The Ho Hos: “Snowball”

Detail: The Ho Hos pop-up promo, 1994This number ties up a few narrative strands and bridges the San Diego-to-San Francisco gap that defined much of our post-Che Underground history.

“Snowball” is a song I wrote for 3 Guys Called Jesus in 1986. It’s performed here by the Ho Hos, the mid-’90s San Francisco group of San Diego expats that comprised me on vocals and guitar; ex-Morlocks bassist Jeff Lucas; Robert Labbe (former drummer for 3 Guys, the Forbidden Pigs and myriad other outfits); and Steve Lam, a marvelous guitarist and vocalist who met us in SF by way of Hong Kong. (Speaking of musical Che-chairs, this was a dream lineup for me.)

This track was recorded in 1994 at Mr. Toad’s in San Francisco; proprietor Tardon Feathered and future Amazons bassist Jason Brownell excelled as engineer and producer, respectively. It appeared on our “Ho’s Next” demo.

Listen to it now!

4 thoughts on “The Ho Hos: “Snowball”

  1. Paul: Technology marched on between the ’80s and ’90s … While video of our older bands are rare as hen’s teeth, I bet there are 10 Hi-8 videos of the Ho Hos playing “Cry Baby Cry”! (We were videotaped a lot more often than audiotaped.)

    Per your request, I’ve got a team of ethnomusicologists combing the files for the best version to share. 🙂

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  2. Matthew, this is great! This is probably the catchiest song I’ve ever heard by you…I really like it a lot. The guitar player is cool too… I love that little weird dissonant lick he plays about 3/4 of the way through.

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  3. Thanks, Dave! Yeah, Steve is an incredible guitarist … He’s played in a lot of SF projects with our friends, including a post-modern oldies cover band with Fleminger and Labbe that has the greatest name: The Butcher Covers. 🙂

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