A power trio. We all met in Montreal which is in Quebec, Canada, then moved to Michigan due to legal problems. We thought Michigan looked cool on a map because it’s shaped like a glove, cooler than Italy which looks like a boot, and fingers are more important than feet to musicians unless you area drummer like Petco., although realistically you can still drum with a stump.Petco. comes from the Czech Republic, formerly Czechoslovakia. The word “robot†also comes from the Czech Republic. Petco. used to not like former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar player Hillel Slovak [RIP] until we told him that that was just his last name not his country of origin. He likes him O.K. now. Petco. has no last name like Madonna, but it’s okay because Erif has two, plus he puts a period and the end of his name in order to make it artsy and cool. Petco. has not yet fully mastered the English language (he can say “robotâ€) but has mastered the smoking of Marlboro Reds, which aren’t readily available in the Czech Republic.
CoCo is French. CoCo’s favorite past-time is drugs. Once he met a guy in a market that didn’t like France. He was bald and Coco punched him in the face, then went out and slashed the tires on the Bald Guy’s four-banger Chevrolet that had a “Boycott France†sticker on it. He also slashed the tires on another car that had a “CBGB’s†sticker on it because obviously the guy that put it on there thought he was cool even though he had probably never even been there. CoCo knew this to be true and so he slashed the tires. Anyway CoCo was on drugs at the time and as you can guess he loves his home country very, very much.
Erif O’toole-Von Cleefe has two last names because he is half-Irish and half-Viking, and because of that hereditary make-up Erif has the emotional, physical and mental strength to handle hyphenated last names. Erif’s Dad was a failed Viking and because of this he was bitter. He used to beat up Erif and break his glasses until one day Erif fought back and killed him which is eerily reminiscent of what happened on an episode of E.R. once. While touring in Michigan, Erif has come across many towns which claims to be Vikings, one town in particular was called Bangor. He did not find there to be many Vikings in the town, except one: On an American football field by their school they had a Viking, BUT, he had no sword. “How can you be a Viking without a sword!?†He would not answer Erif. But the Viking was very big so Erif did not press the issue too much.
