WhyteHog was a high school band that started around 2000 in Nashville, TN. After jamming at
drummer Jake's house for a few months playing Blink182 and Metallica covers, they started writing
their own songs. The band was originally going to be called "Circle K" for whatever reason.
Somehow bassist Jonathan got dubbed with the nickname "White Hog". The name was so
hilarious, that they decided to name the band "Whyte Hog" as well in his honor. The band
name would be spelled with a "y" to differentiate between the band and the person. With a Tascam
4-Track, they recorded a self titled full length cd. Friends seemed to like it, but often
commented on the lousy recording quality. The trio played a few shows in Nashville and it was
alright. Fun times were supposedly had.
Then high school started coming close to an end, and the dark clouds of reality began to gather.
Everyone was a little foggy and freaking out about college. A few new WhyteHog songs were in
the works when guitarist / vocalist / musical nazi Tucker got greedy and went into hibernation
with the songs and his psychological disorders. Time was running out before everyone would have to leave
for college. Jake was busy trying to get his life in order and Jonathan was moving into his late Elvis stage.
Neither of them had time to focus on a new WhyteHog album. So Tucker, with the help of recording
engineer friend Cody Bottoms, recorded a second WhyteHog album in the summer of 2001
and called it "BYE" as a final farewell to high school life. The album sounded better, but was
way emo, and clearly the result of a single freaked out mind. With that, WhyteHog pretty much
ended. During college, there was some talk of re-recording old songs and making new ones.
But alas, real life takes up too much time.
Tucker now lives in LA and works at a recording studio. Since he's totally broke and has no shame
anymore, he decided to re-record some of the first WhyteHog album songs with the help of
Jonathan. This would all be done completely behind Jake's back of course, seeing as how Jake
was the one who wanted to re-record these songs the most. And since Jake always claimed
that Tucker "plays drums like a pussy", Tucker would be sure to make the drums sound as
badass as possible. It would be called "WhyteHog 2.0" because it would be the second recorded
versions of the songs (And also because only two guys worked on it).
The songs would be released via a new website without any warning. Friends of the band would be totally
surprised and super stoked and would probably start donating money to Tucker and Jonathan out
of pure glee. Jake on the other hand would be shocked and pissed and maybe hurt. He would
ask "why the hell did you guys do this behind my back?", to which the other guys would
say "because you're gay". But really they did it because it had to be done at some point
before they got too old and lame. And what better way to do it than a big prank on Jake?
Tucker would record a new song called "Oh Jake!". A video for the song would be posted on the new
website as a half assed apology.
So that's pretty much the story so far. Ideally Jake will get pissed, but then think its funny, and then
decide that he is interested in working on some new songs before being a lawyer. At which
point Tucker will email him and Jonathan some demos that he's been working on, and
somehow the three of them will find a way to record a new album while living in different cities.
If instead, Jake gets too much sand in his vagina and says he doesn't want to be friends anymore,
then Tucker will just record the drum parts on his own again and it will be dope.
Stay tuned to see what happens next!
WhyteHog Rocks!
So, a couple months ago, I get a call from my buddy, T-Bag, and he's all like "dude, I totally think it'd be
crazy hilarious to re-record some of the old Whytehog songs, but not tell Jake and then have
him be totally surprised when we're all done." At first I was pretty excited even though it
just sorta sounded like a major pipe dream, but then it really started to seem like it would happen.
It was around this time that I was like, "T-Bag, don't you think this might sort of be a mean
thing to do to Jake?" and T-Bag was like "naw, man, he's gonna think it's hilarious!"
So, in the end, I decided to go along with his nutty idea.
I'd also like to explain to the best of my ability, the nickname, Whitehog. (not to be mistaken with the
band name, Whytehog, which was born from the nickname. Genius.) In highschool, I pretty
much just wore whatever my mother bought for me. There was one pair of khaki trousers I
wore (pleated, I believe) that were about three shades whiter than everyone else's khakis. These
khakis might as well have been white pants. William Kaminski would often pick on me for
wearing such white pants, sometimes even resorting to physical abuse and mental torment. He
would often say things like, "Hey, where's my sunglasses, y'all? Batchelor's got on those stupid
white pants again!" and "don't you have any money to go buy some real pants, whitey?"
Very upsetting. William had taken to calling me "white" and "whitey." As time passed on, he would
add things onto the end, like "white-dog" and "white-stack." One day, William and Mark Wheeler
were walking to school from the sophomore parking lot and one of them said
something like, "where is white-frog's car?" and the other said, "did you just say white-hog?"
Alas, this is how my nickname was born.
