• September 2002- Chuck joins with Drew, Tom, and Duffy, forming the  band.  According to Chuck, the first song played was Nirvana's “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. Duffy is gradually excluded over the following weeks.

• January 3, 2003- Drew throws a house party.  The band plays NOFX's "Murder the Government". Freedom's Slave (unplugged) and Side Defect (later The Defective/Mundo Rojo) also play.

• March , 2003- Tom becomes the band's guitarist for about 10 months, though he couldn't yet play guitar and sing at the same time.

• December 27, 2003- The band, now called Brain Atrophy, plays The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" with Drew's dad singing, followed by "Shut Your Corncake" at a holiday party.

• Mid January 2004- Drew and Tom join a second band (eventually named named it P.I.E. [Political Issue Entertainment]).  The idea to merge bands was considered, but after an attempted double band practice, it was clear this wasn't gonna work out.

• Late January 2004- Kevin joins the band as the new guitarist.

• February 27, 2004- Business cards reading "(NO NAME YET)" are made and brought to the Goshen Fire Hall to be given out at a hardcore show. This turned out to be entirely unproductive.

• February 29, 2004- The band receives an offer from Mystic Records to appear on the expanded CD reissue of the 1983 compilation LP We Got Power: Party or Go Home. The band failed to meet the April deadline for submitting a song, but several free Mystic CDs later came in the mail without explanation.

• March 1, 2004- The first website goes up on GeoCities. The heading reads "We Need A Band Name".  The next day a mutual friend agrees to makes a new, more skillful website.  Without a finalized name, the heading of the page reads "Brain Atrophy (tentative name)".

• March 4-9, 2004- The band is named Deep Throat, which is dropped in less than a week.

• March 20, 2004- First show with Reprover, Thoughts of Yesterday and Man Down at an abandoned house in Reprover Dan's woods. The new band name was originally intended to be voted on by the audience but, without many options put forward (or audience members to do the voting), DOI is chosen right before the show. The flyers for the show listed the band as Deep Throat.

• April 27, 2004- Kevin is kicked out of the band.

• May 4, 2004- Tom quits the band.

• May 2004- Drew and Chuck regroup, at first with Kevin, and then with Tucker and Dan B., as Odds Against. Drew and Tom briefly join an aimless band called The Down Rising.  Drew also joins Reprover as the drummer but is replaced before any further shows.

• June 5, 2004- First show as Odds Against in Drew’s basement with Man Down, The Domino Theory, and Mundo Rojo.

• June 17, 2004- Odds Against show at a party in Downingtown.

• July 23, 2004- Odds Against show at Fennario in West Chester, PA

• August 21, 2004 – Odds Against’s “Soup?” EP is released, featuring a handful of new songs, some covers, and reworked versions of “Shut Your Corncake” and “15 Years”. Odd's Against plays at the YWCA in West Chester, PA.

• August 28, 2004- Last Odds Against show at a party. Chuck couldn’t make it so Dan B. played bass and sang. Tom sang “Shut Your Corncake”.

• September 2004- Dan B. quits and the band quietly breaks up.

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• Late 2005 - The Good Griefs, a skacore band featuring Drew, Chuck, and Tucker, forms.

• February 3, 2006 - Tom joins The Good Griefs on vocals for their updated version of "Shut Your Corncake" at Grand Slam USA, Malvern, PA.

• May 2006 - The Good Griefs' Buried With Nothing EP is released.

• Late 2006 - Chuck leaves The Good Griefs.

• September 2007- The Good Griefs' self-titled EP is released.

• Early 2008 -The Good Griefs disband

• April 18, 2008 - Drop Out Academy, a pop-punk band featuring Tom, include his solo version of "Shut Your Corncake" on their "Down Boy" album.

• 2009-2010 - Mangrove Roots, a reggae band featuring Drew and Tucker, form and play live several times.

 

• December 15, 2012 – Drew initiates talk of a reunion practice with Chuck and Tom.

• December 27, 2012- Drew, Chuck, and Tom jam together for the first time since 2004. Starting out as a casual, holiday party-type thing, DOI soon resumes regular activity.

• January 7, 2013 – With the back-catalog brushed up, work on new material begins.

• April 6, 2013 – DOI enters Noisy Little Critter Studio to record their proper debut, “Cooked Clay Samuelson”, with Mike Bardzik (The Boils) producing and Mark Delguzzo (Last Day Dying) performing additional vocals on “Shut Your Corncake”. It was completed in one 11 hour session.

• April 15, 2013 – Cooked Clay Samuelson is released, both digitally and as a run of 50 physical CD's. The first copy is sold to someone in Iowa who requested an autograph.

• April 27, 2013- DOI performs live for the first time in nine years at The New Button in West Chester, PA with Barncat, Rollin’ Loaded, Queen Wolf, and The Sixties.  To jokingly inflate the band's image as old local legends, the hoax-bootleg cassette, "Back From the Dead After Six Years of Touring In Hell", containing artificially distressed, original-era band practice recordings, was handed out by a friend of the band to a few unsuspecting showgoers.

• May 13, 2013 - "Brains" is included on Family Fabric Records' "The New Button & Friends Compilation", a 62 track digital compilation (no longer available) of bands that had played at The New Button.

• May 24, 2013 – DOI performs live at Fennario in West Chester, PA with Qwirk and Atom Outcome.

• December 15, 2013 - Dan H. joins DOI as the new lead singer.

• August 10, 2014- DOI's new website is launched.

• September 2014- Mistah Box becomes DOI's hype man and secondary singer.

• October 5, 2014- DOI's show at Mojo 13 in Wilmington, DE, which was intended to be Dan and Box's live debut, is cancelled at the last minute. At least one person showed up to an empty building.

• January 17-2015- Recording sessions begin for DOI's follow-up to Cooked Clay Samuelson.

• July 2015- Box moves away to Ohio, parting ways with DOI before getting to set foot on stage with them.

• August 1, 2015- Dan's first show with DOI at The Nail in Ardmore, PA with Mutual Stereo, Government of Sheep, and more. Run in a battle of the bands-like manner, the promoters gave no advance knowledge of what other acts were sharing the stage or what the set times were to be. Cut for time (or possibly language), this was the only public DOI show to date to not include their signature song, "Shut Your Corncake".

• September 19, 2015- DOI's last show to date at Everybody Hits in Philadelphia, PA with Tangiers, The Retinas, and Old Scratch.

• November 2015- Work on the full-length DOI album comes to an unintended halt after near-completion.

• September 9, 2016-  Shaquille O'Neal's induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame. DOI doesn't end up playing the Shaq covers-only show that had been brought up toward the beginning of the reunion era.

• October 25, 2016- DOI goes on hiatus.

• May 3, 2017- A compilation containing finished songs from Your Ankles, Cooked Clay Samuelson highlights, and other tracks is proposed.  It quickly becomes clear that the previously shelved album's finishing touches are workable with some mild experimentation.

• May 9, 2017- A 10 track version of the album, now called Your Ankles, is prepared, but ultimately re-shelved.

• June 2, 2017- Last DOI practice to date. A short set is played for some friends who showed up later in the evening.

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• Mid 2017 - The Manipulators, a new reggae band consisting of Chuck, Tucker, and Jake is formed.

• October 31, 2017 - The Manipulators play their first show at The Barracks, Malvern, PA

• December 1, 2017 - The Manipulators' debut EP Paid In Strange is released.

• August 4, 2018 - The Manipulators' second EP Hidden In Plain View is released