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6 unusual facts about Idiot Flesh


Henny Penny

"Chicken Little" is a song from the 1997 album Fancy, by the California avantrock band Idiot Flesh; it contains the line 'The sky is falling, gotta tell the king'.

Idiot Flesh

Anderson went on to work with Les Claypool, Cirque du Soleil, The Fuxedos, Casino Royale, Kehoe Nation, and Schloss.

They changed their name to Idiot Flesh prior to the release of their first vinyl album, Tales of Instant Knowledge and Sure Death, in 1990, which also featured keyboardist Daniel Roth.

Extensive touring followed, including several runs with the Czech avant-punk band Už Jsme Doma.

The Nothing Show, their second album, appeared in 1993, and drummer Wes Anderson ("Hyena Boy") replaced Squier.

Vaccination Records

VAC015, Idiot Flesh's Fancy has Rock Against Rock (their own label) logos within the digipak and standard jewel case releases, though no versions of Fancy have their own catalog number for said label while previous releases of theirs do; Vaccination Records took precedence for this release.


MoeTar

In 2010 they recorded their debut CD From These Small Seeds with engineer Dan Rathbun (of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Idiot Flesh).


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