Mike Muir
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Mike Muir (b. 14 March 1964 in Venice, California) is the singer for Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves. He has also released albums solo under his nickname Cyco Miko and sang for No Mercy, replacing original singer Kevin Guercio who sang for the band on the Welcome to Venice compilation. Cyco Miko released two albums on Suicidal Records. The album Schizophrenic Born Again Problem Child was released in 2001, following up 1996's Lost My Brain! (Once Again). No Mercy released only one album with Muir, Widespread Bloodshed / Love Runs Red on Suicidal Records.
He is the younger brother of Jim Muir of legendary skateboarding team, the Z-Boys. Mike claims his brother was a heavy influence on him as a child. Jim got Mike into hard rock music as well as skateboarding at an early age.
Muir has cited bands such as Black Sabbath, UFO and Emerson Lake and Palmer, among others, as early musical influences, and was turned on to funk music by former bandmate Rob Trujillo, which influence he incorporated into a few songs by Suicidal and Infectious Grooves, a funk metal side project.
His house was made over into a "horror house" [1] on the Discovery Channel show Monster House. It is interesting to note that despite what many people expect, Muir went to college (Santa Monica College [2])
Muir has quite a trademark image. He is often seen wearing a blue bandanna (helping spread rumors that he and Suicidal were involved with local gangs) and a Los Angeles Kings jersey. He speaks with something as of an inner-city, almost Chicano sounding accent, which may be due to his mixed Latino and Caucasian lineage.
Muir is also known for being extremely outspoken on his views in both the music industry and society. He has long been an opponent of the PMRC and has reflected this in interviews and a few songs (namely "You Can't Bring Me Down" and "Lovely"). As far as conflicts with other musicians, Muir was involved in a near-violent feud with Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine on the European Clash of the Titans tour, but the two have since reconciled and are apparently now on friendly terms [3]. He has also frequently criticized rap-metal group Rage Against The Machine. The Infectious Grooves song "Do What I Tell You" mocks Rage (the title being a parody of the infamous "I won't do what you tell me" lyrics of "Killing In The Name") and their arguably aimless anti-political message. In a Canadian TV interview he criticized people who "complain that they don't have power", which was probably an indirect reference to Rage [4].
His singing voice has been compared to that of Heffer Wolfe, a character on the 1990s cartoon Rocko's Modern Life. Many people also believe that the image of Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose was "copied" from Muir's (i.e. the Crips bandanna, similar hairstyle, Kings Jersey, etc.), although Rose's image is definitely more glamorous than Muir's.
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| Mike Muir | Mike Clark | Dean Pleasants | Ron Brunner, Jr. | Steve Brunner |
| Former members: Mike Dunnigan | Mike Ball | Grant Estes | Jon Nelson | Rocky George | Andrew Evans | Louiche Mayorga | Bob Heathcote | Robert Trujillo | Josh Paul | Sean Dunnigan | Amery Smith | R. J. Herrera | Jimmy DeGrasso | Brooks Wackerman |
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| Albums and EPs: Suicidal Tendencies | Join the Army | How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today | Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu | Lights...Camera...Revolution! | Art of Rebellion | Still Cyco After All These Years | Suicidal for Life | Six the Hard Way (EP) | Freedumb | Free Your Soul and Save My Mind |
| Compilations: F.N.G. | Prime Cuts |
| Related articles |
| Infectious Grooves | Cyco Miko | No Mercy | Beowülf | Excel | Uncle Slam |
