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About Me

Mike Batchelor was an All-American bullfighting champion while attending the University of Montreal in Beaver Falls, Minnesota. His guitar styling has been likened to that of great hip-hop guitarist Johann "Big Badger" Kleinenheimer and his hairstyle, unbeknownst to anyone but him, is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.John Zonk has, perhaps, the best name in show-business. His bass-playing soothed the monsters Scylla and Charybdis and allowed him safe passage into the Straits of Messina, where he met Mike, who was there scuba-diving for pirate gold. Mr. Z has an alter ego named Mary Beth la Presta that enjoys flowering shrubs and collecting Indonesian Coins.BJ Capelli is well-known both as a world-class philanthropist--donating hundreds upon hundreds of cents to causes ranging from "People's Organization of People" to "American Children's Regiment Against Polygamy"--and as a professional voice-over actor whose voice is immediately recognized as "Larry, the spontaneously-combusting dirigible" from the animated version of "Three's Company" that ran from April 1, 1983 all the way 'til April 2nd, 1983. His drumming has repeatedly been described with terms such as "the" and "is" and in a recent article that was almost written, "he".The sultry, phastasmagorically benign trio rose from the figurative ashes of something that never burned, figuratively or otherwise. Snakes and snails be damned, these little-boys-at-heart are always on-point, whether the joint needs to be funkily rocked or not... ....

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Member Since: 05/01/2007
Band Website: under construction" under construction
Band Members: Mike Batchelor: stupid guitar, stupider mandolin, over-wrought vox, bent trumpet, elitist attitude, dirty jeans, lack of sleep, general apathyJohn Zonk: black bass, youth, healthiest beard, least-healthy habits, armpit dreadlocksBJ Capelli: drums, talent, looks, high-finance, patience, virtue, chastity, temperance, humility
Influences: awakeness, sleepiness, sleeplessness, insomnia, somnambulating, verisimilitude, debauchery, vagary, capriciousness, non-capitulation, conspicuity, outlandishness, shyness, brashness, civility, love, hate, love, virtue, vice, virtue, XOX, OXO
Sounds Like: Happily vengeful, rife with piccadilitudes and generally spritely
Record Label: Pleatherbound
Type of Label: Indie

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So what are we doing RIGHT NOW?

It's a reasonable question that deserves a reasonable answer, so here ya go: We three are working around three vastly different and usually only slightly compatible schedules to record and produce two...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:25:00 GMT