Veruca Salt's Future Unclear As Gordon Leaves Band

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Nina Gordon, a co-founder of Chicago-based rock band Veruca Salt, has left to pursue other interests, according to Dennis Dennehy, the band's spokesman at Geffen Records.

"Nina has left the band and the future of Veruca Salt is uncertain at this point," Dennehy told JAMTV on Monday. Because Gordon, Veruca Salt co-founder Louise Post and the rest of the band spent most of 1997 on the road, Dennehy said the news came as a surprise to him. He also said he wasn't aware of any internal conflicts between the two songwriters.

Veruca Salt first received worldwide recognition with the release of 1994's America Thighs, which spawned the hit "Seether." The group, which also features bassist Steve Lack and former Letters To Cleo drummer Stacy Jones, released their second album, Eight Arms To Hold You, in early 1997.

Neither Dennehy nor Veruca Salt's management, Q Prime, had any more information at this time.

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“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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