Day Out was an early post-hardcore/rapcore band formed in November 1991 from the town of Batesville, Arkansas. The band consisted of: Mikal Moore (vocals), Brice Stephens (vocals), Chuck Schaaf (guitar), Jeff Morgan (bass), and Rodney Moffitt (drums). They released one album, My Soul is Wet, in 1993 for Chrysalis Records before breaking up.

Background:
In the beginning, Mikal Moore (real name: Michael Moorhead; High School Nickname: “Gimme”) and Randy Cross conceived Mutha’s Day Out through influence of the Beastie Boys. Mutha’s Day Out was originally intended to be a Beastie Boys knock-off, and they had three vocalists (Mikal, Brice, and Randy). The name was thought up by Brice and comes from a daycare center in Batesville that kids could go to for pre-school in Methodist churches. Jeff had been kicked out of a band he and Chuck were in before Mutha’s Day Out because he did not have a car. Right after that occurred, Mikal asked Jeff to be in a band that would sound like “Faith No More, Beastie Boys, and Ozzy Osbourne.” When the band first came together, Lance was 21 years old, Mikal was 20 years old, Brice was 18 years old, Chuck was 17 years old, Rodney was 17 years old, and Jeff was 15 years old. In the early days, the band would work on farms working hard hours during the day and do Mutha’s Day Out by evening. Chuck was just a guitar technician at first for the band and would drive them to gigs. In April 1992, the band traveled to Memphis in search of a cheap recording studio. They found the studio they were looking for that belonged to recording engineers named Doug Easley and Davis McCain. After producing Mutha’s Day Out’s first demo in studio, which consisted of over 16 tracks, Doug was so inspired by their work that he booked the band to play in the Crossroads Music Festival the very same week. In the same performance, Mutha’s Day Out’s first, a representative from Chrysalis Records named Karen DuMonte was present, and was there to see and sign another band. However, after seeing MDO’s performance, she liked Mutha’s Day Out so much they were offered to go to the studio the next day, while receiving a record contract the next day, as well. They became the youngest rock band to be signed by such a major label in years.

The Album:
They went to the studio to record their only album, My Soul is Wet. However, Randy Cross left the band the day after they got the record label and Lance was kicked out a week afterwards. The band kicked Lance out of the band after the record company said he did not fit the image of the rest of the band because of his weight and his stage presence he did not move around on the stage he just stood in one place. So they replaced him with Chuck Schaaf. Halfway through the production of the album, Greenforth Pham, a Vietnamese kid who was a close friend of Mikal and Brice’s, committed suicide, and thus the album was dedicated in his memory. The album was finished and then released on October 19th, 1993. Many of the people who lived in Batesville, which is surrounded with gospel and country music influence, did not like Mutha’s Day Out and their music. They received little or no support from their hometown. Yet many of the songs written by Mutha’s Day Out contain religious elements and impressions of their childhoods.

The Tour:
Mutha’s Day Out toured the United States and Europe from late 1993 to late 1994. They were opening for such bands as Jackyl, King’s X, Overkill, Sugartooth, and the Bullet Boys. The band increased the tempo of all of their songs live. Jeff, at one point during the tour, was in a leg brace having dislocated his knee the night before at a club gig in Birmingham, Alabama, but was still insistent on playing. Even with the leg brace on, he was still moving around on stage. During their tour in the United States, they stayed in cheap hotels to lower the cost of the record company’s tour bill. Many people who met and saw them on tour thought that their friendliness and youth were refreshing. People in Paris enjoyed and liked them so much, that when they played there, extra security had to be called in. A live E.P. of the show at the Virgin Megastore in Paris was released, but in limited quantities. It was actually taped at a different gig in Paris, but released under the Virgin Megastore name. It is so rare that, to this day, only Chuck has a copy of it.

The Break-Up
Mikal left the band in September 1994, but this had been discussed and dealt with already with Chrysalis before the album even came out. They asked him to do the tour for the album, and he agreed. He wanted to pursue a Christian rock band and Mutha’s Day Out was not his taste. The band brought in another singer from Kansas City, but a few weeks after that happened, the band dissolved. Nothing came of the switch. Jeff confirmed that the band broke up due to their record label. They kept making them act in ways and do things which they didn’t want to be a part of. Due to their youth, the band didn’t realize that having a major record deal would be so difficult to pursue. They got sick of doing things they didn’t want to do, so they called it quits and returned to their hometown. There was a rumor posted on the Internet that there is a second Mutha’s Day Out album out there, with new material, and a live version of “Locked.” However, this has been disproved by Jeff Morgan himself, and does not actually exist, although they did write an unreleased song called “I Am Dead,” the name of the “second” MDO album.

Facts:
*Brice Stephens is the one pictured on the album cover in the background, and the girl in front is a friend of his. The Batesville police even tried to stop the shooting of the Locked video because they thought, since she was in a white dress, they were recording a child pornography video.
*The preacher speaking in the songs “My Soul is Wet,” “Through Mine,” and in the background of “I Thirst” is, to this day, unknown to any of the band members. Chuck’s amp received radio signals in studio, and there was a preacher talking to a crowd. They thought it was interesting, so they pressed record.
*In their Mortal Kombat appearance, the director filmed them playing and headbanging silently so they could later edit in the song “What U See” in the background. The scene was actually filmed in an old bomb shelter in Hollywood.
*”What U See/We All Bleed Red” was the very first song ever written by Mutha’s Day Out.
*In “Memories Fade,” the drummer for Survivor provided the drum parts.
*”Ding-Ding Man” is actually based upon a guy who would drive a Hostess Ding Dongs 18-wheeler truck and would make the band go away whenever they loitered in a parking lot near his bakery.

Track Listing:

01. Locked (Tear Me Down)
02. My Soul Is Wet
03. Green
04. What U See/We All Bleed Red
05. Dry Water
06. Ding Ding Man
07. Get a Clue
08. Blank Page
09. Memories Fade
10. Breakfast First Please
11. Wait for Me
12. Ugly

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