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Eric Carlson (born May 22, 1958, in
Seattle
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,
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) is a founding member and lead
guitarist
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of American
heavy metal band
The Mentors.
[ Allmusic
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Under the stage name Sickie Wifebeater, Carlson started The Mentors in Seattle in 1976 with bass guitarist
Steve Broy
Steve Broy (also known by the stage names Dr. Heathen Scum and Pope Heathen Scum) is an American musician, best known as a founding member and current bassist of the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band the Mentors (band), Mentors. Broy has also ...
(Dr. Heathen Scum) and singer/drummer
Eldon Hoke
Eldon Wayne Hoke (March 23, 1958 – April 19, 1997), nicknamed El Duce, was an American musician best known as the drummer and lead singer of the shock rock band the Mentors, as well as other acts, including Chinas Comidas and the Sc ...
(El Duce) who attended
Roosevelt High School together.
Style
Wifebeater's playing style when soloing (with hand above and over the fretboard) is one of the things that gave the Mentors' guitars a unique sound. His signature sound is fluid with alternating bottom-heavy crunch with
fast-noted metal runs.
[Lana Cooper]
The Mentors:El Duce Vita [DVD]
PopMatters, 16 May 2007
When performing, Wifebeater wears a black executioner">VD]">The Mentors:El Duce Vita [DVD]
PopMatters, 16 May 2007
When performing, Wifebeater wears a black executioner’s hood, according to a ''Guitar World'
"Behind the Mask: A Brief History of Guitarists with an Identity Crisis" ''Guitar World'', September 5, 2008
Equipment
Guitars
Wifebeater plays or has played the following guitars
* A 1964 red
Gibson SG with one
P-90 pickup and one DiMarzio super distortion
Humbucker
A humbucking pickup, humbucker, or double coil, is a type of guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out the noisy interference picked up by coil pickups. In addition to electric guitar pickups, humbucking coils are sometimes used in d ...
* A 1965 red
Gibson SG stock
P-90 pickups
* Early 1980s silver
Boogiebodies Stratocaster
* A 1970s black
Ventura Les Paul Copy
Ventura (Italian, Portuguese and Spanish for "fortune") may refer to:
Places
; Brazil
* Boa Ventura de São Roque, a municipality in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil
* Boa Ventura, Paraíba, a municipality in the state of Paraíba, in the ...
(used in early 1980s)
Amplifiers
Sickie Wifebeater uses a 1978 or 1979
Marshall MKII 100 Watt Lead with checkerboard speaker cabinets. Originally, he used the
fullstack as pictured on the ''
Get Up and Die
''Get Up and Die'' is the debut EP released by American heavy metal group The Mentors.
''Get Up and Die'' was later repackaged as ''Valu Pack'' in 1987 along with a free 7" containing three tracks from a concert in San Francisco in 1983. In 2 ...
'' album cover but in later years he mainly ran it as a halfstack.
Discography
With The Mentors
*''
Get Up and Die
''Get Up and Die'' is the debut EP released by American heavy metal group The Mentors.
''Get Up and Die'' was later repackaged as ''Valu Pack'' in 1987 along with a free 7" containing three tracks from a concert in San Francisco in 1983. In 2 ...
'' (1981 Mystic Records)
* ''
Live at the Whiskey/Cathey de Grande'' (1981 Mystic Records)
* ''
You Axed for It!
''You Axed for It!'' is the first studio album by American heavy metal band the Mentors.
On its original vinyl and cassette release (and the reissue in 2009 on Stool Sample Records), the track "Judgement Day" fades out after the final line, "H ...
'' (1985 Metal Blade/Death Records)
* ''
Up the Dose'' (1986 Metal Blade/Death Records)
* ''
Sex Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
''Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll'' is a live album by American heavy metal band the Mentors.Kreuzer -1994 - Page 131 "Gab's alles schon besser. Die Kultband schlechthin läßt sich herab, ihr fünftes Release „Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll" zu veröffe ...
