The name came about as we found ourselves discussing people we knew as grumpy and mopey. That led to us remmebering the sixties band "Moby Grape" and thought it was an entertaining pun to call ourselves "GrumpyMope."

The two core members of GrumpyMope are Ante Marijan and Bruce Satinover. In 1993 we had been working on a electronica project and wanted to add more traditional rock elements to this. We started working with other personnel and almost broke up after negotiating a recording contract. We work as another band live, GrumpyMope is logistically difficult to gig with.

Who know's what making it big means. We'd rather have an audience that likes what we do. If it's a "big" audience that's cool but it's more important that people enjoy what we're doing.

Ante Marijan, in the 90's soundscapes and compositions for synthesizer, electronica and music for dance, currently anchoring several bands and recording projects, co-founder of GrumpyMope.
Bruce Satinover, art rock 1974-76, punk 78-83, experimental 84 to 93, video, multimedia, electronica and several collaborations/associations with web based artists, co-founder of GrumpyMope.

Frank Zappa, The Beatles, King Crimson, The Pixies, Radiohead, John Zorn, NiN, none of whom we sound like...

mountains, any continent, any time of the year

Keyboards include, Kawai K5000S, Korg N1R, Yamaha SU700, Alesis QS6 and Yamaha CS1x along with guitar that is often heavily processed, digital recording, sampling and combinations of software and hardware recording technologies