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MelThorpe
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Mike Carlson
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Mel Thorpe And The Sucktones
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Mel Thorpe & The Sucktones were assembled back in the early 1920s. It started out as a band of gypsies playing at bah mitzvah's mostly. Over the years most of the members committed suicide by overdosing on egg yolks taken intravenously.
Curiously, these days the band is mostly made up of Grammy award winning River Dancers and rejects from the Blue Man group. This was not planned, its just a weird coincidence.
The band tours constantly, never in the same city two nights in a row. You can usually catch them playing at your local animal shelter, dental office or sponge factory. Basically any place that is capable of housing the massive number of fans that show up to all their shows. Including the group of one-legged hermaphrodites that follow us around the world and never miss a show.
Curiously, these days the band is mostly made up of Grammy award winning River Dancers and rejects from the Blue Man group. This was not planned, its just a weird coincidence.
The band tours constantly, never in the same city two nights in a row. You can usually catch them playing at your local animal shelter, dental office or sponge factory. Basically any place that is capable of housing the massive number of fans that show up to all their shows. Including the group of one-legged hermaphrodites that follow us around the world and never miss a show.
Why this name?
Its a Irish family name.
Do you play live?
Yes, we play live everyday. Yes we like it. We did a show one time in Bulgaria where people paid their admission in Kielbasa. We ate well for 6 months after that show!
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
What is "internet"?
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
We have signed numerous record contracts over the years, but we have been screwed by every label that we signed with. Every time we finish recording a new album, the record company steals it from us and puts it out under some fake band that is all show. They are rarely real musicians. For example, when we put out Vol IV, the record company stole the master tapes and gave them to some band from England. I think it was later called "Led Zeppelin IV". They didnt even bother to give it a name that was much different from what we were going to call it.
I am not sure what the future fate of record contracts are. We are sort of gun shy these days with how corrupt the record companies are.
I am not sure what the future fate of record contracts are. We are sort of gun shy these days with how corrupt the record companies are.
Band History:
Lots of people joined over the years, most of them died. The initiation into the band is a difficult one. Not only do you need to be able to play polka rythmns of 72/46 time, but you also have to take dry Jello mix intravenously along with a half gallon of water, then you must pee it out into a Jello mold and eat it once it has set.
The later part of the initiation tends to weed out the weaklings.
The later part of the initiation tends to weed out the weaklings.
Your influences?
Ray Ray and the Bark Eaters, Shroom Soup, Metaloctopus, Bologna and Cheese and a band called Strip Ladle.
Favorite spot?
Tuvalu
Equipment used:
Cheese graters, nylon rope, bees wax and used condoms.
Anything else...?
I have too poop.