However, as many young musicians will tell you, there’s nowhere quite like university to find other young musicians, and through mutual friends Genaro met the future rhythm section of the band. For the time being, The Dead Milkmen were, for lack of a better word, dead. However while Genaro left home to attend Philadelphia’s Temple University, Garth joined the United States Air Force.
The project never really left Genaro’s bedroom but the duo wrote and recorded constantly until they reached college age, giving the budding guitarist an abundance of experience in writing tongue in cheek lyrics and jangly, three chord punk rock. The pair came up with a fictional punk band called The Dead Milkmen, and began writing and recording cassette tapes of songs that were said to be written by this conceptual rock band. The satirical punk band began life as the home recording project of singer and guitarist Joe Genaro, and a friend of his from school called Garth.
