Rude Awakening

Local H formed as a result of a high school band that Scott Lucas and Matt Garcia were in called Rude Awakening, in 1987. That year, while attending high school in Zion, Scott Lucas and Joe Daniels began jamming together, along with Matt Garcia and John Sparkman. Local H was formed in 1990, performing their first show on April 20, 1990, at the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater . Sparkman left the band on April 4, 1991. Local H released Drum , their first extended play , in 1991. Garcia left on January 26, 1993, and Lucas and Daniels began looking for a replacement bassist. They eventually decided to carry on as a duo with Lucas’s friend Tobey Flescher, who modified his guitar to produce lower-pitched sounds in the bass guitar range. Local H played their first show as a duo on September 3, 1993. The name of the band was taken from a combination of two R.E.M. songs, “Oddfellows Local 151” and “Swan Swan H.”