What led to the creation of the Ozric Tentacles was when Ozric, The Octopus and Asterid, the Squid, were swimming around one day when a dogfish was chasing a catfish at high speeds, crashing into both of them, making them sink to the bottom of the ocean, while they were at the bottom, the two of them saw something in the distance, so they swam up to it, and they both realized that they had just found some band equipment, so they both grabbed some equipment, and swam around looking for land, when they found some, they went up onto land, becoming humans somehow, when they met Ed Wynne, their roadie/future bassist, when he saw what Ozric and Asterid found, he offered to fix/clean the band equipment they found, so they could use it, and the rest is history.