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. This is the long, convoluted history of MSRP. A few years ago Nic Heidt (then on backup vocals and guitar) co-founded an band called The Eighth Day with a buddy named Shawn. After enlisting Nic's longtime friend Craig Schultz to play bass and newfound singer Mallory, they started writing songs and playing shows. Member explosion! Shawn parted ways with the rest of the group to pursue his own music (check him out at http://www.theeighth.com ). The rest of the band changed the name to MSRP and continued writing songs while waiting for Matt Heidt to move to Minneapolis so he could drum for the band. MSRP finished their first "album" Battery toward the middle of 2005. Member explosion! Nic and Craig were undeterred and the hunt for a new singer began. After a month or two of unsuccessful searching and the arrival of Matt, Nic decided to take on the mantle of lead singer himself. This meant they had to rearrange all the old songs and write a bunch of new ones since Nic (though he sounds oddly like a girl) did not have the soprano of Mallory. This still left a hole in the area of guitarist. Enter Alex Buehler, former venue owner (Ashland Undergound), guitarist, and Nic's co-worker. There was some question as to weather or not he would be allowed in the band,as he insisted they change the name to Mecha-Sonic Robo-Penguins, but the rest of the band eventually relented on this concession and Alex officially joined the band. Guitarist recruited, MSRP wasted no time booking live shows. Member explosion: after finishing the album One-hundred Fold Origami Meteor in August of 2006, Craig was forced to leave the band to perform with his Mu Daiko group. Luckily, Nic's roomate Dave Erickson is an accomplished bassist (read Dream Theater fan). Since Craig is awesome, he agreed to show Dave the ropes of MSRP. That, along with Dave's considerable talent, made the transition an easy one. The only difficulty was that Dave insisted on changing the bands name to Metal Schooled Raging Primates. After beating the other members asses a few times, they relented. One more hurdle remained, our keyboard player through all of this was Sony. Now he may have had a wonderful 40 seconds of anit-skip protection, but he just wasn't fitting in with the band on a personal level. Many heated arguments and a few all out fistfights, combined with his frustrating tendanacy to just just stop playing a song right in the middle of a show had created a lot of enmity toward him from the rest of the band. It was agreed he should be let go. Then in stepped Rob Cotter. Lady's man, man's man, man about town and a fellow Music Tech Graduate. Doubling as a keyboardist and occasional guitarist, Rob brought a whole new level of rock star to MSRP. Which then had to go through another name change, to Mega-Super Rockstar Pickles. Then another member explosion happened. Poop. Now it is pretty much down to a couple brothers making and releasing music in the form of digital singles. Bad for playing live, good for artistic experimentation. Enjoy... -- -- -- CDBABY LINK for MSRP: one hundred fold origami meteor --
