Triceratops

Music:

Member Since: 4/18/2006
Band Website: http://www.trashrecords.org/triceratops
Band Members: Mitch Heidegger (drums, vocals, keyboards): Born on a farm in Westphalia to a poor peasant family. He built his first drum kit out of the remnants of a demolished henhouse. He joined the band Lustfaust, which broke up after 1 year. He then decided to move to Canada to become a lumberjack. Upon arriving in Vancouver, Canada he got into a bar fight with his future band mate Cliff Hegel. Famous producer Zeke Mason found him playing bongos in the street and immediately asked him to become a member of the boys-band Triceratops. When he next met Cliff Hegel at the first Triceratops meeting they got into another fight. And the rest is history.
Axel Schopenhauer (guitar, vocals): Born in a German community in Brazil. He was a gang leader by the age of fourteen, involved in organ trafficking. Pursued by the police, he took shelter in Chile but was discovered there and only managed to escape by hopping a drug boat to Vancouver. One cold winter day on Granville street he saw a Fender guitar. Overcome by the phallic power of this item he broke into the store and stole it. He learned to play guitar, was arrested for a number of crimes and began playing all night in his cell. Zeke Mason discovered him after his release and asked him to join the boys-band triceratops.
Cliff Hegel (bass, vocals): Born Robert, Graff von Eschenberg, to an impoverished aristocratic family in Switzerland. He became a semi-famous Schlager singer but drank away all the profits. He was forced to move to Canada to evade his creditors to whom he owed thousands. He met Mitch Heidegger in a Vancouver bar (cf. Mitch Heidegger). He then met Zeke Mason on a go-kart track after their karts had collided in a freak accident. And the rest is history.
Influences: Grateful Dead, Gwar, Red Army Choir, Leonard Cohen, William Shatner, Knorkator, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Beatles, Opeth
Sounds Like: According to Mitch Heidegger, we sound like "a modern-days Grateful Dead". To be more precise, we are more like a mix of funky (though metallish at times) bass lines, jazzy drumming, and pop/rock guitars. We can be soft as the lamb (cf. our big hit "The Candy Song"), irreverential as the fox ("Nietzsche got Laid"), and brutal as the great white shark ("Triceratops").
Record Label: Trash Records
Type of Label: Indie