30C was eventually kicked out of the UK - banned for life when a firework stunt went awry burning then road manager Les Johnson about the chest neck &head.
who, what: merk erck & gerk are the core of mixmanstudios.
where: a brick chateau in remote area of california when: in the summer of 1995 it all began in the dank basement of an abandoned medical facility.
how: merk decided to become a mega pah-duce-uh and since he erck and gerk had hours of material begging to be recorded merk went shopping for ingredients to fulfill his musical multitrack vision. since then mixmanstudios has grown into a full scale production studio on merk’s 700 acre vineyard.
why : for fun!!!
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executive producer with a guitar built mixmanstudios from the ground up. the bulk of effects used at mms were created from scratch by merk himself. merk began playing guitar and dissecting his rat distortion pedal to make it sound better at age 10 - the rest is history. |
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co-producing brainstormer with a drumkit. at age 6 1st grade classmate merck recalls “armed with a garden hose and fishing rod erck was clearly on the wrong path” that is until his mom bought him his first drum kit |
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co-producer sound effect specialist and wood honing guru with a bass. Gerk was nearly killed in a horrific childhood biking accident but cheated the dirt nap and as part of his rehabilitation regimen became obsessed with wood, cooking with wood, whittling wood, carving it, burning it, honing and crafting it making his own axes, basses, guitars amplifiers, you name the wood gerk ‘ll craft it. |