A decade before the genres of Nu Metal and Rap Rock had handy dandy names and gazillions of imitators, MCM and Monster were among the very first to mashup-up ribald rhymes, turntable wizardry and a ferocious live band into a distinctly San Francisco onslaught of high energy punked-up freakout music.
Baptized in bourbon by the kindred spirits of Bon Scott and James Brown, The Monster became the scourge of the San Francisco music scene from the late 80's through the mid 90's. They released three albums, played up and down the West Coast, got big in Japan one summer, and just generally drove happy crowds into an ugly frenzy everywhere they went. Their live shows retain legendary status from the cambrian explosion of San Francisco music.
Going to a Monster show was like doing hot yoga if you kept the all the hot but replaced all the stretching with bouncing up and down, and replaced all the meditation with screaming guitars and turntable, and replaced all the deep breathing with off-color lyrics and merciless taunting from the stage, and replaced all the incense with beer.
After lying dormant for over 15 years, the Monster has emerged -- Godzilla-style -- from its subterranean hyperbaric incubation chamber to once again lay waste to stages and social media pages across the far reaches of San Francisco's mid-town neighborhoods.
Defying all rules of science and common decency, the band members have retained the muscle memory and diminished concern for self-preservation necessary to deliver a full-fledged beer sloppin', ear-poppin', wall-moppin' Monster show once again.
After all these years, the band comes across as loud, lewd, likable, and unprofessional as they ever have, and they're eager to present their patented blend of muscular musical mayhem to a whole new generation of Monster fans, along with all of our long-time supporters (at least those for whom the parameters of probationary restrictions, work release programs, halfway house curfews, sanatorium free days, medical treatment protocols, psychiatric evaluation, indentured servitude, non-disclosure agreements and marriage allow the consumption of live music and fermented beverages).
So get thee to the dance floor July 17th! And the cauldrons of eternity beyond!