I've still got a JOT cassette tape that they recorded there at 52nd & College. It's got some fantastic songs on it, Bad Ass Burgler, School of the World, Funk Thing, Mudshark, Iron Worm, Long Way... damn they were a good band.

I remember giving Jim Black a ride up to Fortville, In. so he could audition for JOT... that first day listening to him and Vess jamming on a few Led Zepplin tunes and it was easy to see that they were going to be a really good band.

FYI: this song loads into iTunes as United States Three. I never saw them, but everyone I knew then did, and, I definitely remember the name. Did the drummer go to Pike High? Reminds me of punk like Descendants, but edgier.

I was fortunate enough to see this band play probably on the order of 50 or so times. Tom Watts was the lead singer, Vess Ruhtenberg on guitar and backing vocals, Nick Adams on bass, and Jim Black on drums. Later Nick Adams was replaced with Mark (I can't remember his last name) and later Vess left the band and was replaced (I'm not sure by who). I grew up around this band and Jim is the best drummer I've ever heard, and one of the best musicians I've ever known. It's a shame that very little of their music has survived. Superbia wasn't even one of their better songs.

Vess is on this site so y'all know what happened to him. Last I knew Jim was playing guitar with Tim Brickley and the Bleeding Hearts, and Tom Watts was with the now defunct rock gods, Pizzle. Pizzle fizzle? Not sure about anyone else.

I remember these guys. I was in a band called Honourable Schoolboy and we came down from the region to play a show with them at the the Hoosier Ballroom. They were like 16 years old and they blew us off the stage.
Luckily the weather was crap and no one saw it.