How did you come to be known as Spüge Monkey?
Papa: We thought about "The Mysterious Spuge and The
Everlasting Fartblossoms Who Can Pick Their Noses" but
found that was too long to but on the billing in front of
most of the places we play. So, we shortened it to
"The Mysterious Spuge and The Fabulous Fartblossoms
Who Pick Their Noses", but it too seemed a little
ostentatious.
Next, we tried "The Everlasting Fartblossoms with The Fabulous Spuge", but it seemed
to lack something in the presentation.
We thought, maybe we could get something that would shorten to an abbreviation well, so we came up with
"Spüge's Tremendously Unique Pristine Ideological Dobro And Saxophone Sextet"
but found we had some problems with that, the big one being no one played dobro. And besides, it still didn't look good on the sign.
We decided "Spüge Monkey" was short, sweet, concise, and
besides, the band members could all spell those words, well, two out of three times anyway, so we settled on that.
Where do you play?
Üncle Lëfty: We play out in the yard - we're kinda good yard apes, you know.
Üncle Lëfty, we note in your bio that you were a truck driver before retiring. What was that like for you?
Üncle Lëfty: Well, I hauled chocolate covered frozen bananas from the plantations up in Saskatoon, Yellow Knife and the Northwest Territories. The growing season for bananas up there is pretty long, but, ya know, we had to really haul them nanners as fast as we could to get them to market before they would thaw out. We were the exclusive supplier to a place near Pine Float Keys, "Uncle Jimmy's Crab Shack and Brass Spittoon Works." It's closed now, just no market for brass spitoons, I guess. Anyway, we didn't use them fancy reefer trailers they got nowadays, we had to do it on a flatbed trailer with refrigerated tarps installed. Sometimes, the tarp would get a leak in it, and you'd lose a whole load.
What's the best piece of advice someone has given you recently?
Üncle Jöse: When you're a five foot monkey in a four foot deep cess pool, keep your chin up. Oh, and don't make waves.
What's with the dots over the letters in your names?
Cüzin Öscar: Those are known as umlauts which sounds like "uhm lots"
Umlauts? What are those?
Cüzin Öscar: The proper response to many other questions, such as "Do you guys want more beer?" "Why, uhm, lots "
