{"id":1451,"date":"2012-11-06T14:58:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T09:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2012-11-06T22:13:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:43:01","slug":"in-depth-interview-with-the-mentors-drummervocalist-mad-dog-duce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2012\/11\/06\/in-depth-interview-with-the-mentors-drummervocalist-mad-dog-duce\/","title":{"rendered":"In-depth Interview With Mentors Drummer\/Vocalist ‘Mad Dog Duce’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview by Avinash Mittur<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Los Angeles’ very own shock rock veterans, the kings of sleaze, Mentors played a killer show at the Key Club in Hollywood recently, along with Ghoul, Dr. Know, Witchaven and a few others. A few days after the show, our man Avinash Mittur caught up with drummer\/vocalist Marc DeLeon a.k.a. Mad Dog Duce, to talk about the Key Club show, and various other things. Enjoy this lengthy, no holds barred, unabatedly honest and hilarious conversation below, and visit the Mentors on their official website<\/a><\/strong> and facebook<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0& twitter<\/a><\/strong> pages for more info.<\/p>\n

So you guys just recently played a show with Ghoul at the Key Club- how did you guys go over with the crowd?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think we got a really good reception. We played earlier than we were supposed to because there was some kind of mix up, but I think we did great.<\/p>\n

That was actually my second time getting to see the Mentors, my first time was last February when you guys played after Anvil at the Whisky. You played a little bit of a different set-list this time, it was longer and had a couple more older classics in there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, definitely. I wish we could have played some newer songs, but they originally told us that we had 40 minutes onstage and we ended up not getting the full time. We wanted to play some other songs like \u201cHerpes Two,\u201d but that one\u2019s like seven minute long. We\u2019re trying to condense a lot of them into almost a medley of perversion, just so we can kind of touch on all the tits throughout the night you know?<\/p>\n

\"\"I was actually going to mention that, the Mentors haven\u2019t played a whole lot of newer material in the sets lately. Is that just due to set constraints?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, set constraints are a factor. It\u2019s almost pompous to say that we have \u201chits\u201d because we aren\u2019t on the radio, but so many people have so many different favorite songs. We\u2019re constantly being bombarded with \u201cwhy aren\u2019t you playing this, why aren\u2019t you playing that?\u201d Wherever we go, you got that one guy that tells us to play \u201cGreen River.\u201d I\u2019m like \u201cwell yeah, okay.\u201d That guy asks for \u201cGreen River\u201d once every six months, but I get everything else constantly. I get \u201cAdultery,\u201d \u201cSleep Bandit,\u201d etc. I know all the songs, I know every lyric to every song. I could play them out the gate you know? The older guys in the band don\u2019t know every song, or we don\u2019t have the time to rehearse those songs. We\u2019re on the road so much that we can\u2019t rehearse! We\u2019ve been steadily playing constantly and even for the Ghoul show our bass player was in India up until an hour before the show!<\/p>\n

Seriously? Oh wow, way to spring right into action I guess, damn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. He was jetlagged and he didn\u2019t know what fuckin\u2019 time it was. It was a 27 hour flight and he went straight onto the stage which is rockin\u2019 in and of itself.<\/p>\n

Well I mean, go him especially considering he\u2019s one of the veteran members of the Mentors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh yeah, he\u2019s the original.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>I actually didn\u2019t know this, but the Mentors have had a new guitar player at the shows?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sickie Wifebeater will always be the guitar player for the Mentors. He actually has this disease in his hand called the Viking Disease for people of viking descent where they get this calcium growth thing in their fingers. He was in constant pain, and two weeks ago he had it removed. He\u2019s going through physical therapy right now, but he wanted to be there for the shows anyway. We were going to have him come out since we were going to play San Diego the next night but I had a legal issue with a female who had put a restraining order on me and claimed that I beat her up. It was proven that it was all false. Sickie wanted to be there, but he\u2019s also living in Indiana. We decided that it wasn\u2019t worth it for him to come out for only one show- he couldn\u2019t miss physical therapy, we felt that was more important. We told him \u201cSickie, we got somebody badass that will always be there when we need him.\u201d This guy, Tee Sick, he\u2019s a local guy from my area. He\u2019s just an awesome guitar player. He knows of the Mentors through me and he wasn\u2019t sure how tough the songs would\u00a0 be. What\u2019s funny is that guy stepped into the picture and he thought it would be a lot simpler than it turned out to be. He learns songs note for note and he was amazed at Sickie\u2019s original parts. This guy plays Steve Vai stuff, he\u2019s a real metal guitar player. He was like \u201cI\u2019m amazed at what Sickie played, it\u2019s incredible.\u201d We haven\u2019t had a touring guitar player for the last couple of years because of Sickie\u2019s hand and work schedule and other stuff like that. The Mentors don\u2019t really play for the money- I mean I joined my favorite band of all time. For me it\u2019s Kiss, the Mentors and Judas Priest.<\/p>\n

