Jeremy Porter & The Tucos Christmas song he had written for the annual Suburban Sprawl Music Christmas Compilation. Jeremy recruited drummer and multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Doman (The Hotwalls) and bassist Jason Bowes (The OffRamps, Fidrych, Culture Bandits) to round out the trio for the recording session. The lineup would remain intact for four years. The band's name is based on the character Tuco Ramirez, played by actor Eli Wallach in "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" and was an alternative to a suggestion by original bassist Jason Bowes, who proposed The Mortimers, after the Lee Van Cleef character when the band found that a punk
Clint Eastwood in the 1960s all three were generally given bad reviews by critics (despite select American critics, who had seen the films in Italy, previously having positive outlooks) and marked the beginning of Eastwood's battle to win the respect of American film critics. Judith Crist described "A Fistful of Dollars" as "cheapjack" while "Newsweek" described "For a Few Dollars More" as "excruciatingly dopey". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was similarly panned by most critics upon US release. Renata Adler of "The New York Times" describing it as "the most expensive, pious and repellent movie in the history of its peculiar genre". "Variety"