User:Midwest.records.1991

Midwest Records was created in 1991 by Charles Pratt while attending the University of Northern Iowa. The band Berinobis was the first band signed to the label in early 1992. Consisting of Ed Berinobis, John Berinobis, John Fink and Cody Brunning.

A previously recorded album by the band Berinobis (Berinobis - Silent No More) with Allen as the lead singer was included in the label's catalog and promoted by the label.

If memory serves me correctly, the first vocalist for the Berinobis band was a guy named Allen, who was the original lead singer for the band Atomic Opera that included Jim Root (of Slipknot fame) out of Des Moines, Iowa. Further research will figure out Allen's last name. Jim Root did meet Ed Berinobis and they did play together for a awhile.

As a youngster, Corey Taylor of the band Slipknot was a guitar student of Ed Berinobis during his time in Waterloo, Iowa.

It is my belief Ed Berinobis is the true beginning of all new music coming out of Iowa upon the release of the 1989 "Berinobis - Silent No More" album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWKcBCKpxM). Prior to this album, there was no seriously original, high level music coming out of Iowa.

Ed Berinobis should be considered the Mozart of our time in Iowa, no doubt. Perhaps the musicians who came in contact with him kept him a secret as it would probably lessen their own value and originality.