The original idea came from Morphine frontman Mark Sandman, with whom Ballew had previously worked.

Ballew wrote Twig about Beck being a " twig in the wind "; Ballew was recording this track on Beck's 4-track at Beck's home in East LA, when Beck came out of his bedroom and joined Ballew.

" Shortly after settling on their name, Ballew and Dederer added drummer Jason Finn ; the band played their first show as a trio at Seattle's Romper Room in early December 1993.

* 1965 – Chris Ballew, American singer and bassist ( The Presidents of the United States of America and Caspar Babypants )

In 2009, in addition to his continued work with The Presidents, Ballew began recording and performing as children's artist Caspar Babypants.

* Dave Dederer ( 1982 ) and Chris Ballew ( 1983 ), members of the band the Presidents of the United States of America

All songs by Chris Ballew and The Presidents of the United States of America unless otherwise noted.

It is the second album as The Giraffes by The Presidents of the United States of America's Chris Ballew.

Chris and Tad ( aka The Chris and Tad Show ) was formed in 1998 by The Presidents of the United States of America's Chris Ballew and Young Fresh Fellows ' Tad Hutchison.

Caspar and Mollüsk is a 7 " vinyl EP made by Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America ( Caspar ) and Beck ( Mollüsk ).

Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America ( band ) | The Presidents of the United States of America, 2005.

* Chris Ballew, lead singer of The Presidents of the United States of America, has recorded with a one-string cigar box bass made by Shane Speal.

It is essentially a solo effort by Chris Ballew ( ex-Presidents of the United States of America ), recorded in Ballew's basement.

* 1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U. S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades, which all turn out to be inert or dummies.

The three-piece group currently comprises vocalist and " basitarist " Chris Ballew, drummer and vocalist Jason Finn with " guitbassist " and vocalist Andrew McKeag.

The band was formed in late 1993 by Chris Ballew ( bass guitar and lead vocals ) and Dave Dederer ( guitar and backup vocals ), who met while attending The Bush School in Seattle.

Initially a drummerless duo, Ballew and Dederer performed a half-dozen or so shows in 1993 as " The Lo-Fis ", " The Dynamic Duo ", and " Pure Frosting.

The band broke up in January 1998 as Ballew quit to spend more time with his young family and explore other musical terrain.

Ballew was the most prolific of the three, releasing albums with The Giraffes and The Tycoons, two of his side projects.

Around 2006, Chris Ballew began collaborating with Seattle-based rapper Outtasite as The Feelings Hijackers.

* " Peaches " was parodied in the TV series Bill Nye the Science Guy as " Farm Foods ", with lead singer Chris Ballew playing basitar in the parody.

All songs by Chris Ballew unless otherwise noted.

Tracks 20 – 26 are demos recorded in the cities and years noted ; Chris Ballew is the only performer on tracks 20 – 24.

All instruments played by Chris Ballew.

The song became a popular hit in 1929 and was recorded by numerous artists such as Nat Shilkret, Frank Munn, Ben Selvin ( as The Cavaliers ), Smith Ballew, Adrian Schubert, Sam Lanin and Bob Haring.

Caspar Babypants ( aka Chris Ballew from PUSA ) also wrote and recorded a song called " Hova and Belinda " for Greasy Kid Stuff.

* Ballew, Pat Origins of some arithmetic terms-2.

Bodine was involved in a vicious, fiery accident at Daytona International Speedway in the inaugural Daytona 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race on February 18, 2000, driving the # 15 Line-X Ford F-150 for Billy Ballew.

He used first-rate vocalists, including Paul Small, Dick Robertson, Harlan Lattimore, Smith Ballew, Helen Rowland, Frank Munn, The Boswell Sisters, Lee Wiley and others.

In time bishops came to be appointed locally rather than from England and eventually national synods began to pass ecclesiastical legislation independent of England.

Renaissance architects included Alberti, Brunelleschi and Bramante. Many of these artists came from Florence and it remained an important centre for the Renaissance into the 16th century eventually to be overtaken by Rome and Venice.

He eventually came to be recognized as the chief of his clan.

With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.

Most of the European parties eventually came around to the arguments made by the Americans, but France and a few others held out for a shorter cell length.

The two towns over time formed close economic and social ties and eventually merged in 1307 and came to be known as Berlin.

Eventually the head or " monarchic " bishop came to rule more clearly, and all local churches would eventually follow the example of the other churches and structure themselves after the model of the others with the one bishop in clearer charge, though the role of the body of priests remained important.

One of these dialects, Late West Saxon, eventually came to dominate.

This period faded away in music and literature: however, it influenced what came afterward and would eventually be a component of aesthetic taste in later decades.

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

Constantine's foundation gave prestige to the Bishop of Constantinople, who eventually came to be known as the Ecumenical Patriarch, a situation that contributed to the Great Schism that divided Western Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy from 1054 onwards.

The earliest descriptions of a global communications network came long before the World Wide Web entered popular awareness, though not before traditional science-fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke and some social commentators such as James Burke began predicting that such networks would eventually form.

After tensions with the U. S. government came to a head in 1890, the church officially abandoned the public practice of polygamy in the United States, and eventually stopped performing official polygamous marriages altogether after a Second Manifesto in 1904.

His personal library, purchased after his death, eventually came to the University of Glasgow, where a commemorative exhibition of books from his library was held in 1974.

The Masorti movement did not establish a presence in the United Kingdom until much later and came about largely because of a series of incidents known colletively as the " Jacobs affair ": Rabbi Louis Jacobs, a leading scholar of Anglo Jewry, joined the faculty of the Jews College, leaving his post as Rabbi of the New West End Synagogue, under the impression that he would eventually be made principal.

Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world.

One critic states of psychologists that " Instead of replacing ' metaphysical ' terms such as ' desire ' and ' purpose ', they used it to legitimize them by giving them operational definitions ... the initial, quite radical operationalist ideas eventually came to serve as little more than a ' reassurance fetish ' ( Koch 1992 ) for mainstream methodological practice.

The word " demiurge " is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek, dēmiourgos, literally " public worker ", and which was originally a common noun meaning " craftsman " or " artisan ", but gradually it came to mean " producer " and eventually " creator ".

His battlecruisers achieved few hits on the enemy, with most of the damage being inflicted by the battleships when they eventually came close enough to take part.

At first Newson was opposed to the radical idea of his daughter becoming a doctor but eventually came round and agreed to do all in his power, both financially and otherwise, to support Elizabeth in the long uphill battle.

This arrangement came to be called a " projection printer ", and eventually an " optical printer ".

However, as hunting forests did often include considerable areas of woodland, the word " forest " eventually came to mean wooded land more generally.

" Lucas eventually came to state that his religion was " Buddhist Methodist ".

At the age of ten, he and his friends played the sort of games that eventually came to be called " live action role-playing games " with one of them acting as a referee.

While conventional reality was eventually restored, it came at a high price, as thousands if not millions of Earth ’ s mutant population lost their powers or died in the process, leaving only a few hundred mutants alive and powered.