Music:
Member Since: 10/27/2006
Band Members:
Vocals & Guitar: Pherny
In addition to singing and playing musical instruments, Pherny enjoys cooking and haiku graffiti. While not born into
an upper class family, Pherny has always aspired to be rich, famous, and uptight. His very favorite
musical composition is Vivaldi's concertos for mandolin. His favorite dish to
prepare is duck patte. Showing much promise early, Pherny's musical career was put on hold when he was arrested for netting ducks in LA's city ponds. After countless write-ups for bad
behavior, Pherny served the maximum jail time for his crime. While this was a low point in Pherny's life, some good did come from the experience. He spent the four years in Lompoc Prison practicing the guitar and developing his rock
and blues skills. It was there that Pherny began to write the melancholy rock melodies that eventually became -
Thunder Rooster.
Bass: Rick (rockpot) Phelps
After high school, Rick Phelps moved from his home town of Missoula, Montana to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. After years of auditions and working
small jobs in coffee shops and street side cafes, Rick
finally landed a small role as the janitor on the reality TV show, Temptation Island.
Sadly, after 3 short weeks of filming, Rick was let go for coming to work drunk and
stealing tubes of adhesives from the prop room. After this incident, Rick went into a deep depression and was without work for several months.
He eventually was forced to vacate his apartment. He began sleeping in the park and playing his banjo for coins in the tourist areas of venice and santa monica. While it was a difficult lifestyle, Rick recalls this period
of his life the most fondly because it gave him a lot of time to do the things he most enjoys. Namely, drinking and sniffing glue. After a little over a year of living in the streets, Rick met pherny. The two
formed the band Thunder Rooster and have been inseparable since.
Drums: Guardo Von Grubenstein
Guardo was not always a semi-talented musician. He was born with an inherited neurological
disorder that onset in childhood. Guardo's condition caused him to nervously smash the objects around him.
While his parents were able to give guardo a relatively normal childhood by making their home smash safe,
the problem became more noticeable in elementary school when Guardo was suspended from school for smashing
the other children. At the suggestion of a doctor, Guardo's father bought him a drum-kit as a way for
guardo to channel the condition in a positive way. Needless to say, guardo took to his kit like a fish to
water and eventually made a career for himself, developing a spastic drum smashing style of his own. Before
Thunder Rooster, Guardo toured with his cousin's southern funk band Fred Grubenstein and the fabulous seven,
and later the rock band Grumpystiltskin.
Influences:
Special thanks to anyone who ever picked up an instrument anywhere or banged on their dashboard or desk with more than one finger, or tapped their feet in class in high school forever pissing off the girl sitting one seat in front.
Sounds Like: A THunderOus RoOster
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None
