All about the band. Releases, including singles & videos Go see them live. The whole reason you're visiting this site. The pictures...RETURN! Like Rhoda, but for COC. Other places to go, I guess. All the cool people who helped me out. The OFFICIAL COC site

Righteous Fool

The latest from Mike, Reed, and Jason Browning. Here's their Myspace page. The lineup was originally Mike and Woody and Jason Paterson if I'm not mistaken, but things happen. The band released a single on Southern Lord records and tour with COC as of 2010. More details on that page.

Down

It's Pepper Keenan and AVD touring drummer Jimmy Bower along with some of Pantera and Crowbar's members in a supergroup of sludgy drugged out southern metal. They have two albums, Nola and II, and as of 2006 will be touring Europe and MAY be recording an EP or full album afterwards. Probably more popular than either COC or Pantera.

Leadfoot


So what happened between Blind & Deliverance? The band was recording Deliverance when they decided to kick out singer Karl Agell. Bassist Phil Swisher quit in response (and supposedly Woody quit as well) and they formed Leadfoot. The hard rock band has released three albums, Bring It On (of which, supposedly, Woody helped write some of the songs), Take A Look, and We Drink For Free. As of 2006, Phil Swisher is no longer in the band, and the band is still doing shows and working on a new album.

Mystic Krewe Of Clearlight


Jimmy Bower's band, even though Jimmy only toured with COC I will include this because the CD they released on Tee Pee records KICKS ASS. Instrumental, organ driven rock. Wonderful album, I recommend you find it. They have a split EP with Acid King, and Wino from the Obsessed sings on their two songs. Also in the band is Big Ross, COC's tour guy, and the summer 2005 tour and Jagermeister tour Ross played keyboards during part of COC's set. (MKOC also did a version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Cheatin' Woman with Pepper Keenan on vocals on a very hard to find 7" on Southern Lord records.)

Let'Lones


Woody, Mike, and Merritt (who played on the It Is That Way song for the High Volume comp) side project, which has been recorded but not released. Hopefully soon. Someday. Please.

The Shining Path


A punk project with Reed, not sure what or where or when. Not to be confused with:

Man Will Destroy Himself

Reed played drums on this in the 00's but I don't think he's on this release for "This Is A Test." Some songs off of COC's self-titled may or may not have been MWDH material at some point.

Brown


While Reed was hanging out at home waiting for his back to heal as the rest of the band started to tour behind AVD, he started to sing for a side project with COC producer John Custer called "Brown." Reed officially quit COC and Brown did a tour along the east coast. I guess there was some label interest but apparently not enough, and the band sort of fizzled out. There is an EP out there and one song that got around the internet was "Satellite." If you've read the accusations from Reed that the band wasn't going in the heavy direction he wanted to go in by the time he quit, you'll be very confused by this song.

UPDATE: Reed Mullin's myspace page has some samples. I know, who does myspace? Anyway, one of the former Brown members, Jonathan Lowry, has a few tracks on his site.

I found the Satellite EP a few months ago. Not bad. Reed & John Custer did a few xmas songs together, both as Brown and as just "Reed and John." I'm sure this will leave the die-hards scratching but hey, you can't blame a guy for following his heart and making the music that was in there.

Snake Nation


In that in-between period when there was no COC, Mike and Woody appeared on a record with artist/drummer Brian Walsby and released one self-titled album on Caroline Records.

Says Brian Walby: "Mike quits in '87 and takes all of these new songs with him. The band I think eventually misses him a whole lot.. Phil Siwsher joins on bass. Simon Bob is still the singer. I remember at the time how I thought this was the lamest line up they had and looking back I was right. But you know..whatever. After another year or so of shows Simon Bob mercifully quit and the band went into break up/hibernation mode. During this period, Swisher calls one Buzz Osborne to see if he would be into being COC's new singer (true story!). Buzz says no thanks. Woody gets Caroline Records contract to record solo "Snake Nation" material that he had, then invites Mike Dean (then living in Atlanta) and yours truly to join him. We rehearse a lot and then record the record as cheaply as possible, which you can really tell when you listen to it..it sounds horrible. Me and Mike gave the engineer some music to listen to to give him an idea of where we were coming from: first Melvins record, first Sabbath record, Black Flag's 'Slip It IN'...the guy ends up thinking that we sounded 'just like Foghat.' True story!
Between the time right after we recorded and by the time the record comes out, COC gets Pepper, then later on Karl. The band doesnt get around to working on new material for awhile. They play some shows as a five piece and it wasn't the greatest they had ever been. Right afterwards, they start working on the "Blind" material. THis is all what happened in a year and a half period.
Where was Reed, and why wasn't he involved in Snake Nation? I have no idea...perhaps those guys weren't getting along at that point. In a way, he should have been there. Then again, if he was I wouldn't have been able to jam with Mike and Woody. Its not the greatest record to ever come out but the material is basically pretty good and like I have always said, people still to this day come up and say that they liked it. Some people have thought that Snake Nation was this Ret Hot Chili Peppers thing because of this funk bass line that Mike plays in one song..whatever. The rest of the stuff is mostly old Mike Dean COC songs that he had before he quit. So if you like what Mike wrote during the Animosity period, rest assured you'd probably like the Snake Nation recording."

Ninefinger.


Mike Dean's band in Philly. They have released a few 7"s that are very hard to find, but there is an 11 song compilation album out there called "Ninefingered." Mike Dean sings and plays bass on this very, very, VERY trippy album, including a cover of Dr. Feelgood. There is another band called "ninefinger" out there somewhere, I think in California, not the same band.

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