It was a dark and stormy night. Herman Jolly (ex-Sunset Valley), Grant Badger and Rob Lloyd (Guitar Defamation League) rested with grog filled goblets at our rough-hewn oak dining set, deep within depths of our castle. We were leaking blood onto the stone floor, probably from the wounds inflicted by the zombie hordes we encountered in Fresno, possibly also from the fisticuffsmanship that followed the Billy Joel argument. We had conquered our first tour together, and taken our newly acquired adroitness to Jackpot recording studio in Portland. The results you hear before you. When we decided to name our band, and pulled out the Ouija board, the dark clouds got even darker. The board spelled out... "Veggie-burglar." We quickly grabbed the little glass and hurled it into a stone wall and it shattered as lightning struck the castle tower. And it shattered into.... Little... Pieces... Amen. Save up your candy money for our June 3rd record release on
One Eleven Records!
"Like Robyn Hitchcock, former Sunset Valley frontman (and current Seattle resident) Herman Jolly has a knack for writing wonderfully off-kilter yet oddly beautiful pop songs—the kind that are so distinctive they'd sound strange and slightly forced coming from anyone else, but fit his faintly cracked voice and tilted worldview to a T. ." BARBARA MITCHELL -The Stranger
Hello from the Red Planet! May fireworks light up your sky! Sometimes music bounces from inside your head to the next dimension and sometimes it's right in front of you. Just grab the magic and go for broke! I've always prided myself on having a low IQ since I was made with cheap re-processed American parts and a third class robot brain. Did you ever hear a synthetic human spouting philosophy in his underwear? Mickey Microphone The Robots From Mars Checkout our Robomusic and Tall Tale.
PS You're invited to a cookout at the summit of Mount Olympus, the largest volcano on Mars and within our solar system. Bring your own marshmallows. PPS ZZ Van Hendrix says that he remembers you from a past lifetime...I think he was a pretzel. PPPS We're building a giant TV-Radio Internet Link on Mars so that we can pick-up your My Space Page. Don't want to miss anything. We’ll be watching you… Who do you think taught Superman to see through walls?
HAPPY BELATED ACROSS THE UNIVERSE DAY!!! From the ROBOTS FROM MARS
Music from Earth has been deliberately launched into space by humankind. Other than attaching a disc to a spacecraft or randomly broadcasting TV and radio signals, the Third Planet has never before attempted to share it’s musical culture with the Heavens. A Beatles song has been beamed out into the galaxy. NASA broadcasted the song, "Across the Universe", through the transmitters of its deep space communications network on the 40th anniversary of the songs recording at London's Abbey Road studios. February 4th also commemorated the space agency's 50th anniversary. The music was converted into digital data and sent on a 431 light year-journey towards Polaris, the North Star. The broadcast began its galactic crossing at 7 p.m. EST/February 4th 2008. Martian Side note: It might take awhile for the flower children around Polaris to respond to this broadcast. They prefer space polkas and hate all forms of technology.
