Early History
The group was founded when Fun responded to a newspaper advertisement placed by Graf and Weasell, who were attempting to find a keyboard and saxophone player for a planned live band. For the first few years of their existence, however, the founding Weasels remained firmly home-bound, writing and recording tracks that would later appear on the discs Meat the Weasels Volume I: Fondue Cabaret and GenerationXcrement.
In 1992, The Weasels submitted a tape to the then-annual Metroland Ear Jam contest, and were selected as one of four finalists, despite the fact that no live version of the band existed. They quickly assembled and rehearsed a stage presentation of their material, and won generally positive audience and critical reviews for their performance, despite losing the contest to a defunct industrial metal band.
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