Dimitri Mugianis (lead vocal)
Glenn Johnson (drums, etc.)
Dan Porvin (guitar)
Al Korosy (guitar)
Dave Boonshoft (bass)
Russ Johnson (trumpet)
Bob Marx (tenor sax, flute)
Pat McCarty (trombone, PVC didgeridoo)
Paul Romero, Kevin Weist, David Lawton, Angel Jemmott (vocals)
previously... guitars:
Chris Hunt, Marc Dannenhirsch, Sal Monella (aka Michael Tudor), John E. Louder (aka Howard Glazer), James Myers, Dave Rice, Ted Moniak, Jeff Mullins bass:
Randy Landau, Chris James (aka Chris McGorey), Greg Gilmore, Scotch Hiballs (aka Bob Godwin), James Myers, Dave Rice, Brian Garwood mandolin:
Ted Moniak violin:
Joan Matuszczak, Bruce Davison saxes:
Mike Walters, Ric Frank, Joey Lajoie, Brian "Chumley" Longshaw, Dan "the Carp" Matuszczak trumpet:
Glenn Makos, Leif Arntzen, Meg Montgomerey, Leonard Belota, J.J. Silva, Guy Zublin, Stan Johnson trombone:
J.J. Silva vocals:
Melissa Schaffer, Mike Errico, Mark Palermo, Bryan Webster, Don Smith, Dena Raptis, Sophia Raptis, Sal Monella, Ted Moniak, Glenn Johnson moral support:
Mr. Unique
Formed in Detroit in 1977 as Mr. Unique & the Leisure Suits, they got their start as the opening act for The Mumps (featuring Lance Loud) and local favorites like Flirt and Destroy All Monsters. In the following years, they managed to amuse, annoy, and antagonize all manner of audiences before finally releasing their four-song EP, Mr. Unique & the Leisure Class in 1983. The record received generally favorable, though puzzled, reviews from Dennis Loren in the Metro Times, who found "something to offend everyone," and Ira Robbins in Trouser Press.
The band moved to New York, making their debut at CBGB in 1984, and evolved into the ever-changing Leisure Class, launching a musical and visual assault on the comfort and sanity of those poor unfortunate souls who wandered into the East Village bars and performance spaces of the late 1980's and early 1990's. Their performances featured, at various times, legendary writer Herbert Huncke, a custom-built two-story prison, impaled goat's heads, and Abraham Lincoln.
On August 23, 2005, Leisure Class was profiled on the National Public Radio show, Day to Day. "The Rise, Fall and Reunion of the Leisure Class" can be heard here:
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4811940
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