While drummer Tim Kaesemacher kept busy playing with Denver rockabilly bands the Jinns and the Hillbilly Hellcats, psychobilly surf-punk act Jetredball and a number of others starting in the late ’80s, it’s been about a decade since he played his last live gig. Kaesemacher, who taught drums for about fifteen years, had back issues that made it painful for him to sit at his kit, which he eventually sold.
But three years ago, Kaesemacher went out to his tool shed and saw a kid s bow-and-arrow set and a five-gallon plastic Homer bucket that he took the handle off “so it doesn t rattle too much.” He put the bow on top of the bucket, took a little beater from an Irish drum and started playing the makeshift instrument, bending the bow and thinking, “This kind of sounds cool.”