A little known fact about the Spitvalves: As some of you may know, the current line up of the band is Charlie-vocals, Tito-drums, Bill-trombone, Chris-saxophone, Lance-bass, Mikey-guitar, Ricky-trumpet. Back in 1993, when the band was first put together, the original line up was supposed to be: Charlie-drums, Tito-trumpet and vocals, Jason-guitar, Shawn-bass, Bill-trombone, Freddy-trombone. It never happened. At the first practice, true to form today, everybody was late and someone forgot something. In this case Tito forgot his trumpet and decided to play drums for the day and have charlie sing. Well it stuck, and from there on Tito stayed on the drums and Charlie kept singing. At that same time the Spitvalves weren't even the Spitvalves yet. Names like 'Ed's Beans' and 'Darlene's Biscuits' were being thrown around for the band. hmmm...no. So one day at a practice, the horn players were emptying out their spitvalves and Jason asked them what they were doing. You can pretty much figure it out from there. The name seemed too perfect and it stuck. Since then members have come and gone, but with the current line-up we've been working our butts off. We've been booking our own tours, doing our own merchandise, putting out our CD's on own label with the help of very good friends - without whom a lot things wouldn't be possible for us. We blend a variety of music to create our one of a kind sound. We are heavily influenced by all regions of music. We blend Ska with Hardcore and Hip Hop to make the fast aggressive music that everyone who has heard or seen us live have become to like us.