Gizburg Duck has been a part of the youth culture of Potosi, Missouri for almost 10 years. Kinda. It began when Travis Tucker came up to Paul McCoy in the high school marching band room in early 2000 and said he thought it'd be cool to rock out the Washington County Fair Talent Show. Paul thought sounded like a pretty nifty idea, and they recruited the help of fellow band geeks Nick French and Mike Henson to play drums and bass, respectively. Paul played guitar, Travis sang, and they learned to play "The Shadow of Seattle" by Marcy Playground. On the application for the talent show, there was a space for "group name", and out of boredom in class, Travis was practicing calligraphy with made up words and playing with a rubber duckie, when he wrote Gizburg Duck, and figured it was as good of a band name as anything else. A few days later they rocked everyone's socks off, and Travis and Paul decided they needed to start doing it more often. Mike and Nick decided to pursue separate musical paths, so then Paul asked his sister Sarah to join the band, and the three of them started writing all kinds of crazy songs. Eventually they realized that to rock peoples socks off they would have to play in front of people, and to do that, they would need a more complete band. So Travis asked classmates Shaun Gibson and Josh Litton to join up. They really didn't know how to play anything, but they threw Josh behind a set of drums and slapped a bass in Shaun's hands, and they both picked them up amazingly fast. So Gizburg Duck started playing at birthday parties and backyard shows and city parks and anywhere people would let 'em, and it was pretty cool. Then, a few days after the fourth birthday party that Brian Spath had in 2002, Shaun quit the band due to artistic differences or something crazy like that. Sarah picked up the bass and followed in his footsteps. And for a time, it was good. They peaked up to the highlight of the life of Gizburg Duck-- their first REAL show. It was at the Creepy Crawl in St. Louis, and although it wasn't special by Creepy Crawl standards, they all agreed that it was the coolest thing they'd ever done, and that they should try to do it again soon. Everything went downhill from there. For months, nobody could ever seem to get motivated to practice. Travis was always with his girlfriend, Sarah was always at school, Paul was always at work, and Josh was always asleep. They still liked rocking out, and got together every few months, but the lack of practice was really showing, and it got to where it wasn't fun anymore. Then Travis left for the army, and then Sarah the band due to artistic differences or something crazy like that, and then Josh and Paul couldn't do it by themselves. So they stopped caring, and Gizburg Duck died.
In mid 2005, Gizburg Duck was reborn when Paul and Josh moved to St. Louis and met bassist Syrhea Conaway. They found a couple of sweet spots to play, including Frederick's Music Lounge and the Way Out Club. It was looking pretty hopeful for a while. However, in early 2006, Syrhea decided to quit the band due to artistic differences or something crazy like that. Soon after that Paul and Josh both became homeless, jobless, cashless bums.
In the beginning of 2008, Gizburg Duck was reborn yet again when they recruited longtime friend Danny Warren to play bass and/or keyboard. Although he eventually left the band due to artistic differences or something crazy like that, he was shortly thereafter replaced by former Homegrown bassist Leif Mathis, also a longtime friend and member of Paul's dad's church. On Halloween of 2009, Paul, Josh, and Leif played the first Gizburg Duck show in almost 4 years.
Afterwards, the three of them decided to start writing music to reflect their shared faith in Jesus Christ. Currently, Gizburg Duck is working hard in the studio, recording what is to hopefully become their first studio quality, full length, bona fide album, containing a mix of new Christian songs and their old mainstream-type music, as well as an all-Christian demo CD that they plan to send out to local churches, hoping to get gigs for youth groups and the like.