Italian Greyhound featured in CD Name & on Album Cover of the new Shellac CD titled "Excellent Italian Greyhound".
Named for Todd Trainer’s dog Uffizi“, Trainer explains: "When Uffizi was a puppy and would do something good, I would say, ‘Excellent Italian greyhound!'. Bob and Steve came to visit me and I was in the habit of saying that a lot. They picked it up and it became this phrase that we used for a while. If anything was really good, like you could be referring to your hotel room, the audience or whatever the case may be, you could say, ‘Wow, excellent Italian greyhound, that hotel room was awesome.’ To make it funny, we played a show that was a radio broadcast and one of us had said that in an interview. Later I saw that someone had bootlegged the show and was selling it on eBay. The bootleg was called Excellent Italian Greyhound, and when I saw it, I thought, we have to take that back if for nothing else than to rip off a bootlegger for the first time in history.”