It has to be an amazing experience-almost like that of Ripper Owens. You really do justice to El Duce\u2019s vocals though.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ripper Owens is a really good friend of mine, I think he did an awesome job stepping in for Rob Halford. But yeah, thank you. I\u2019m proud when people tell me that I do a good job because El was a friend of mine and I did know him.<\/p>\n

You played in a Mentors tribute band before you joined Dr. Heathen Scum and Sickie Wifebeater right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I had a band called the Mantors. I wasn\u2019t trying to do a tribute band, I was trying to do a band based on a band. When I used to hang out with El, he would show me how to play drums and he would stay at my house for months at a time. He would always tell me, \u201cyou\u2019re gonna play drums for us and I\u2019m gonna sing.\u201d I was fifteen years old at the time, and I couldn\u2019t get into any of the Hollywood clubs. That foiled that plan. What I did was book shows for the Mentors and if El got drunk I\u2019d sing backups with him and just do fun stuff with him. I wasn\u2019t a serious member of the band, I was more of an associate and a guy who hung out with them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s still cool that you had experience with the Mentors while El was still alive you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah! So I\u2019ve played in a lot of bands and I\u2019ve toured a lot and always stayed busy, so I found out that El passed away a bit late. He was a good friend and that news really kind of fucked me up. People didn\u2019t understand what a great man El Duce truly was, and how important his music is. I know the Mentors kept going, but I feel like it wasn\u2019t really a serious thing. I figured that they really needed to be a three-piece, they need a drummer\/singer, they need to do this and that etc. Me and my buddy Larry Gregg, a local mortician, we were both big Mentors freaks and we both knew El. I told him \u201cwe\u2019re gonna start a band, it\u2019ll be a band based on a band and we\u2019re gonna do our own music and do Mentors music. It\u2019s gonna be called the Mantors.\u201d It was out of confusion alone that I did that and immediately Heathen Scum heard about it through another bass player we knew. One day, Heathen showed up at my tattoo shop in Bakersfield during a Mantors rehearsal and told me \u201cI\u2019m in the band.\u201d I\u2019m all, \u201cOkay, you\u2019re in the band!\u201d He loved it right off the bat. We would play shows with the Mantors, and then both the Mantors and the Mentors played together. What I\u2019d do is come out and do five or six Mantors songs, Heathen Scum would come out and we would do his solo stuff. Over the course of two and a half hours it would evolve into the Mentors with me on vocals. Moosedick, El\u2019s backup drummer for when he would be too fucked up to play, would take over on drums and I would step out to sing. Moosedick wasn\u2019t able to make every show, so I would end up playing in his place. They decided to have me be the full-time drummer\/singer. I often get the blame for it, but it wasn\u2019t my decision. I\u2019m happy it went that way though- to get the job you\u2019ve always wanted, sometimes you\u2019ve gotta say goodbye to other people.<\/p>\n

Right. But I feel like more than other replacement vocalists, you had a very gradual transition into the Mentors rather than just have it be an overnight thing you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah and it was fun the whole time. I do my own shirt printing and everything just stepped up. I do my own merchandise, I\u2019ve been doing this stuff all my life. I told Heathen and Sickie, \u201cIf we\u2019re gonna do this, we\u2019re gonna go fully onboard. We\u2019re gonna get a booking agent.\u201d They\u2019re like \u201cWell, we\u2019ve never had a booking agent because nobody will work with us.\u201d I got this guy Keith Rowley from Shred Head, and he works for another guy at a bigger booking agency too. He stepped in, and saw that we were the real deal and that the demand was there. It\u2019s just been getting bigger every year. I\u2019m getting contacted by people and they\u2019re blowing my mind saying things like \u201cDude, I\u2019m glad you\u2019re doing this.\u201d Celebrities and managers of other big bands tell me those things- even the assistant manager of Justin Bieber. I hear all these El Duce stories from everybody you could possibly think of, and then I run into Wendy and Lisa from Prince\u2019s band, the Revolution, at Amoeba\u2019s record signing day. They\u2019re freaking out and they even knew that I was the new guy in the Mentors. I asked them how they knew of the band, and apparently Prince loves the Mentors! He thinks that Sickie is one of the greatest guitar players of all time. So Prince is sitting there listening to the fuckin\u2019 Mentors! I meet people constantly that love that I\u2019m doing this, and I meet people that hate the Mentors also, just because of what we stand for.<\/p>\n

