
Halloween...and other fun wacky stuff.
On Oct. 31st, 1996, two years after Ronald R. Rodent promised to Most Holy,
smoking section of this band, that ICBC
would play on Halloween one day, ICBC
played at a house party with Goblingoat. Although the drummer had never
played with the members before and there was no time for rehearsal, ICBC
pulled off Cheese and cover tune So What! with pinpoint accuracy. The crowd
loved it and one individual mentioned that ICBC
was better than Goblingoat that night. Of course, this person had a LOT
to drink, but dammit we at least UNDERSTOOD a FEW words, including: "guys,"
"good," and "f#@ing sheep." So somewhere in there was a good review.
On Oct. 31st, 1997, ICBC members
Paul & Vince & Conrad Adams performed in Champaign yet again. This
time, though, they headlined Conrad's basement party for a FULL
12 minutes!!!
left to right: Vince
the Viking, Conrad the mighty Viking Warrior, Coop the Rastaviking, F*#king
Steve the Drunken Viking, Derrick the bloody Viking, and Pricess Died.
Not pictured: Brett the Armed Viking (he was cut out of the photo) and
Paul The Bunny.
That night the Viking crew in the above photo sacked and raided every bar
in campus, seizing the dancefloor and then running off to raze other bars.
The campaign ended at Kam's, a very preppy bar full of very preppy people,
but that did not stop Conrad the mighty Viking warrior from winning a whole
hell of a lot of money for his inventive costume. Then the night ended
at Conrad's place where ICBC took the...basement, and performed the classic
soon-to-be-a-top-40-smash hit song "Cheese," along with many other ICBC
future hits, such as "Drinkin' Beer On A Country Road," "Stream Of
Unconsciousness,"
"Hi My Name Is Brak," and "In The Ruins of The Mountain King(?)." Then
they stopped playing cause the beer had taken its toll on the mighty Viking
warriors. So they drank some more. And some more. And some more...

LEFT: Paul, Conrad, and Coop before they conquer
every bar on campus. RIGHT: Paul and buddy
Amber, at UIC after a huge Chemistry test (yes, I wore the outfit while
taking the test) before the Viking carnage in Champaign.
Most recently Vince The Viking Warrior has invited
myself and my lovely instruments of destruction to his parents' basement
in Charleston, IL. The Gufstufsons are the most gracious of hellraisers.
Much beer and loud noise has been consumed and will be related on this
page soon.

Five years ago in the hallways of Loyola Academy sat two guys, Paul and
Buck, and they made hilarious attempts to play bass and guitar. They were
bored and thought they should start a band. They called it Regicide and
then Paul went to college and met many more people who were interested
in joining in but were confused by the ideology and mission of this band.
Then Buck went to the same college and they changed the name to
InterContinental
Ballistic Cheese (thanks to Ian Bennett!) and soon realized that they were
going to have a hard time finding people who would understand what this
death, punk, rock thing was all about and why they had wasted time writing
songs about cheese. Then Paul met Vince and Vince seemed to grasp the idea
and soon a new party format was initiated into the band. And Conrad joined
in to play drums and more parties ensued and it seemed like someone, someone
out there, knew what this was all about. Then Paul had to move to Chicago
and soon no one understood anything anymore. It's been five years.
Five Years. And they still write songs about cheese.
They are now in rooms with padded walls and are having a great
time.
Here's a look at history before the band started:
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???? B.C. - 1968 A.D. man evolves from the rats and alligators and
builds civilizations (we all love the game) and starts wars and stuff like
that.
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1981 A.D. - 1982 A.D. Metallica and Corrosion Of Conformity are
created.
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1982 A.D. - 1993 A.D. Sorry, our textbooks were published in
1968.
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1993 A.D. - ? two guys learn to play guitar and write songs about
killing people, cheese, and killing people with cheese. They meet in some
math class and decide to form a band.
Current
status
Stuff soon.
Coming soon, baby. Give it some time...
BUG