Rick Valentin and Rose Marshack are married and have hosted the long running podcast Radio Zero since 1999. They both are professors in the Arts Technology program at Illinois State University.
The band was on the second stage for Lollapalooza in 1995.
Rick Valentin and Rose Marshack met in the mid-eighties at the University of Illinois and formed several bands in rapid succession. When the two met drummer Shannon Drew in 1987, their like-minded enthusiasm sparked the beginning of a new band, dubbed Poster Children. As Valentin explained in November 1991:
— Rick Valentin, in The New York Times , 1991
In 1991 Rick’s brother, Jim, replaced Dimpsey, and remains to this day. Tool of the Man was recorded in 1992 at Dreamland Studio in New York with John Herndon (celebrated Tortoise percussionist) on drums. Tool of the Man was also released in the UK on the Creation label. The track…
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A major label record deal was signed with Warner Bros. Records subsidiary Reprise Records . Over the next few albums, Poster Children would be shuffled from imprint to imprint within the Warner organization. Tracks for Daisychain Reaction were recorded by Steve Albini at the Chicago Recording Company in 1990, but…
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They began selling their first album Toreador Squat on cassette and playing clubs in the Midwest. The following year, the band recorded songs with producer Iain Burgess , followed by five more songs produced with Steve Albini : the resulting album Flower Plower was released in 1989 on the Limited…
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