The Goat and the Occasional Others

The Goat & the Occasional Others is a Los Angeles-based garage band which formed in 2007 by two skateboarders with too much time on their hands and too much creative energy to keep bottled up.

Andrew Reynolds (guitar) and Shane Heyl (vox) were quickly joined by their good friends and fellow professional skateboarders Kevin "Spanky" Long (guitar) and Beagle Oneism (drums) to create the Goat's first record, a vinyl 10" self-titled EP released in 2008 as a promotional item in very limited quantities by Altamont Apparel Ltd., Reynolds' Los Angeles-based skateboard clothing company featuring the band logo and cover artwork designed by the notorious graffiti writer NECKFACE.

Soon after this first release, The Goat added award-winning skateboard photographer Atiba Jefferson on keyboards to complete the line up. Throughthis much sought after release and some energetic and intense early live shows, The Goat quickly established a cult following amongst everyone from their fellow professional skateboarders like Eric Koston and Guy Mariano, to plus-sized porn model Crystal Clear and movie actor Ryan Gosling.

Gosling, a musician himself in the band Dead Man's Bones, introduced the band to the label Werewolf Heart Records (Gosling's label with fellow Dead Man Zach Shields and record producer/ Ima Robot band member Tim Anderson) in Los Angeles, for whom The Goat just finished recording their first full length entitled The Goat Speaks to be released February 9th, 2010.

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