Member Since: 9/30/2004
Band Website: http://www.thetunnelrats.com
Band Members: Duke Crevanator - Vocals
Duke originally started as the guitarist of the band. When Captain Leech was forced to retire from live performances in 1998 for legal reasons, Duke stepped into being the lead singer.
Duke also writes for Lollipop Magazine and Carbon 14 Magazine.
He also gets drunk a lot at bars, preferably strip bars but any will do in a pinch.
B-Face - Bass
B-face and Duke founded the Tunnel Rats in a night of intensely heavy drinking. B-Face's abilities are well documented as a performer and song writer.
Besides the Tunnel rats, B-Face has traveled the globe with the Queers, the Groovie Ghoulies, the Mopes and currently Boston's classic rock-n-roll band the Real Kids
B-face has also provided incredible artwork for so many bands it's impossible to count.
Harlan Hearst Helmsley - Lead Guitar
Harlan has been New Hampshire's guitarist extradroinare since the early 80's. He's been in more bands than one can count. We were excited to recruit Harlan as a member after Captain Leech's retirement. We needed another guitar player, and Harlan fit perfectly. Because unlike Duke, Harlan could actually write and play guitar leads. The Tunnel Rats challenge anyone to come up with better leads than Harlan. And if you want GG Allin stories,Harlan's got `em. From way back to the late 70's.
Harlan is also the lead guitar player for Jupiter2.
Mara Beaverpants: Drums
Mara has been around the Tunnel Rats since 1993, when it all started. At our first show in Durham, NH she was the one actually saved the lives of two kids when she pulled them out of the way of the towering PA speaker Captain Leech pushed over into the crowd. In 1995, she, along with her sister, were the ones who drove us 24 hours straight to play with Cocknoose in Kansas. She was the one who applied a tourquinet to Duke's legs when someone stabbed him in the knee with a broken bottle at a show in Philly. The stories go on and on.
In 2003, when the Tunnel Rats were in need of a drummer, she volunteered to learn, even though she had never played before. 3 months later she took the stage in Las Vegas, NV and brought the house down.
Influences: Way too many list right now.
Record Label: Scarey Records in Torino, Italy
Type of Label: Indie