"I found out that when Tad was a teenager he played jazz...

"I found out that when Tad was a teenager he played jazz drums at the White House for President Nixon. We didn't want people to think that maybe he was a refined intellectual and a jazz prodigy, so we tried to put a lid on that story."

—Sub Pop Records cofounder Bruce Pavitt, on Tad Doyle (third from left)

(Photo courtesy of Sub Pop)