Eric Carlson (musician)
Eric Carlson | |
---|---|
Also known as | Sickie Wifebeater |
Born | May 22, 1958 |
Origin | Washington |
Genres | Shock rock, heavy metal, punk rock |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Guitar |
Years active | 1970s–present |
Website | Sickie Wifebeater at MySpace |
Eric Carlson (born May 22, 1958, in
Roosevelt High School together.[1]
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.[2]
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</ref>
Equipment
Guitars
Wifebeater plays or has played the following guitars[citation needed]
- A 1964 red Gibson SG with one P-90 pickup and one DiMarzio super distortion Humbucker
- A 1965 red Gibson SG stock P-90 pickups
- Early 1980s silver Boogiebodies Stratocaster
- A 1970s black Ventura Les Paul Copy (used in early 1980s)
Amplifiers]
Sickie Wifebeater uses a 1978 or 1979
fullstack as pictured on the Get Up and Die
album cover but in later years he mainly ran it as a halfstack.
Discography
With The Mentors
- Get Up and Die (1981 Mystic Records)
- Live at the Whiskey/Cathey de Grande(1981 Mystic Records)
- You Axed for It!(1985 Metal Blade/Death Records)
- Up the Dose(1986 Metal Blade/Death Records)
- Sex Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll(1989 Ever Rat Records)
- Rock Bible (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 - Fun at the Funeral 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
References
- ^ Allmusic
- ^ Lana Cooper, The Mentors:El Duce Vita [DVD], PopMatters, 16 May 2007