But you wouldn\u2019t be the Mentors unless there was a significant amount of people that hated you! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, what people don\u2019t understand is that the Mentors is one of the most important bands that ever existed! All we do is take the piss and vinegar out of everything that\u2019s popular, from Kurt Cobain\u2019 death to glam rock to screamo. There\u2019s nothing sacred, we\u2019re gonna fuck with everything. We\u2019re gonna say anything that will get people mad.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>That\u2019s the attitude that I love about the Mentors. The first time I saw you guys, I had no idea that the Mentors were a thirty-five year old band. But here you are playing songs like \u201cDonkey Dick,\u201d \u201cSandwich of Love\u201d and \u201cFour F Club.\u201d I was just blown away that in 1977, there were guys who had the balls to write and play songs like that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s funny is that in Seattle where the band started \u2013 you\u2019re hearing this story from me secondhand obviously- El, Sickie and Heathen would go play shows and they would get hired for a night at a club. They would instantly throw on the hoods and come in with \u201cGolden Showers\u201d or maybe \u201cPeeping Tom\u201d- some of the songs from the earlier era of the band. Instantly, they would be told not to play anymore by the club owners, get paid and be sent home. They couldn\u2019t get through half a song. It was a constant thing. It\u2019s funny because there was no 2 Live Crew then. There was Blowfly, but he wasn\u2019t much of a household name you know? 1976: imagine three dorks, dungeons and dragons kinda guys that were into drinking beer and masturbating, just fucking with everybody! It really did fuck with so many people.<\/p>\n

I feel like even the supposed \u201cshock rock\u201d acts out there nowadays like Marilyn Manson or Rob Zombie don\u2019t take it to the extreme that the Mentors did thirty five years ago. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m going to tell you right now, this is kind of a serious thing with the Mentors. El Duce did the best to fuck with people- his greatest creation and also his most hurtful creation was the term, \u201crape rock.\u201d The Mentors don\u2019t go out and rape people. It\u2019s more of raping rock music like \u201coh, McDonalds raped my wallet.\u201d It\u2019s like \u201cwe rape rock music.\u201d With a label that has rape in it, it really set a whole new level in every country of the world I\u2019ve ever been in. The rape thing has been the main issue. I mean, GG Allin would rape people. El Duce wouldn\u2019t rape anybody, he never raped anyone. It was shocking- that terminology to this day gets people to try to hurt me, even though I\u2019m a later member of the band. Nobody in any genre of music can touch that, I don\u2019t care who they are.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing though, in 2012 you\u2019d think that people would be more desensitized by at the same time people obsess over being politically correct. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, they\u2019re fucked man. I mean, I get the Portland Laughing Horse Book Collective sending me hate messages that threaten me. The hoods are issue still, people are so stupid that they think we\u2019re associated with the KKK. I\u2019ve been attacked with a knife, there\u2019s been death threats- so what? We\u2019re doing it anyway! It\u2019s an issue though.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a testament to your dedication to the Mentors\u2019 image and what the music stands for that you\u2019ll still go out there despite those threats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty funny. I really know who I can fuck with when I\u2019m on the road. I\u2019m a pretty good judge of character. I can pick out the more serious ones, but I\u2019m the kind of guy that loves a good argument. I won\u2019t lose an argument- I will fuck with somebody the entire time. I look for every loophole, every contradictory statement and I exploit it to its fullest extent. It also makes for good comedy, because truth is funnier than fiction with the Mentors.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I think I saw in another interview that Mentors songs are based on real-life experiences. Ducefixion came out in 2009; since then have you had any experiences that have inspired some new lyrics?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clevaland, Ohio last year. A girl got onstage and basically pissed on my leg.<\/p>\n

Oh. Well okay, then. Wow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s actually kind of normal. She pissed on my leg, and she thought she was getting her punk rock credit. So I immediately went below her and caught her urine in my mouth. I\u2019m thinking \u201cthis bitch ain\u2019t gonna show me up, she thinks she\u2019s badass.\u201d So not only did I do that, I raised my arms up and pushed her down into a doggy style position. I spread her ass cheeks and blew her own urine back up in her asshole.<\/p>\n

Dude, you can\u2019t even make stuff up like that. <\/strong><\/p>\n

She kinda sprayed some stuff back out and I caught it in a water cup that was next to me. I got the microphone, and lifted the cup. People were holding up their cellphones to take pictures, but they weren\u2019t even taking the photos because they were frozen. I held up the cup and said \u201cDimebag Darrell had the Blacktooth Grin.\u201d I drank from the cup and said \u201cthis is now called the Browntooth Grin.\u201d I\u2019ll tell you right now, I immediately spit it out.<\/p>\n

