Punky Brüster

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Punky Brüster
Origin Vancouver
Genre(s) Metal, pop punk
Years active 1996
Former members
Devin Townsend
J.R. Harder
Adrian White

Punky Brüster is a parody punk rock band formed by Devin Townsend and Adrian White, with musical help from members of his other projects. (The band's name is a pun on the 80's U.S. television series Punky Brewster.) The project's sole album, Cooked on Phonics (a pun of the literacy program "Hooked on Phonics"), is a critical parody of musicians who radically change from their developing sound to a mainstream, formulaic, and popular style for the purpose of selling out, specifically to mainstream punk rock.

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[edit] Members

Every person performing in the band used aliases. The main members had two aliases, the first as a Punky Brüster member, and the second as a Cryptic Coroner member:

  • Devin Townsend:
    • Dr. Skinny - Lead Vocals and Guitar
    • Lord Stenchlor - Brustal sword of Baphonet's greasy spoon
  • John Randahl Harder:
    • Squid Vicious - Bass and Vocals
    • Jokor, King Of The Orcs - Battering old containers of poop strewn from the bowels of pure nasty Hell
  • Adrian White:
    • Dances With Chickens - Drums (and hysteria)
    • Underwator - Rotting corpse sucker from the world beyond the one before the last one

Additional Punk rockers:

  • Chris Valagao (E. Val Mescal) - Vocals on Oats Peas Beans & Barley; total uncleanliness
  • Jed Simon (Ace Longback) - BG Vocals, skulling, hot pants rocker baby
  • Byron Stroud (Stoolie B. Flames) - Vocals; textures; club owners; moocher of gear
  • Chief Dontsmoken - bad hair; foreign guy; sleepless anarchy
  • Pete of Shit - old gay punk dude; baby onions; chauffeur to the stars
  • Bob Wagner (Velvet Kevorkian) - who did nothing, but has a honkin' name
  • Surrey Wagner - Drums when DWC was out conquering Gauls in Norway
  • Diananator - Groupie extrordinaire

Plus a veritable cast of thousands of gang vocals

[edit] Discography

[edit] Other Projects

Devin Townsend has had several other projects in which he is usually the Lead vocalist/guitarist:

Strapping Young Lad
The Devin Townsend Band
Devin Townsend
Ziltoid the Omniscient

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