Devon Colburn

My first true wish was to be a cowboy. But that foolish boyhood fantasy was soon ended (When I was 16), when Duncan and I discussed starting a band. He'd already had a name, and he knew that I played the acoustic guitar. Soon after, we started jamming. Right from the start, Trinity was also part of the group. She wasn't just Duncan's girlfriend, she was a true musician. She was a great piano player in the school band. We, truthfully, didn't have too much trouble until we realized something about our songs. They were really bad.

Trinity O'Leary

After the first few years of playing together as RCK, the group started having trouble. But I can't help but feel responsible. Duncan and I had married in the fall of 1993, but it ended in a short bitterness in late1993. We stayed together, remarkably, and Duncan and I have put the bad times in the past, although not forgetting them. Since that time, though, most of my songs have revolved slightly around relationships, although some are just let-loose sort of songs.

Bruce Thompkins

I started with a group called CRIPPLED RABBI. We played a punk/ska mix, which was the reason for my strange choice of instruments. My grandfather was a polka writer and performer back in the heyday of polka, and my cousin, Mary, once gave me a didgeridoo from a visit to Australia. I occasionally play the flute or the oboe, but somehow my two main instruments always seem to make their way into Knuckles' music.

Jenna Sieman

Being the youngest of the group, and coming in fairly late, I'd imagine the band thought I was fairly new to music. They never said so, but I suspected they might. But, on that fateful day in late 1991, I (In Duncan's words) "Blew (them) away." My, if I may say so, fluid rendition of QUEEN's "Bicycle Race" was one of my best performances to date. They talked for about five minutes, giving me enough time to sweat a little, and came out announcing that they couldn't use me. I almost cried. Almost, I say, because when they saw my initial reaction, they told me the truth, I was their new drummer.

Duncan Matthews

The name "Rubber Chicken Knuckles" was the result of a 30-hour contemplation bender. The name represents the idea of chickens having, in place of brass knuckles, rubber knuckles, because I felt that chickens are a rather passive species, and would like to only stun their victims, rather than causing them serious head trauma. Actually, although I was up for 30 hours (watching a Star Trek marathon), in reality, the name just popped into my head. So there. You beat it out of me.

(Rubber Chicken Knuckles: A History, was arranged by Jason Klamm.)