June I993

Fisheads,

As you probably all know by now, February finally saw the release of 
"Spilt Milk", the latese magically delicious, nongrunge assemblage of tunes 
from Jellyfish. The girl pictured on the front cover has quite a career 
ahead of her if her behavior at the photo shoot is any indication. When 
the art director suggested that she feign sadness, the aspiring Sean Young 
threw a tantrum, screaming "But I'm the princess, I'm the princess!" 
Kids...ya gotta love 'em.

To celebrate the release of the album, Jellyfish played their first show 
in over a year and a half (with the Buzzcocks meet-Hello-Kity power trio, 
Shonen Knife) during the annual music industry shmooze-fest known as the 
Gavin Convention in San Francisco. After the show, Virgin Records 
supplied Jellyfish-customized cable cars (ie:, the Rice-a-Roni 
advertisements were replaced with Jellyf sh stickers & poster) which 
transported fisheads through the streets of San Francisco to a Spilt 
Milk-themed record release party in North Beach, complete with ice cream 
and bowls of cereal as refreshments. Earlier in the convention, Andy 
served on the Alternative Music panel, where he struck up a friendship 
with Mike D. of Beastie Boys fame.

The video for "Ghost at Number One", which was filmed at the same desert 
location as "The King is Half-Undressed", aired on MTV briefly - did  
everyone catch Roger riding a Gerrnan motorcycle with Andy in the 
sidecar? In a Spinal Tap-esque turn of events, the video had to be 
edited in England because of the British law which prohibits television 
portrayal of motorcycle-riding without a helmet. Needless to say, the 
British version makes absolutely no sense. The new fish faces you saw in 
the video are Eric Dover, an Alabama native who has taken over guitar 
duties for the band, and Tim Smith from Atlanta, Georgia who has been  
playing bass with Jellyfish for over a year now. Cornmenting on the 
Southern presence now so dominant in Jellyfish, Andy jokes, "maybe we 
should change the name to "Jellyfish Hatchet".

When not concentrating on rehearsing for upcoming tours, Jellyfish also 
found time recently to sing on country artist Kelly Willis's album. No 
word on a definite release date yet.

March was spent on a European press jaunt covering Germany, Holland, 
Sweden & England, where they played on a few TB shows (including 
Sweden's version of the Top 40), and showed offtheir Shanter-riffic wit 
in various interview. The highlight for Roger was discovering that  
German television is still showing the Beverly-Hills-902I0-meets-CopRock teen 
musical "Hull High". Upon their return, Jellyfish played at Six Flags 
Magic Mountain (Puppet Show & Jellyfish), their first theme park 
appearance. However, they did not run into that evil Devereaux with 
plans to create Jellyfish clones to take over the world, nor did anyone 
plant a bomb on the Revolution. So much for TV movies.

Jellyfish played a few U S. cities in April, and then returned to Europe 
for a six-week tour. Roger & Tim sent word that the highlight of the 
tour was finding candy in Stockholm called "Dog Farts". Stockholm was 
also the setting for the fulming of the "New Mistake" video which will 
probably be on MTV some time this month Look for a Swedish version of 
the girl on the cover of "Spilt Milk". While in England, they were 
ironically scheduled to play at a motorcycle museum. Hrnmmmm. Jellyfish 
begins their US tour this month. Those dates are enclosed.

Everpending cute fluffy things,
The Jellyfish Army.