The name  "Chico Motel" came from a snowy trip that Paolo and Mike took to Crater Lake one fateful winter.  On the way back from Oregon, they spent the night at a cheap motel in Chico, CA - $27/night -the only thing two indigent students could afford.  After passing the trash heap in front of their room door and discovering the dried blood stain on the hotel room mattress, they pulled out their sleeping bags and stared the whole night at the ceiling for fear of dying as collateral damage in a drug deal gone bad.  A band was born!