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Mr. Bungle was formed in 1985 in Eureka, California. The original line-up included Trevor Dunn on bass, Mike Patton on vocals, Trey Spruance on guitar, and Jed Watts on drums. The band took its name from two short films which appeared in early episodes of the "The Pee Wee Herman Show," in which an ill-mannered, un-hygienic puppet clown demonstrated how good grade-school kids should not behave (only later did band members learn, through Faith No More bassist Bill Gould, that the porn flick "Sharon's Sex Party" also stars a character named Mr. Bungle).Having established a strong following in Northern California, and with the hiring of vocalist Mike Patton by popular Reprise rock group Faith No More, Mr. Bungle was signed by Warner Bros. Records. Their first album, produced by John Zorn and titled "Mr. Bungle," was released August 13, 1991. There were several new songs on it, but the sound was much the same as that of "OU818,"(one of four unreleased tape's) commonly described as "funk metal" by music critics. The album sold well, and Mr. Bungle toured North America successfully to support it.A multitude of side-projects and artwork delays contributed to the the four-year gap between the self-titled album and the release of "Disco Volante" in October of 1995. It was made up almost entirely of new songs, and musical styles combining jazz, techno, tango, and death metal, to name a few, set it apart from all previous efforts.Mr. Bungle's last album, "California," was released on July 13, 1999.


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Member Since: 22/04/2008
Band Website: www.bunglefever.com
Band Members: Trevor Dunn: bass Danny Heifetz: percussion Clinton "Bär" McKinnon: tenor sax, clarinet, keyboards Mike Patton: vocals Trey Spruance: guitar, keyboards....Other band members are: Jed Watts - Drums (1985-1987) (ex-Scourge (US), Machete) Hans Wagner - Drums (1987-1988) Scott Fritz - Tenor Sax, Trumpet (1987) Luke Miller - Tenor Sax, Trumpet (1987-1988) Theo Lengyel - Sax, Keyboards (1985-1996) Mort & Robby Boy - Additional Vocals
Influences: MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, --as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? --from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been---POE
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Record Label: warner brothers
Type of Label: Major

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Trey Spruance interview

In the new ROCK A ROLLA issue, out now!! "Patton and I have had a history of basic tensions, it's true, but never really that bad. I think of him fondly for the most part. I think Mr Bungle had at le...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:37:00 GMT