Bio | Stumbling Mice
STUMBLING MICE are… Tom Blower:guitar & vocals; Tom Pepper: harmonica & vocals; Joe Sykes: bass & vocals; Myles Rutledge: drums & vocals; Bob Monteleone: guitar & vocals. The band’s history goes way back…
All the guys (except Bob) played together roughly 1o years ago as T-Bone Pepper. Myles left to play with MY MACHINE and other original bands. Joe and Bob played together 25 years ago in WAYCO. Bob’s known Tom Pepper for about that long as Tom P. sang with ROADHOUSE which formed out of the ashes of WAYCO (no sick joke intended there).
The band was officially christened THE STUMBLING MICE late in 2005 when they held a twice monthly house gig with a different drummer at a defunct Detroit restaurant called Miles’ World. Eventually Myles rejoined and the band started playing regularly at Irish Pub/cool biker bar Erin Pub. The late, great Jim Noel filled in on keyboards when Bob couldn’t make it. (He apparently had better things to do.)
In early 2009, Bob had the idea to record the band live in his studio/living room. The band laughed. Bob said, “No really, let’s set our stuff up in one room, and play our sets like we do
at a gig. Right next to each other, with the PA blasting, track leakage be damned!” And that’s what they did. Right around 9:30
on a Saturday night, about the exact time they would start their usual gig, they played and they partied like it was a real gig. And…they rolled tape! And for good measure they got together the next day and did it again.
The results of this are what you hear on the self-titled CD THE STUMBLING MICE.
