THE WILMA SESSIONS; PANIC, TASTY TREATS, AND THAT DAMN TIMBALE
It was ugly. Matt had promised financing from the Japanese mob, and instead it all fell through. By this time, Matt was intermittently lucid and then violent, and did much damage to the studio because, among many other things, his timbale wasn't mixed loudly enough. Pat almost had to sell his Pete Rose Baseball Card Collection to pay for the session, but it didn't happen; instead, on leaving the studio, we were forced to sell our equipment. Matt coined the term "Tasty Treat" and scoured the parking lot for things to hit with sticks to add to the songs for that "percussion-boner" that drummers always get. All later Kill Creek overdubs (particularly the idiotic ones) would be forever referred to as "Tasty Treats" as a tribute to Matt's obsession with production. Unfortunately, Scott and Ron got studio-boner too, and managed to discover digital effects, gratuitously over-using signal processors on their guitar sounds. Pat made umpire noises on the beginnings and ends of songs, Ron's brother made hell noises on songs, and this ugly "Tasty Treat" fad would continue for the duration of the band. Ron, Scott, Pat and JP (not his real name) tried desperately to come up with a lie that would make Matt think that his timbale couldn't be recorded. He wouldn't fall for any of them. Half of the session was spent waiting for Ron's brother to calm Matt down enough to record (as illustrated in photo; Ron's bro in the background) Despite all of the catastrophies, they came out with a few bona-fide winners, including a derogatory tribute to Todd Newman, Lawrence songwriting legend (ironically titled "Todd Newman"), and a spin-off of "Wouldn't it be Nice" that would later be featured on a compilation of regional bands called
Fresh Sounds from Middle America vol. V. This song would later be subliminaly plagiarized by the Pixies on "Debaser" despite the likelihood that they had never heard it. No lawsuit was filed.

