In the fall of 1996, Tavo Diez de Bonilla and Rob Armstrong were teamep up in the psuedo grunge punk band, Myagi, along side Andrew Mavor on guitar & vocals and Rob McAlpine on guitar. The band only lasted for less then year, leaving only the Jake demo tape behind for fans (all two of them) to remember them by. Tavo continued to jam with both Mavor and Rob in seperate projects. Tavo and Mavor formed Unit 5 with Christian Parlee on Bass, starting where Myagi left off. This band lasted for less then two months and no shows were played. Christian pawned his bass for booze and Mavor began his Electronic music. But while one project was failing, the other was ....doing stuff. Rob and Tavo formed the two piece jam band Eggs Benedict & The Fruit Flavored Spring Waters which feaured Rob on guitar (his main instrument) rather than bass. EBATFFSW played numerous shows at the 10 Day (and nowhere else) and eventually recorded their first and only demo with Nick Kuepfer and Lenny Haggarty of Lungbutter. The demo was to be released on Nick and Lenny's label, Discount Records, but was never completed. At one of the last EBATFFSW shows at the 10 Day, Bruce Kernaghan entered the scene. " While we were playing, I noticed some tall guy with a leather jacket hitting on my friend Nadia." Tavo explains " At our next show, Rob introduced him to me and about a week after we formed Tasty." Tasty took the jam band aspect and different musical ideas that Rob and Tavo had been exploring with EBATFFSW and added more structure to their style. Rob also began sing as the band's frontman. With their first couple of jams, the group wrote songs like A Cerimonial Beginning, Drifting and Sail, and within two weeks, played their first show on the hill at Central Secondary High School in Stratford. By this point the band more songs like Deserted Soles, Sensed Image and Bruces Song about smokeing pot. Mant shows were played and many band aliances were made with local bands like Flamingo Fetus, The Outsiders, Pheska-9, Wax Elvis, The Mad Hatters, Broken Throttle, The Flying Bears of Vengance, and of course Lungbutter with whom many fights and riots were staged. These days the band is now more of a memory than a reality although it would almost seem that the fate of the band is still undecided. In February on 2000, the band played a 3 hour+ show at Backstage entitled "Last Show 4-Ever". A few weeks later they played at the 2000 30 Hour Famine in Stratford. In July of the same year Tasty played yet another "last show" at Rickett vs Tyranny I where the boys of Tasty went nuts and did a wreckless version of a Tasty set which included Rob in a dress, and Bruce smashing his 4-string to pieces. The band will be performing at Rickett vs Tyranny IV, and then maybe that will be their last show.
