Man Man

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Man Man
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Background information
Origin	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre(s)	Viking-Vaudeville Punk-Wop Rock-and-Soul
Years active	2003–present
Label(s)	Ace Fu Records
Website	www.wearemanman.com
Members
Honus Honus (Ryan Kattner) Pow Pow (Christopher Powell) Alejandro "Cougar" Borg (Russell Higbee) Sergei Sogay (Chris Sharr) Chang Wang (Billy Dufala)

Man Man is a band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their musical style has been described as Viking-vaudeville, punk-wop, and rock-and-soul. Man Man is known for their exuberant live performances. When performing, the members of the band dress in white outfits and wear war paint. Prior to settling on Man Man, the band was named Gamelon and briefly Magic Blood.

During 2007 Man Man opened up for Modest Mouse to on several shows during their U.S tour, gaining them a lot of public attention. Not long afterward, Nike began airing a series of commercials starring Rainn Wilson with Man Man's "10 lb Mustache" as the background music. That song along with "Feathers" and "Engwish Bwudd" were featured in season 3, episode 8 of the TV show Weeds.

Man Man is known for their multi instrumental style that centers on the piano playing of lead singer Honus Honus accompanied by the singing and wide variety of other instruments played by the rest of the band. On recordings, Honus usually plays a honky tonk style piano but during the live shows he uses a Rhodes Piano. Other instruments played by the rest of the band include a Clavinet, MicroKorg, Sousaphone, Saxophone, Flute, Drum Set, Euphonium, Fender Jazz Bass, Danelectro Guitar, Xylophone, Melodica and various percussive instruments including pots and pans and toy noise makers and horns.