Infectious Grooves

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Infectious Grooves
Origin	Venice, California, United States
Genre(s)	Funk Metal Funkcore
Years active	1990-present
Label(s)	Epic Records Suicidal Records
Associated acts	Suicidal Tendencies Metallica Excel Jane's Addiction A Perfect Circle The Vandals Bad4Good Bad Religion
Members
Mike Muir Dean Pleasants Steve Brunner Ron Brunner Jr.
Former members
Robert Trujillo (?) Adam Siegel (?) Stephen Perkins Josh Freese Brooks Wackerman

The Infectious Grooves are a funk metal band led by Suicidal Tendencies frontman Mike Muir. It also features former Excel guitarist Adam Siegel, ex-Suicidal Tendencies, now Metallica, bassist Robert Trujillo, and ex-Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins. To date, the project released four albums between 1991 and 2000.

Though Muir's sense of humor was often obvious with Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves often brought out a goofier type of humor: their albums contain comedy skits by a reptilian lover named Sarsippius.

The Infectious Grooves have been on hiatus since the release of their fourth album, 2000's Mas Borracho, having not written new material, toured or recorded, but the band's personnel have kept busy with other projects. However, in 2006, Muir stated on Suicidal Tendencies' official website that the Infectious Grooves had been working on new material. [1] As of 2007, more further details regarding the new album are unknown and it is unclear whether the line-up featuring the Brunner brothers, or the one with Adam Siegel, Robert Trujillo and Brooks Wackerman, will record it. However the band have been confirmed to tour Australia as part of the Soundwave Festival in 2008 in Australia. Given Metallica's stance on side projects (see Jason Newsted), it seems unlikely that Trujillo would be able to participate in any further albums while still a member of that group.

1 Band members
- 1.1 Line-ups
- 1.2 Non-official members
2 Discography
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Band members

[edit] Line-ups


Dates & releases	Members & prominent instruments	Notes
1990-1992 The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves	Mike Muir - vocals Robert Trujillo - bass Dean Pleasants - guitar Adam Siegel - guitar Stephen Perkins - drums	First line-up. This is the "classic" Infectious Grooves line-up.
1992-1993 Sarsippius' Ark	Mike Muir - vocals Robert Trujillo - bass Dean Pleasants - guitar Adam Siegel - guitar	Josh Freese handled the drum tracks for Sarsippius' Ark while no replacement for Perkins was found.
1993-200? Mas Borracho	Mike Muir - vocals Robert Trujillo - bass Dean Pleasants - guitar Adam Siegel - guitar Brooks Wackerman - drums
200?-present Untitled 5th album	Mike Muir - vocals Steve Brunner - bass Dean Pleasants - guitar Adam Siegel - guitar Ron Brunner Jr. - drums

[edit] Non-official members

Dave Kushner - Guitar (on album #1)
Rocky George - Guitar (on album #1)
Dave Dunn - Keyboards (on album #1)

[edit] Discography

Year	Title	Label	US Billboard Peak^[1]	Format	Other information
1991	The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves	Epic	198	CD	Debut album. The second track, "Therapy", features backing vocals by Ozzy Osbourne.
1993	Sarsippius' Ark	Epic	109	CD
1994	Groove Family Cyco	Epic	Uncharted	CD
2000	Mas Borracho	Suicidal	Uncharted	CD
TBA	Untitled 5th album	Suicidal		CD