Jeph Howard

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by Eugene Chadbourne
The perseverance of a dedicated lab assistant has to be praised from time to time. Other employees come and go, eyes on the clock; meanwhile, faithful Igor toils long and hard. The drone of his voice, working onward into the night, is a familiar sound when taking leave of one of the few premises on the face of the earth where someone makes an effort to distinguish between a bass player named Jeph Howard and another named Joe Howard.



"What is emoNULL" Igor is rasping into his phone receiver, the 15th time he has asked this question in 15 minutes to just as many so-called experts receiving his research calls.



"I can't tell you what it sounds like, but I know what they wear," comes the response, a familiar one. "There we go again!" Igor moans, slamming the phone down. He already knows what these guys look like, Jeph Howard and the band he is in, The Used. The band hails from Orem, UT: Mormon country. One member looked a bit like Jesus Christ Himself, but not once he got a shave.

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