ONE DARK RABBIT
Years Playing 1985 - 1986
Members:
         Paul Fredric McAtee- Guitar
         Eric Williams - Vocals
         Jim Graham - Drums
         Pat Egan (Jr) - Bass
Releases:
         Self Titled cassette
Members came from: My Three Sons, October Wedding
Members went to: gel-403" class="band-link">Morphine Angel, Red Max

From Paul Fredric McAtee: This was basically our highschool band. Eric and I were from South East, Jim and Pat were Pius X boys. The band started with Jim and I. He was easily the most talented and the most experienced - he had an older brother or something and had been gigging since he was 12. Along with Randy Krause and Paul Tisdale, Jim was one of the best drummers in Lincoln that I ever knew. And certainly the best I ever worked with. In fact, I don't even bother with drummers anymore - machines are far more reliable.

No one was doing the gothic thing back then. There were older kids doing post-punk stuff, but if you wore black back then it was considered 'wierd'. All the other bands our age were doing hardcore. Eric and I were trying to sound like Bauhaus and Joy Division. Jim and Pat wanted to do the Cult/Metallica thing. We played a couple of shows at the Brickyard. After our first show there, Lori Allison (later from the Millions) came up to Eric and gave him a big hug. We also played outdoors at Jackie Fynbu's birthday party, and once at a vacant Highschool somewhere in the country with Brown Machine. That's where I met Carl Gibson, who years later would do a tour of duty with me in gel-403" class="band-link">Morphine Angel.

Eventually, senior year ended, and we all went on to college. Jim went to KC Art Institute, so that was it for ODR. For a moment, I thought we were going to have one more show at the Drumstick, but Jim wouldn't be there for it, so I found a Yamaha drum machine and started programming it for back-up. I realized how much I'd learned from Jim. We never did the show, but that's where my interest in electronics and sequencing was born, so I guess I have to thank Jim again for that.

I live in Houston now and am still doing music with Asmodeus X. Jim I heard moved to Seattle and became a big-time Cajun Chef and drummed for a Sub-Pop band. Eric recently returned to Lincoln after much cavorting about the U.S., and I heard Pat became an English Teacher somewhere.

The name "One Dark Rabbit" came from the book/film Watership Down. It's a metaphor for the death that unites all beings. Right there from the beginning I had a penchant for incorporating metaphyisics into my musical themes, a habit that would keep me on the fringe of the Lincoln music scene for years to come ;-)