![]() ![]() The loss brought the surviving band members back together to play a tribute show for him the following Christmas. ![]() On May 7, 2000, Shannon Yarbrough was killed in an automobile accident. ![]() Over the next two years, Taggart, Brooks, and Yarbrough moved to Brooklyn, New York, while White returned to Berkeley and continued to play with Pinhead Gunpowder, eventually joining Green Day. Unable to reach a consensus of where to move, the group disbanded. ![]() This incarnation of the band won local accolades, continued to write and record, and eventually toured the midwest and northeast United States with the thought of relocating. Pinhead Gunpowder's Jason White (who had previously played in Chino Hoarde), moved back from Berkeley, California to Arkansas to replace him. In 1994, Shannon Yarbrough, Taggart's former bandmate in 5-0, joined the band. They made their live debut at a New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1993. Each of the members had grown up in and around Little Rock, Arkansas and played together in earlier bands. The Big Cats formed in 1993 following the breakups of Burt Taggart's previous band, Chino Horde, and Colin Brooks and Josh Bentley's band, Substance. They were formed in 1993 by members of various Little Rock punk bands, but shifted their sound from punk rock to early rock and roll. The Big Cats are an American rock band from Little Rock, Arkansas. ![]()
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