'' (1989 Ever Rat Records)
* ''
Rock Bible
''Rock Bible'' is the third studio album by American heavy metal band the Mentors. The lyrical content changed from sexism to the band's personal turmoil, although there were some sexist songs and one, "My Daughter Is a Strawberry", had racist ...
'' (1990 Mentor Records)
* ''
To The Max'' (1991 Mentor Records)
* ''
Over The Top'' (2005 Mentor Records)
* ''
Ducefixion'' (2009 Mentor Records)
* ''
Illuminaughty'' (2017 Mentor Records)
With other groups
*
Jesters of Destiny
Jesters of Destiny is a heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, which was formed in 1984 by Bruce Duff (bass/vocals, who had been booted from 45 Grave earlier in the year) and guitarist Ray Violet. Evolving from a recording project spearh ...
- ''
Fun at the Funeral
Fun is defined by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' as "Light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; boisterous joviality or merrymaking; entertainment".
Etymology and usage
The word ''fun'' is associated with sports, entertaining media ...
'' 1986
*
Mentorhawk - ''
Motel 7'' 1999
*
Northwest Breeders - ''
Northwest Breeders EP'' 2001
Videography
* ''Get Up and Die'' (1983)
* ''Mentors Fuck Movie'' (1987)
* ''A Piece Of Sinema'' (1990)
* ''The Wretched World of The Mentors'' (1990)
* ''Mentors Tour De Max '91'' (1991)
* ''El Duce, The Man. The Myth. The Video.'' (1993)
* ''Mentors - El Duce Vita DVD'' (2007)
Sources
Church Of El DuceMen In The Hood: Mentors Site
References
External links
Sickie Wifebeater
at MySpace
The Mentors Official WebsiteChurch of El DuceMentors @ the Metal Archives
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlson, Eric
Living people
1958 births
American heavy metal guitarists
American punk rock guitarists
Mentors (band) members
Musicians from Seattle
Guitarists from Washington (state)
American male guitarists
20th-century American guitarists>1 The Mentors at Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...
Under the stage name Sickie Wifebeater, Carlson started The Mentors in Seattle in 1976 with bass guitarist Steve Broy
Steve Broy (also known by the stage names Dr. Heathen Scum and Pope Heathen Scum) is an American musician, best known as a founding member and current bassist of the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band the Mentors (band), Mentors. Broy has also ...
(Dr. Heathen Scum) and singer/drummer Eldon Hoke
Eldon Wayne Hoke (March 23, 1958 – April 19, 1997), nicknamed El Duce, was an American musician best known as the drummer and lead singer of the shock rock band the Mentors, as well as other acts, including Chinas Comidas and the Sc ...
(El Duce) who attended Roosevelt High School together.
Style
Wifebeater's playing style when soloing (with hand above and over the fretboard) is one of the things that gave the Mentors' guitars a unique sound. His signature sound is fluid with alternating bottom-heavy crunch with fast-noted metal runs.[Lana Cooper]
The Mentors:El Duce Vita [DVD]
PopMatters, 16 May 2007
When performing, Wifebeater wears a black executioner">VD]">The Mentors:El Duce Vita [DVD]
PopMatters, 16 May 2007
When performing, Wifebeater wears a black executioner’s hood, according to a ''Guitar World'
"Behind the Mask: A Brief History of Guitarists with an Identity Crisis"
''Guitar World'', September 5, 2008
Equipment
Guitars
Wifebeater plays or has played the following guitars
* A 1964 red Gibson SG with one P-90 pickup and one DiMarzio super distortion Humbucker
A humbucking pickup, humbucker, or double coil, is a type of guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out the noisy interference picked up by coil pickups. In addition to electric guitar pickups, humbucking coils are sometimes used in d ...
