Frozen Taco is Matt Reiss, Carlos Viera, Theron Welch, and David Dault. Copyright 1986-2005, Frozen Taco. Recorded in the Summer of 1986 at The Bedside, Columbus, Georgia. Special thanks to Glenn Nelson for his masterful performance on “Kentucky Fresh”

Listen to the entire album:

  1. Grammer
  2. Morbid Busstop
  3. Silver Linings
  4. Le Chanson
  5. Bingo
  6. Japanese Tourists
  7. Political Hell
  8. The Speed Of Sound
  9. Kentucky Fresh
  10. Sacred White Peacock
  11. Ft Gunz
  12. Fortson Vice
  13. Sierra
  14. Crystal Gardens

Frozen Taco II was produced during our high school years. Coming on the heels of the aptly named, “Frozen Taco I,” this album introduced Theron on the electric guitar. No longer relegated to playing a cardboard dulcimer with a spoon for a whammy bar, Theron made FT sound much more like a rock band. My favorite song is “Phil’s Army,”* sung by Carlos Viera about our high school principal. It’s a catchy, up tempo number. We tried to play it at a school dance, but the principal ordered the song to be turned off before it finished. Hence, the song attained mythological rebellion status for me – “Hear the song they don’t want you to hear!” Another anti-establishment song is “Morbid Busstop”, which is the closest FT ever got to punk rock. The song was actually covered by another local band, and we found out that “bootleg” copies of the song were distributed around the middle school. Fittingly, the middle school principal banned Morbid Busstop from his hallways. FT II was our creative, non-violent rebellion against authority. I suppose it features more banned songs than any other FT album.

  • Matthew Reiss, Kansas City 2004

Frozen Taco II was a bit of a rocky album for the budding band. Carlos rarely showed up, as I recall, and so most songs were done exclusively by Matt, Dave, and I. Also, somewhere around this time, we were recording and rerecording songs like “Phil’s Army” and “Dead End” that would ultimately end up on the opus, “The Complete Frozen Taco”. As such, this album is a bit neglected although some of the songs show the more serious side of Frozen Taco starting to emerge.

  • Theron Welch, Seattle 2004

FT was never properly a “band” – it was more like an alternate reality or performance art, to me at least. Soon after the four of us had solidified into the “classic” lineup of Stantz, Ron, Carlos, and Dave we incorporated FT into our speech, our school, our outlook and our attitude. Nobody understood when we scrawled “Frozen Taco Rules!” on the blackboards or proclaimed it to each other in the hallways, but it was a rallying point for us to stand together against the foolishness we saw and lived. Carlos, looking back later, summed it up best: “There is life outside of Frozen Taco, but not a good life.” As I look back now, I was – we were all – too young to know what that meant and too headstrong not to blow it. But Frozen Taco Two is the snapshot of the band at its best – creative, crazy, defiant, and together.

  • David Dault, Nashville 2004

* The original version of “Phil’s Army” appeared on the original release of “Frozen Taco II”. However, with the better remake that appears on “The Complete Frozen Taco”, “Frozen Taco II” was updated to not include this original version. That version can now be found on the updated edition of “The Complete Frozen Taco” under the title, “Phil’s Army (Pots and Pans)”.

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