The Naked Skinnies were a new wave band from Ohio that featured

Mark Eitzel Mark Eitzel (born January 30, 1959) is an American musician, best known as a songwriter and lead singer of the San Francisco band American Music Club. Biography Eitzel spent his formative years in a military family living in Okinawa, Taiwan, Ohi ...

, guitar and vocals, Nancy Kangas, organ; John Hricko, bass and Greg Bonnell, drums. The band was active from 1981 to 1982 in

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...

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. They released one single in 1981. Greg Bonnell continued to perform in an early version of

American Music Club American Music Club was an American, San Francisco-based indie rock band, led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel. Formed in 1983, the band released seven albums before splitting up in 1995. They reformed in 2003 and released two further albums. ...

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. John Hricko went on to drum for San Francisco band, The Invertebrates.

Discography

*'' All My Life / This Is The Beautiful Night'' (7") - Naked House Records - 1981

References

*Wish The World Away: Mark Eitzel and the American Music Club by Sean Body, SAF Publishing, Ltd. (April 1999), ,

External links

* Mark Eitzel's Allmusic entrybr>Discography of Ohio Art and Pop 1977-1983 by Henry Weld.
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