Kara Michele: mouth/train whistle/bass/will ride you like a pony for one penny/acrobatics
Basschic McAwesome: the low notes/doc martins/beer taster/vocals
B Dub: drums/more drums/Sierra Nevada
Donnie St. James: guitar/phallic tube/all around idiot
Switchy: percussion
Keith: monkey suit
Joe: band photographer
Occasional stunt doubles:
Last Minute Carl (aka Aaron Thomas), Scot "I'm cooler than you" Fithen, Lord Firebrand
Booking Contact Info:
Pat "The Staffhole" Hesselbrock - (513) 509-8513
Influences
Influences? Yes, we are under them.
Sounds Like
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell
The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
Beastie Boys - Fight for Your Right
Billy Joel - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
The Black Crowes - Hard To Handle
Blind Melon - No Rain
Blink-182 - Dammit / All the Small Things
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Blues Traveler - Hook
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name (like diarrhea)
Bon Jovi - Livin' On a Prayer
Bon Jovi (who can get enough Bon Bon?) - Wanted Dead or Alive
Bowling for Soup - Summer of '69
Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me (to have another beer)
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
The Cranberries - Zombie
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues
Duran Duran - Rio / Hungry Like the Wolf
Edie Brickell - What I Am (is a drunk)
Evanescence - Call Me When Ur Sober
Face to Face - Whip It
Fallout Boy - Sugar, We're Goin' Down
Finger Eleven - Paralyzer (way more dangerous than the shocker)
Flobots - Handlebars
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons
The Goops - Build Me Up, Buttercup
The Gourds - Gin & Juice
Iron Freakin' Maiden - The Number of the Beast
James - Laid
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Jet - Are You Going to Be My Girl
Jimmy Eat World (and get the trots) - The Middle
Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll
Journey - Any Way You Want It / Don't Stop Believing
Kenny Loggins - Footloose (dance contest time)
The Killers - Mr. Brightside / Somebody Told Me
The Knack - My Sharona
Led Zep - Good Times, Bad Times
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
Living Colour - Cult of Personality
Madonna - Like a Virgin / Material Girl
Marvelous 3 - Always Something There To Remind Me
Me 1st & the Gimme Gimmes - Take it on the Run
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
Muse - Hysteria / Supermassive Black Hole
No Doubt - Just a Girl / Spiderwebs
The Outfield - Your Love
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
The Police - Message in a Bottle (of beer)
The Presidents of the U.S.A. - Lump (of poop)
Prince - Kiss
The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Puddle of Mudd - She Hates Me
Quietdrive - Time After Time
Ra - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of...
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss / Give It Away
Richard (don't call me Dick) Springfield - Jessie's Girl
The Romantics - What I Like About Poo
Spin Doctors - Two Princes
Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
Sublime - What I Got / Santeria / Smoke 2 Joints
Survivor - Nuts of the Tiger
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
Toadies - Possum Kingdom
Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance
Tool - Sober
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Bum
Weezer - Beverly Hills / Pork & Beans / Troublemaker / Hash Pipe
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
311 - Down / All Mixed Up
4 Non Blondes - What's Up
You should come hear/see us at a show. Bring your liver, bitches!
We take requests....for booze, just don't put it on our tabs, or we will be forced to slay you!
The Sock Monkeys (formerly The Fine Lines) are the embodiment of live rock and roll. They've been teetering dangerously on the "Fine Line" of nuts and sober since 2004. In that short span of time many hearts have been broken, bar tabs have mounted, but the band has still not rehearsed even once. Even so, their style of pure off-the-cuff rock has materialized into a set list that spans as long as the limosines that they set on fire (which remains hearsay, we'll have you know!). Come out and visit them in their natural habitat as they perform feats of musical skill and the occasional stupid human trick.
You may find yourself asking: "Why are you called 'The Sock Monkeys?'" Believe us, we do that, too. In response to this popular question, we've compiled our top 8 all-time favorite smart-ass answers to that prompt:
1) The first rule of being in The Sock Monkeys is that you don't talk about The Sock Monkeys. 2) Sock Monkeys are cute, cuddly, and innocent; yet you can pose them into a variety of pornographic positions to amuse your friends. 3) Sock Monkeys see all, yet say nothing... 4) The Fines Lines sucked major ass as a band name. 5) You're either for us, or against us. Why do you hate freedom?! 6) Sock Monkeys make excellent drug mules (unlike Kara, our singer, who hates the taste of condoms). 7) Pass the whiskey. I think I'm starting to remember the question again. 8) Who are you to question our existence? Screw you, pal! You're always nay-saying. Jeez!
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