Old Skull

Hardcore punk's answer to the Shaggs (or maybe Jordy), Old Skull were a novelty coup in their original incarnation: a trio of nine-year-old boys who played their own instruments (more or less), and screamed out profanities and social protests with bratty aplomb. If their musicianship wasn't exactly precocious, some of their lyrical topics were, leading to rumors that producer Vern Toulon -- also the father of two Old Skull members -- had ghostwritten much, if not all, of their material. Thanks largely to their novelty appeal, Old Skull managed to score a deal with a prominent ...