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Stuttgart's newest band will scare grandma and blow your eardrums. Welcome to the 12 on the Meter experience...
Spinal Tap were a bunch of fairies. Their amps only went to 11. At 12 on the Meter, we live up to the name. If you don't need to see an ear doctor after our set, well, then you were probably deaf to begin with.
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Sven Obertopp
AKA "Svengali," he is currently the brains behind the operation, which is a little scary. Sven is German, and has written all of the original songs that we play, which explains the 13 year-old pre-adolescent lust that haunts all of our tunes. |
Lance "Afab" Mathyssen
Lance likes to wear pictures of himself on his T-shirts. He is also our 7 foot tall drummer. Lance is the other American member of the band, and assists me in keeping these guys in check when they get a little too big for their britches. He has successfully sped up the average speed of our songs to mach 5. We fear that Lance may spontaneously combust in the near future.
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Martin Danner
Our dashing bass player, Martin, likes long walks on the beach and romantic novels. He is also the only member of the band who is not yet married. Go figure. Martin recently left "Weezer" after they revamped their image. Now we get the pleasure of his company and his bass-playing skills. It's a win-win situation. |
Martin "LG" Cheman
And then there's me, the volume-challenged "lead guitarist". I like to think that I bring a certain "je ne sais quoi" to the band, but I can't quite put my finger on what that is.
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Gig 1
This is our first show, in early January '02 at the Kelley Club in Stuttgart. It's a military club and we actually played a going away party, but we rocked and had a great time. Here, Sven is having an aneurysm. |
Our biggest (only) fan
The chicks were hot that night. Or should I say chick. Here, our manager/groupie/roadie takes a moment to show that she is fluent in rock 'n roll sign language.
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Riveting
Unfortunately, my German counterparts move around on stage about as much as Jerry Garcia. Tough to stimulate a crowd when you look like a mannequin. Of course, our crowd looked as if they'd had a hard day, and the chairs were so inviting... |
These guys can jam!
I never actually heard anyone say that, but I know they were thinking it.
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Open up and say....Ewww!
This was my New Year's Eve 2002 costume: pathetic late 1980's hair band loser. I was thinking about making this my alter ego on stage, but my chest hair kept falling off. |
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Monkey Boy
Wow, who would have thought that chest hair itched so much?
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