"Our first rehearsal was right before Christmas 1991, it was me, original drummer Pete and our friend Mike on vocals. We wrote "Depression" and "Isolation", which was called "Everybody Dies" at that point. Next rehearsal was Randy on vocals and Jay on bass. Randy couldn't swing it so he moved to bass, Jay to 2nd guitar and Jeff decided to sing. That was the first lineup. We did the first EP, the Dismal 12" and the split with 13 on my label Grievance records. Then the Dystopia guys put out the split with them. We toured the West
Coast in 1993. Then, since 4/5's of us were still in Disrupt, we toured Europe as Disrupt in the fall of '93. Came home, broke up, and Grief was my only thing from then on. Jay split and Pete left too; he just wasn't playing too good so rather than kick him out, he left. We got Rick on drums and signed to Century Media for the Come to Grief album, did the album and got another guitarist, Steve Nelson. He didn't last but recorded 3 split EPs with us. Then we toured the US with ENT. Century Media dropped us, we signed to Pessimiser for Miserably Ever After. Did many, many shows, another split EP and then Rick left. Couldn't find a drummer at all so Randy went down to drums, Eric who did our artwork joined on bass. Then we recorded Torso; also for Pessimiser.
Randy split, this is 1997 I think...we got Tim Morse from Anal Cunt on drums but he left before the 'Tourso' which was an East Coast tour with 16. We did it as a 3-piece!!! With Jeff on drums and vocals. As you can imagine, that didn't work out too good. Came home and almost called it a day...then we got Chuck Conlon on drums and recorded Man Will Become the Hunted, which turned out to be our last album. Chuck lasted exactly a year, poor kid, we fucked him up bad!!! Rick came back in what, 1999? yeah... then we toured the West Coast again in 2000, our last show ended up being at Mission Records in San Francisco, although we didn't know it then. We were so burnt out on each other and the struggling band situation that we were gonna play CBGB's on New Years Eve 2000/2001 and call it, but there was a motherfucker snow storm and we didn't get to go...rehearsed till about April and finally said "that's it". We had a few drummers in all this that I didn't mention, not worth mentioning except our friend Pete Cassin, who had to leave to go to college.... whew!!!!
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