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MY LENAPTALF NEWS
05.26.2006 The website is up! Yeah, we're back and we're, um, bad?
05.28.2006 As promised, schwag will soon be available online, so hang in there, kids!
MY LENAPTALF LINKS
Rolling Stone America's authority on music and popular culture.
Mtv Cricket's boob tube is always dialed in.
ESPN Sports. Center. Rules.
Fender Guitars Dusty's preferred axe for ripping choice tune-age.
Oreo Cookies We eat 'em. We play the jingle at our shows. and it's one of Smelly's four food groups.
Sears Where Dusty got his first guitar and where we buy our fresh threads.
Tang If its good enough for astronauts to take to the moon, it's good enough for us.
My Lenaptalf- The Brothers Kroch: Smelly, Cricket, and Dusty
My Lenaptalf: Humble Beginnings
In the early '80s when badass white-boys were blasting hair metal from their T-top Camaros, a trio of Modesto brothers decided to take a stand. Armed with a Sears Silvertone guitar, a dusty used drum kit, and a Moog Synthesizer, the Kroch brothers jogged down to their grandma's basement, plugged in and. . . .
My Lenaptalf: First Sounds
"When my brother (Dusty Kroch) struck that first chord, milk shot straight out my nose," explained keyboardist Smelly. "I was busy slamming Oreos, and the out-of-tune roar that came out of that piece of shit Sears guitar, nearly made me cry."
With his mouth crammed to the gums with chocolate sandwich cookies, Smelly screamed for Dusty to have mercy.
"You'd think that after living with each other for like, 15 years, he'd know what the hell I was saying, even if I was busy stuffing my fat face," Smelly lamented.
Drummer Cricket -- they youngest and only brother with any sort of music background -- remembers having his arms raised high above his head ready to begin his onslaught on the drums, when he was struck in the face by a gallon of ground up Oreos and sour milk.
How They Came Up with My Lenaptalf
"Smelly was spitting Oreos like a fire hose, screaming something unintelligible, and so I threw my drumsticks at him," Cricket recalled. "He jumped up and started screaming something that made no sense, you know, like the Chewbacca Defense."
From that sour note and ill-timed projection of milk and cookies that the band's still peculiar name, My Lenaptalf, was born.*
My Lenaptalf Hits Fast Forward
The band graduated from spitting cookies and playing with thrift-store instruments and moved on to Fender guitars and chain smoking Virginia Slims stolen from grandma.
"Those first few weeks yielded a few good hooks, a couple of riffs, and I came up with a killer Alex Van Halen inspired drum solo," said Cricket. "Let me put it this way, I made those skins scream, baby, yeah!"
Smelly says those first months really showed My Lenaptalf what it was made of.
"We hit another gear. You know it's like our backs were against the wall. We could either puss out and join the chess team, or we could rock own own brand of rock, better than all that W-band b.s."A W-band, Smelly explained, is one of several 80's hair metal bands whose band name begins with W. Examples include: Warrant, Whitesnake, Warrant, Winger, and W.A.S.P.
After several months honing their creative chops in granny's dungeoun, the brother's Kroch took their act to the streets.
From playing street-fairs and Friday night school dances, the band hit the highlife and earned the opening gig for another band with the same name? Yup.
Now My Lenaptalf is back on tour, playing venues similar to the ones where they first gained respect from foot-stomping art rockers and circle-spinning hippie chicks.