The band was formed in late 1993 by Chris Ballew (bass guitar and lead vocals) and Dave Dederer (guitar and backup vocals), who met at school in Seattle. Ballew had previously been in a punk- busker band called Egg, who wrote many songs that would later be turned into Presidents songs. Initially a drummerless duo, Ballew and Dederer performed a few shows in 1993 as “the Lo-Fis”, “the Dynamic Duo”, and “Pure Frosting”. Ballew eventually came upon the name “the Presidents of the United States of America”. Shortly after, Ballew and Dederer added drummer Jason Finn; the band played their first show as a trio at Seattle’s Romper Room in early December 1993. At the time, Finn was also the drummer for Love Battery , who had recently changed record labels from Sub Pop to Atlas Records , an A&M subsidiary.
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