Member Since: 17/02/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/meangatoronline
Band Members: Ken Trella: Lyric Master, Cord Monkey, Al Ponalet: Hack Guitarist, "Jack Of All Production", Computer Monkey!
Influences: I heard some screeching monkeys once during a trip to the zoo. That same trip a bike got lodged under the car’s tire and scraped and wailed its way two miles down the interstate. Or was that the rider? Hm... I guess a bike really wouldn’t yell like that. Well, that certainly explains a lot. Anyway, neither of the former events really influenced us except for the album "Screaming Monkey’s From Under the Car." And even that was a kid’s album. No, our influences stem from whatever songs Gator taught me to play in college. I of course was playing acoustic chick-getting songs but he said, "Wait dude, let’s fill a room with all the unaffiliated musicians in the college and start rocking! That’ll give me plenty of things to mix on the album and we’ll never have a mixing board big enough!" "Okay." I said, never one to argue with or tease the Gator. Anyway, two practices with that ungainly group and we were back to square one. Who would influence us? Every band influenced us for good or bad. "Let’s never play stuff like that!" "That’s pretty good." "Who’s ready?" "Party!"
Sounds Like: Angst- filled caterwauling backed by Beatles harmonies, Stones blues licks and 80’s forgetable 5th cords. But not as good as that sounds. Actually we sound like us. The whole reason to write your own stuff is because you don’t sound like any other band. It’s an acquired taste like that slow charley-horse that you get in the middle of your foot when you point your toes forward and then down. And how you think you can’t take it anymore but it doesn’t quite bother you enough to straighten your foot back out. And when the charley-horse is over you think, "Hey, that wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever felt. I wonder if I can get my foot to charley-horse like that again?" And then you point your toes back again and start it all over again. Our music is kind of like that.
Record Label: Unsigned