The band signed to the Warner subsidiary Giant for 1993’s Inhaler but while touring with Soundgarden they were dropped after a promotional poster emerged which featured a photograph of Bill Clinton with a marijuana joint superimposed between his fingers. TAD’s luck fared little better after the band left Sub Pop, whose coffers had strained under these legal issues. Another lawsuit was filed against the band’s first label, Sub Pop, when a disgruntled former employee informed a certain fizzy drinks company that their logo had been modified for TAD’s Jack Pepsi single. In the years since the picture was taken, the woman had become a born-again Christian and when she stumbled upon TAD’s record she decided to sue. Its original cover featured a photograph, found in a thrift store, of a trashy and inebriated couple, the man cupping the lady’s breasts which were wrapped in just a bandana. Over the course of their career, which lasted from 1988 to their split in 1999, the band experienced a string of unusual mishaps.Ĩ-Way Santa had to be pulled from shelves and reissued with alternative artwork. TAD, meanwhile, tended to attract misfortune. Initially drawing as much limelight as their friends and touring partners Nirvana, TAD would go on to watch many of their fellow Seattle residents soar to fame and fortune. The opening track from 1991’s 8-Way Santa boasts grinding riffs and lurching rhythms as frontman Tad Doyle snarls the fate-tempting chorus, “I’m a jinx/I’m a jinx/Bad luck follows everywhere.” IF TAD’s career could be summarised by one of their own songs, it would have to be Jinx.

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