* A 1965 red Gibson SG stock P-90 pickups
* Early 1980s silver Boogiebodies Stratocaster
* A 1970s black Ventura Les Paul Copy
Ventura (Italian, Portuguese and Spanish for "fortune") may refer to:
Places
; Brazil
* Boa Ventura de São Roque, a municipality in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil
* Boa Ventura, Paraíba, a municipality in the state of Paraíba, in the ...
(used in early 1980s)
Amplifiers
Sickie Wifebeater uses a 1978 or 1979 Marshall MKII 100 Watt Lead with checkerboard speaker cabinets. Originally, he used the fullstack as pictured on the ''Get Up and Die
''Get Up and Die'' is the debut EP released by American heavy metal group The Mentors.
''Get Up and Die'' was later repackaged as ''Valu Pack'' in 1987 along with a free 7" containing three tracks from a concert in San Francisco in 1983. In 2 ...
'' album cover but in later years he mainly ran it as a halfstack.
Discography
With The Mentors
*''Get Up and Die
''Get Up and Die'' is the debut EP released by American heavy metal group The Mentors.
''Get Up and Die'' was later repackaged as ''Valu Pack'' in 1987 along with a free 7" containing three tracks from a concert in San Francisco in 1983. In 2 ...
'' (1981 Mystic Records)
* '' Live at the Whiskey/Cathey de Grande'' (1981 Mystic Records)
* ''You Axed for It!
''You Axed for It!'' is the first studio album by American heavy metal band the Mentors.
On its original vinyl and cassette release (and the reissue in 2009 on Stool Sample Records), the track "Judgement Day" fades out after the final line, "H ...
'' (1985 Metal Blade/Death Records)
* '' Up the Dose'' (1986 Metal Blade/Death Records)
* ''Sex Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
''Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll'' is a live album by American heavy metal band the Mentors.Kreuzer -1994 - Page 131 "Gab's alles schon besser. Die Kultband schlechthin läßt sich herab, ihr fünftes Release „Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll" zu veröffe ...
'' (1989 Ever Rat Records)
* ''Rock Bible
''Rock Bible'' is the third studio album by American heavy metal band the Mentors. The lyrical content changed from sexism to the band's personal turmoil, although there were some sexist songs and one, "My Daughter Is a Strawberry", had racist ...
'' (1990 Mentor Records)
* '' To The Max'' (1991 Mentor Records)
* '' Over The Top'' (2005 Mentor Records)
* '' Ducefixion'' (2009 Mentor Records)
* '' Illuminaughty'' (2017 Mentor Records)
With other groups
* Jesters of Destiny
Jesters of Destiny is a heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, which was formed in 1984 by Bruce Duff (bass/vocals, who had been booted from 45 Grave earlier in the year) and guitarist Ray Violet. Evolving from a recording project spearh ...
- ''Fun at the Funeral
Fun is defined by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' as "Light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; boisterous joviality or merrymaking; entertainment".
Etymology and usage
The word ''fun'' is associated with sports, entertaining media ...
'' 1986
* Mentorhawk - '' Motel 7'' 1999
* Northwest Breeders - '' Northwest Breeders EP'' 2001
Videography
* ''Get Up and Die'' (1983)
* ''Mentors Fuck Movie'' (1987)
* ''A Piece Of Sinema'' (1990)
* ''The Wretched World of The Mentors'' (1990)
* ''Mentors Tour De Max '91'' (1991)
* ''El Duce, The Man. The Myth. The Video.'' (1993)
* ''Mentors - El Duce Vita DVD'' (2007)
Sources
Church Of El DuceMen In The Hood: Mentors Site
References
External links
Sickie Wifebeater
at MySpace
The Mentors Official WebsiteChurch of El DuceMentors @ the Metal Archives
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlson, Eric
Living people
1958 births
American heavy metal guitarists
American punk rock guitarists
Mentors (band) members
Musicians from Seattle
Guitarists from Washington (state)
American male guitarists
20th-century American guitarists