vocals, guitar: Britt Daniel
drums: Jim Eno
bass guitar: Josh Zarbo
from: Austin, TX
labels: Merge (US), Matador (everywhere else, for GM), 12XU (Europe), Spunk (Australia)
when it all began:
late 1993
the name: taken from a Can song
from www.addict.com
"Whistle a Happy Spoon"
It's with something of a sigh that Daniel confesses that about the only thing
about Spoon that he did not plan well in advance was the band's name, which was
taken from a song by the German band Can.
"It's one of the most boring band names that there ever will be. But hopefully,
the way I think about band names is that after you get to know a band well, the
name becomes a utilitarian kind of thing. You don't really think about what it
means, or how original or creative it is after a while. It's like the Velvet
Underground. You don't think, 'What is velvet, and what is underground?'"