I hope for your sake that you did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not stupid.<\/p>\n

That already sounds like the name of a future Mentors song: \u201cBrowntooth Grin.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope the families of Dimebag don\u2019t think that the song will be about them. He had the Blacktooth, we have the Browntooth you know?<\/p>\n

I think someone like Dimebag would have had the sense of humor to appreciate a song like that. Did you ever get the chance to interact with him at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n

He definitely knew of the Mentors. But you know, he\u2019s one of the only ones that I never got to meet. I\u2019ve interacted with people from Slayer, Exodus, Kreator, Death Angel, Mayhem- their singer actually told us that our lyrics were a little silly and that the Mentors should be more satanic. I told him \u201cwell man, if you ever got some pussy you would stop singing about the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know man, they did kill one of their own members and another of them killed himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, whatever! He said it in front of people, so I had to react. In Mentors fashion of course- \u201cIf you\u2019d get some pussy once in a while, you wouldn\u2019t sing about the devil anymore!\u201d He was just a random guy to me and somebody tells me that guy\u2019s from Mayhem. I\u2019m all, \u201cokay\u2026\u201d I don\u2019t keep up with a lot of black metal and death metal. Being as busy as I am, it\u2019s hard to keep up with all those bands.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Well, one thing I feel like you brought to the table for the Mentors was a heavier sound. The songs sound a lot heavier and faster live than the original studio versions, with some extra double bass drumming in there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

El did a lot of double bass actually. Up the Dose<\/em> has a lot of it in there like in \u201cRock \u2018Em Sock \u2018Em\u201d and \u201cAdultery.\u201d I forget which, but one of the songs has double bass all through it. The later stuff had more double bass but the recordings don\u2019t do it justice and it\u2019s tough to hear. I think they still only had one microphone to mic the kick drum and left the other one alone! I try to do a lot of double bass, not that it\u2019s my favorite way to play because I\u2019m more of a solid Bonham-esque drummer. I try to make it as heavy as I can, but a lot of the time rolling double bass to me isn\u2019t as heavy as a powerful, doomy seventies rock beat. I try to throw in the double bass here and there, I do it in \u201cSandwich of Love\u201d and it works well in a lot of the old songs that had double bass to begin with. I\u2019m a different drummer than El though, he was more of a Buddy Rich guy. If anyone knew El Duce when he was sober, they knew that he was a top-notch drummer. He\u2019d take a drink and it would be all gone of course.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a drummer too, so talking about this stuff is actually a lot of fun for me. I noticed you played the drum solo to \u201cWipeout\u201d by the Ventures in the live set somewhere, but I can\u2019t remember which song it was in though.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That was actually in the original song! That\u2019s from \u201cWhen You\u2019re Horny, You\u2019re Horny.\u201d That was the actual El Duce-written drum part for the song. I started just yelling \u201cwipeout!\u201d in the middle of the song. One day Heathen Scum looks back and me and realizes \u201cHey, that is \u2018Wipeout!\u2019\u201d Everybody\u2019s got their influences and I\u2019d rather take them from the Ventures than some other random metal act.<\/p>\n

I noticed you only play with one rack tom as well, that\u2019s rare for a rock\/metal drummer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s more because of touring. We still tour in a van and we show up and use whatever equipment is there. Just out of the necessity for space I play a four piece. At home though, I have a Gretsch kit that looks like Nicko McBrain\u2019s kit! All my other kits have one rack tom and two floor toms but my big main kit is a Gretsch kit from 1980 that has everything on it from 6 to 16, 18, 20 inch floor toms to 24 inch kick drums.<\/p>\n

I actually really like seeing talented drummers play on<\/strong> smaller kits though. It shows how creative they can be with only a limited amount of pieces, you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, but I\u2019m not so talented!<\/p>\n

You said that there\u2019s been some recent inspiration for new Mentors songs- are we going to see a new Mentors album any time soon?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got a live album coming out soon, I only want to do a vinyl and digital release. I feel that CDs are pointless because if you want it digitally you can download it and vinyl is the thing to have because it\u2019s rock \u2018n roll. We have a studio album that may come out soon, we\u2019re still working on the titles. We don\u2019t know if we\u2019re gonna call it Band of Perverts<\/em> like Jimi Hendrix\u2019s Band of Gypsys. I don\u2019t want to give away all our possible names because the other names are so good that we don\u2019t anyone else to jump on them before us!<\/p>\n

