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			Erwin Hecklemeyer a.k.a. “The Tick” Guitar, Vocals Erwin was raised in the plains of Canada, surviving primarily on grubs, roots and wild game. By the age of four, Erwin had established a nervous tick in his fingers leading to efficient yet erratic gun play. Frequent doses of crustaceous wonderous resulted in increased Mercury consumption thereby adding to the ferocity of the tick. In 1995, Erwin was recognized as the “human metronome” by the Canadian Star twitching at an astonishing 195 beats per minute.

			Fabio Bass Guitar Fabio lives high on the slopes of Mt Tamalpais in Larkspur, California with his daughter Lil Fabio. He rarely gets out so this is a rare chance to see him outside of his home. He has played with many bands in many bars but doesn’t remember most of them. He started playing bass in an attempt to get his guitar playing friends to hang out with him. It didn’t really work but he still plays bass.

			Harry Paratestes a.k.a. Papa G Guitars Born Harold Verchina in Cleveland, the year the river caught on fire, he changed his name for the sake of rock 'n roll. He lost his left nipple in a bizarre potato gun accident. His turn-ons include candle light dinners, long sunset walks, high colonics and most things that strap on, (mainly, but not limited to guitars). His turn-offs include well done meat, morning breath (namely his own), limberger cheese, shallow people who think they're deep, deep people who don't know that they're shallow....oh, and nuclear weapons too. Last book he read was "A Catcher in the Rye" back in the '80's. He loves himself.

			Jimmy "Dean" Manning Keyboards, Vocals Jimmy was born on a spaceship in the year of our lord. He lived in a fiery space capsule hurtling towards Earth for thousands of years before crash-landing in a corn field during the 1950's, where he was secretly adopted by Senator Joe McCarthy. Jimmy enjoys Japanese tea-making ceremonies, decontructing pastoral symphonies from the 1800s and experiments freely with mind-altering drugs. When not investigating mysterious UFO sightings from around the world, he listens to Phil Collins and Yanni in order to expand his musical horizons.

			Spanky Weber Drums, Percussion, Fog Machine Spanky started his career as a model, appearing on posters for a Dallas bakery. His success selling bread led to appearances in other commercials, and one of these caught the attention of Hal Roach. He was signed onto The Gang at age 3, and was its top star throughout the show’s epoch. His last role as a child star was in "Johnny Doughboy," in which he appeared with Jane Withers, though he had a few additional credits after that. As an adult, he served in the Air Force, flipped hamburgers, briefly hosted a TV show, then settled in as drummer for Pro-Leisure.