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The Weasels are an American rock band based in Albany, New York and active since the mid-1980s. Throughout their history, the group's core writers and performers have been Doctor Fun (vocals, saxophones, keyboards, flute, lyrics and songwriting) and Roy Weäsell (electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, keyboards, trombone, roto-vibe, mandolin, lyrics and songwriting). The Weasels have released seven LPs and one EP of original material, along with an early career retrospective compilation, and have played approximately 40 concerts, though they have not performed live since October 2000. They have been compared in reviews to Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and Steely Dan, based on their melodic jazz and blues based music, elaborate arrangements, deployment of highly regarded session players, open-ended and suspended compositional style, exacting recording standards, and intelligent use of sardonic, sarcastic, historic, political, surrealist and scatological themes in their lyrics. Early history The group was founded after Fun responded to a newspaper advertisement placed by Weäsell and producer-engineer-performer Chris Graf, who were attempting to find a keyboard and saxophone player for a planned live band. For the first several years of their existence, however, the founding trio remained home-bound, writing and recording tracks that would later appear on the discs Meat the Weasels Volume I: Fondue Cabaret and GenerationXcrement. In 1992, The Weasels submitted a tape to the local alternative newsweekly's annual unsigned artists' showcase concert, and were selected as one of four finalists, despite the fact that no live version of the band existed. Fun, Graf and Weäsell quickly assembled and rehearsed a stage presentation of their material, and won generally positive audience and critical reviews for their performance, despite losing the contest to a defunct industrial metal band. Meat the Weasels Volume 1: Fondue Cabaret Inspired by the response to their first live performance, the expanded band polished their basement tapes and released Meat the Weasels: Volume 1, Fondue Cabaret in 1993. The album’s opening cut, “Let the Killing Begin,” is the first in a series of Weasels songs about notorious killers, in this case Henry Lee Lucas. It incorporates a tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the closing soliloquy from the Doors’ “The End”. In addition to Fun, Weäsell and Graf, the record featured Jon Cohen (bass guitar and slide whistle), Rocky Petrocelli (drums) and David Maynard (guitar); Maynard had been a member of the New York Rubber Rock Band, whose 1975 single "Disco Lucy", was named "Worst Single of the Year" by Billboard. Following Meat the Weasels' release, the group continued to perform live, though with continued instability in the drummer's seat, which was occupied for various dates by Petrocelli, Jordan Cohen (later of Powerman 5000 and Blue Man Group), Dave King, Doug Klein, Dan Roberts, Steve Scoons, Dave Berger and Steve Candlen; the latter two emerged as drummers of choice for The Weasels' middle recording period. Meat the Weasels Volume I: Fondue Cabaret included the following songs: “Let the Killing Begin” “Amway Man” “Red Meat” “Might As Well Try You” (Sometimes listed as “Might As Well Try Ewe”) “Plastic Plant” “Dancing On Your Grave” “Have A Nice Day” “Never Been to Jersey” “Maybe You’re Dead” “Put Your Finger in My Brain” “When the Fat Lady Sings” “Little Town Ashtray Disaster”Leon’s Mystical Head In 1995, the Weasels undertook their first formal studio experience at New Music Studios in Albany with production and engineering support from Ted Malia, who had also worked with R.E.M., Bobby Brown and others. Maynard, Candlen and Jon Cohen returned to perform with Weäsell, Fun and Graf on the New Music sessions. The initial sessions were creatively fruitful, yet tense; Cohen left the group and was replaced by Alan Okey for subsequent sessions. Leon’s Mystical Head (a title inspired by a Firesign Theatre sketch) featured “Paging Larry Storch,” the first installment of "The Larry Trilogy," a series based on the premise that the purest essence of contemporary American comedy was to be found in the film and television work of Larry Fine, Larry Hovis and Larry Storch. The Weasels continued their homages to notorious killers with “A Fish,” about infamous cannibal Albert Fish. After the release of Leon’s Mystical Head, the band's core members decided that all subsequent albums would be recorded and engineered under their own direct supervision, with Graf taking a prominent creative role in the increasingly elaborate productions of Fun and Weäsell's compositions. Live shows from this period occasionally featured “Weasel Vision,” a multimedia visual presentation created by artists Michael Oatman and John J.A. Jannone. In July 2006, "Bar-B-Q Baby" was selected for regular broadcast on Doctor Demento's internationally syndicated radio show. Leon’s Mystical Head included the following songs: “Leon’s Mystical Head” “A Fish” “Bulldoze the Moon” “Klaus Barbie and Ken” “Bang My Head” “Poor Blind Sheehan” “Bitch Is All Business” “Paging Larry Storch” “Bar-B-Q Baby” “Murder of Crow” “Ahab” “The Short Song” (hidden track)Uranus Or Bust The next Weasels album, Uranus or Bust, took three years to write, record and release. Behind original cover art by Michael Oatman, Fun (billed as Racer Fun), Weäsell (billed as Chairman Wow) and Graf (now Sir Mixalot of Ice-T) offered 16 new compositions (one hidden) produced and engineered at Graf's Big Saucy Sound Studio. Berger, Maynard and Okey returned to the band, and were joined by keyboardist Adrian Cohen, brother of Weasel emeriti Jordan and Jon, the latter of whom guests on Uranus, as do drummers Candlen, Petrocelli and Larry Levine, Amy Abdou (violin), Rena Graf (vocals), Mike Pauley (bass) and “some Russian friend of Candlen’s” (voices). Two of Uranus’ songs were commissioned as part of multimedia art installations created by Oatman. “Hall of Pain” (about this album's representative Notorious Killer, nineteenth-century Troy, New York's Andress Hall) was composed as part of “Awful Disclosures: The Life and Confessions of Andress Hall,” while “Monument Road” appeared in conjunction with “Henry Perkins and the Eugenics Survey of Vermont.” Maynard composed the music for one song on the album, “Dumber Than Me,” while the Larry Trilogy continued with “Ou Est Monsieur Crane?”, which was also performed live by the Clown Punchers, a side project featuring Weäsell and Mike Goudreau, VH1 staff writer for such programs as I Love the '80s and Before They Were Rock Stars. In May 2006, "Mr. Yamamoto" (a.k.a. "Jimmy's Talking Pants") was selected for broadcast on Doctor Demento's internationally syndicated radio show. Uranus or Bust included the following songs: “Harvey Loped Along” “Something Wicked” “Onan Spilled His Seed” “Small Engine Repair” “MacNeice” “Alison Wonderbread” “Ou Est Monsieur Crane?” “Monument Road” “Lemons” “A Millio.... Discover the Jeff Nania popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jeff Nania books.
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