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Who could forget this wild Cinderella story - A group of high school friends from Milwaukee are jamming in a shed, a record exec’s limo breaks down within earshot, and an overnight sensation is born. Just five grungy guys with mortgages and mouths to feed. Grandma confirmed the rumors that they built all their own sets, drove their own tour bus, and did their own taxes.

 

This massively successful rock band never failed to keep us guessing. Band members went to rehab, got fired, and died suspiciously so often that no one truly knew who was in the group at any given moment (including the band members themselves.) Sometimes there were 29 people on stage, sometimes none.

 

 

What are the odds that this trio of late-stage female Elvis impersonators would find each other, and a new sound? Shows were characterized as high-octane dance fests with an energy that "takes the crowd to church." They were the initiators of many unforgettable 80’s dance crazes, not the least of which was The Kielbassanova. As their boisterous crowds grew and grew, so did the mayhem. No Meat Sweats show was complete without frenzied fans slinging loose spam and sausage at the stage.

 

Big hair, tight pants, and a rock-opera sound with fat guitars, drums for days, and bloody throated vocals. Peacocktopus was a real “opposites attract” story. Featuring two lead Vocalists, each dripping with glamorous androgyny, constantly at odds with each other. Like two different musical species forced into an unholy alliance, the tension between them created a sonic nonsense that (against all odds) worked! Peacocktopus was glam rock at its most extravagant and insane.

 

When it comes to musical duos, chemistry is key. And boy, oh boy was Rabbit Detective brimming with it! Some swear that the sweet musical stylings were a product of the two lead singers being brother and sister. Others say, “no no no, you’ve got it all wrong, that can’t be right, just look at their simmering onstage passion for each other.” It’s always been a puzzler! - Intensely private, infinitely melodic, and inscrutably connected - Rabbit Detective raised the bar (while also raising eyebrows with onstage jealousy issues.)