Mr. P - vocals
Bob Jones - guitar
Ian Carlson - drums
Logan from Duck Food - bass
Influences
The Beach Boys, Raymond Carver, All in the Family, that guy who's always at the bus stop, you know the one, on or about Towne and Foothill, been kicking around since the 70's, used to see him at the Music Plus bus stop a lot, but they're history now, kind of strange considering how much blow we all did in the 80's, staying up all night even though we had to open in the morning, get in there and there would always be the one stupid ass customer with a return, a Taylor Dayne 12" or some shit, we used to blast Run DMC and one day we just said the hell with it and we put on the Laker game, one of the Final games against the Celtics, Mary Cuevas got pissed but we ignored her, and who could forget when I poked the back door open a crack and the Alarm was standing there and I go, "Hey, the Alarm" and I ripped a big huge smelly fart but what I didn't know is that he was helping an old lady in the classical section, ain't that a bitch, Robin Harris, Gene Tracy, The Firesign Theater, Nolan Ryan, Richard Nixon, Mad Magazine, National Lampoon, Stripes, Zippy the Pinhead, and you know, like that
Sounds Like
Well, according to Woodbury the other night we sounded like shit because I was using the D-Squad microphone, which is all shot to hell, beaten down like a pizza and encrusted with the rancid goo of hundreds of past performances, I used it because I didn't want to fuck up Third Grade Teacher's mike, and then suddenly I hear Woodbury yelling at me and I scream "You Suck" I was introducing the song but he took it personally and after the show forced me into a big old scene right there by the full bar and I told him, "absolutely, I'm a total failure" you know and then he made it all about him, do you understand what that's all about? Well, the truth is we kick the shit of just about any band you could imagine, nobody will play after us and the ones that do have to step over our mess, the tortillas already brittle and hard, cans of syrup rolling around, and us off stage just laughing at them, it doesn't get any better than that I tell you, it just doesn't get any better than that!
1977 - Singer Mr. P sees Iggy Pop in concert at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Life changed forever.
1980 - Debut of Nixon's Revenge. "Your Girlfriend's Ugly" played for first time.
1983 - First D-Squad recording, "That Thing".
1984 - First D-Squad live performance on back of pickup truck in Sav-On parking lot, Pomona California.
1985 - Open two shows for Red Hot Chili Peppers at Pomona Valley Auditorium and one show in October with The Minutemen at Spatz in Newport Beach.
1987 - Debut new crowd favorites "I Need A Girl (With A Car)" and "Me and My Drug Problem". First appearance of Panda Man.
1988 - Cassette only release of "(In Memory Of) The Soul Cleanser)"
1989 - Drunken run-in between D-Squad guitar player Bob Jones and Poison gutiar player C. C. Deville backstage at Whiskey A-Go-Go, Hollywood.
1990 - First CD release "Hot Diggity Dogs". Open several shows for Social Distortion, including over 2,000 people at Cal Poly Pomona show.
1993 - Mr. P runs for mayor of Pomona. Promises to "put boom box in mayor's office and crank tunes all day." New cassette single "I Am The Mayor (The Rock and Roll Mayor) includes flip side sung in Spanish "Soy El Alcalde (El Alcalde de Rock and Roll)"
1993-1998 - Mysterious "hiatus" period.
1999 - D-Squad resurrection, with all original members. Infamous "beef penis" incident at Old Town Pub, Pasadena.
2000 - Band debuts "new" more mature creative direction, including new songs "Best Ass in Rock and Roll," ""I'm An Asshole (For Rock and Roll)" and old Nixons Revenge favorite "(We Ain't Getting) No Pussy Tonight". Also, food stuffs introduced to act.
2001 - Invited to play Warped Tour. Debut new CD "This is Our Demo", which features song "Taco Truck". After one week, kicked off tour bus in Los Angeles and sent home in stretch limo. Band returns in rented vehicle and plays 30 more shows, showing off new "EAT MY FUCK" t-shirts. Submit "This is Our Demo" CD to manager of Tenacious D, for tour consideration. They are turned down. Band featured in online photo galleries of Rolling Stone and NYRock. Also written up in Cleveland Scene. In preperation for show in San Francisco with the Incredibly Strange Wrestlers, introduce tortilla-throwing during "Taco Truck".
2003 - Jack Black "MTV Diary" segment shows Tenacious D working up new song entitled "Taco Truck From Hell".
2003 - Courtney Love arrested in New York, comes out the next night wearing custom made D-Squad "EAT MY FUCK" shirt. Shirt eventually seen by millions after being featured in, among other magazines, Rolling Stone, Q and Zinc.
2005 - Appear on cable program "Queer Edge with Jack E. Jett". Anna Nicole Smith Show star and media whore Bobby Trendy gives approval to Mr. P g-string.
2006 - Appear on No. 1 new prime time TV show of the summer, America's Got Talent.
2007 - Return to Warped Tour for one show - shut down after three songs after crowd starts trash riot.
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