By 1993, punk was broke and so were Surrender Dorothy. Bill's drug problem was spinning out of control, and the manager was certifiably insane. New Orleans didn't seem to like rock's next Valhalla, so Devin went back to Boston and Bill went home to his parents' house. Bill's younger brother Paul was also home for the Summer of 1994. Halfway through college in Jackson, Mississippi, with two boxes of home recordings and a cult following, Paul agreed to go into the studio with Bill near their parents' home in Mobile, Alabama. He also decided to record an EP. Youngest brother Matt had just been thrown out of Troy State with his best friend and band partner Pat Mangum. The two had been performing a body of original work around the campus that had included binges, fights and riots. They were obviously ready for DAT.

With the added talents of Bill's old college bandmate, Heather Reeves, the fivesome entered Music Box studios in Chickasaw, Alabama in June of 1994, intent on emerging with four separate collections. In the meantime, the Hough brothers began collaborating late at night in the family garage. By the end of the Summer, there were recordings flying out of the homestead. In an effort to track and control the output, the brothers formed garageDog records. They also formed a band.

Initially playing as the Musical Nazis, the brothers traveled around the South and released three records before Matt took a job in the Virgin Islands. The name Musical Nazis was dropped - it was a joke that had grown too difficult to explain, and the band wanted to escape the skinhead assholes who kept showing up at gigs. Renamed Automuff, Bill and Paul played nine months of punk shows in Jackson, Mississippi, to a small but dedicated following. They became infamous for their Saturday night "two guys, four hours, no repeats, no breaks" shows at a local pool hall.

Bill headed to Boston in September of 1996, to join old friends Heather Reeves, and Devin McGuire from Surrender Dorothy. Devin introduced Bill to Rick Berlin, a local legend and fixture in the rock fringe since the mid-1970's. Rick gave Bill his first gigs in town. at the hooker/tranny bar Jacques and the two struck up a friendship that would define the next 12 months. After a bulk of lawsuit cash came in (testicles and floor glue, don't ask) the Hough brothers joined Bill in Somerville, Massachusetts, in April of 1997.

Luck and an old demo landed the newly named garageDogs in clubs nearly every week through the summer and early fall. A growing following and Bill's highly publicized performance of Riff Raff in the Boston Rock Opera's "Rocky Horror" in October raised the band's profile quickly. In October, the Dogs and a handful of local bands helped Berlin launch the critically acclaimed, but mostly misunderstood "Rock-n-Roll Romance Revival" shows around Boston. They also caused such a stir at Mama Kin for Rock-the-Block, that their shirts were ripped from their backs by a throng of 13-year-old girls after a rousing rendition of Heroes with Rick Berlin and Space Pussy's Ryan Landry. Landry then teamed up with the Dogs for two off-the-wall shows at parties for local planner/promoter Bryan Rafanelli.

After a "dream gig" with Berlin at CBGB's, garageDog records proudly released Ricks new album "Live at Jacques", in conjunction with Rick and Control Freak Inc. Once the buzz died down a bit, garageDogs the band went into the studio to record "Record" in the Summer of 1998. The band wanted to create an album that would be as unconventional as their live shows. Outside of the band, Paul's popular guest appearances with Berlin and Boston mavericks Wide Iris, and Matt's room-clearing stand up comedy continued to create a mythos around the garageDogs. Bill's further collaboration with Ryan Landry on music for.. "the infamous Rosemary's Baby - the musical!" (Boston Globe) ended the year on a high note for the boys, even before the release of "Record" in December of 1998.

Record came out and landed the dogs on the cover of the "Northeast Performer Magazine" in Boston in the Spring of 1999.
In October of 1999 the dogs recorded their 2nd album, "Andy Davus". This album shows that you can take the dog out of the country, but you can't take the drunk, redneck, trailerpark, hillbilly, country out of the dog. This album was recorded in the basement of the doghouse. It was recorded by Paul onto a 4track cassette recorder, and then mastered at Porter Square Recording and converted to CD. "Andy Davus" was released for the second time in December of 1999.

In April of 2000, the dogs got involved in Joan Of Arkansas, a musical by Ryan Landry and Bill. The show was performed with a live cast, while the dogs were the band for the performances. The show ran at the local family hot spot, the Machine through May and June. In July, the show went to distant family hot spot Provincetown. The show ran from July to September every tuesday night in Ptown. This is were the dogs met Jack Peirson. Jack saw a show and decided to use the dogs for a GUCCI photo spread in an upcoming issue of Detour magazine. The issue is called the Fall Fashion Issue and has Chris Rock on the cover.

This modeling gig paid off again when the dogs donned the latest fab rags from French Fashion Guru: Jose Levey of Paris. The dogs posed in a lot of tiny weenie bikini's, so it is fortunate for the dogs that the photos will appear in catalogues in France and New York only.

The dogs released "Andy Davus" for the 3rd time during the summer in Ptown.

Halloween of 2000 will mark the date of the release of the latest effort by the dogs..."the evils"
The California Years"