You mentioned that Sickie\u2019s had some hand pain though. Will he be able to play on the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope so! I\u2019m pretty sure he will. I know he\u2019ll show up and start breaking shit if he doesn\u2019t. Sickie Wifebeater is an amazing guitar player, but he is also a fucking nut ball. Nobody can play like him.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That should be a requirement to join the Mentors: \u201cMust be skilled at instrument, must also be a fucking nut ball.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well yeah. That was the case with Tee Sick, who filled in for Sickie at the Key Club. He\u2019s such a good player, but he\u2019s a fuckin\u2019 weirdo too! In Bakersfield, this guy is really well known and he\u2019s a great songwriter who\u2019s worked with a lot of bands. But a lot of people won\u2019t play in a band with him because they don\u2019t know how to handle him! He is a perv. He is such a fuckin\u2019 weirdo recluse and he\u2019s into the weirdest shit. Nobody else can handle this guy, but for the Mentors he\u2019s pretty run of the mill and he\u2019s a great musician so he\u2019ll work. Sickie though, he likes to party. He likes to do speed, he\u2019ll drink anybody under the table but he\u2019s not like a boisterous party guy. He is to himself, and you\u2019ll catch him in the corner smearing chicken all over the walls. Like baked chicken, all over the carpet and all over the hotel room and make the fuckin\u2019 funniest noises. The weirdness has gotta be there. If you listen to a Mentors recording and you ask \u201coh, why did they do that<\/em>?\u201d it\u2019s because Sickie wanted it there. So yeah, he might be kicking and screaming but the motherfucker is gonna be there for the next album.<\/p>\n

It sounds like you guys should have someone filming this whole process for a documentary or something. <\/strong><\/p>\n

You know I love the Anvil movie, Spinal Tap is great but filmmakers have really dropped the ball. I mean the Pentagram movie is sweet, but if someone wants to make a statement, they need to recreate the life of the Mentors in film. There won\u2019t be a movie long enough to do it right. Other people would take it and probably ruin it with their interpretations. If there could really be a documentary on what the Mentors were and how they evolved and what they became- it really needs to be documented. Like I said before, the Mentors are one of the most important bands in rock music, just because we\u2019re the only ones still banned from certain countries over lyrics! They\u2019ll try to tell us a song like \u201cDonkey Dick\u201d is the reason we\u2019re banned and I\u2019ll ask them what\u2019s wrong about it. They say \u201cWell, you\u2019re advocating rape.\u201d In \u201cDonkey Dick?!\u201d Maybe \u201cSleep Bandits\u201d because you\u2019re talking about fucking a drunk girl! I\u2019ve hard this argument so many times. \u201cFour F Club\u201d advocates rape- where?! I\u2019m waiting for someone to tell me to play the songs backwards and you hear \u201crape rape rape.\u201d Oh sorry, what was I talking about again?<\/p>\n

No worries Marc, I\u2019m loving every bit of this conversation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, just so you know I\u2019m getting my dick sucked right now.<\/p>\n

Dude. <\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s a 22-year old virgin whore. Say hi honey! A muffled voice says hi.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Oh, hello. Well, are there any future plans for the Mentors that you want to mention?<\/strong><\/p>\n

More tours, bigger shows- we\u2019ll be at the Whisky on Dec. 6, we\u2019re doing Portland, OR on New Years. We\u2019re doing some Northwest shows around that time. The Mentors have a certain thing about us: we find a club and even when we outgrow it, we don\u2019t care. We\u2019ll still play there just like we still do house parties. We\u2019ll play the Key Club and the next night we\u2019ll do a fuckin\u2019 house party just because we love playing. Those shows in the winter are in smaller clubs, but they\u2019ll be packed and fun. We like the chaos and the uncertainty of how the show will go. We never want a show to go too smooth. Bigger shows are nice, but we only like those if we\u2019re on a package deal like the one with Dr. Know and Ghoul.<\/p>\n

That really must have been a trip opening for a band like Ghoul where you can so obviously see the influence from the Mentors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh really? I would never<\/em> have noticed! What\u2019s funny is that we just played a metal festival and direct support for us was Midnight. The first thing I gotta say is that people are obviously confused because the new fans don\u2019t know if they just saw Midnight or the Mentors! I say \u201cI gotta hand it to those Midnight guys, they\u2019re really good and they look kinda familiar!\u201d It\u2019s funny because we play with bands like Pottymouth who wear the costumes and put on a fuckin\u2019 show. Even rockabilly bands like the Cold Blue Rebels who also wear costumes- any time we play with bands like that, I always have to throw in my protest about bands that wear costumes when I get onstage. I always complain that good bands don\u2019t have to wear things on their heads to hide their faces. What\u2019s funny is that if we don\u2019t know the band personally, they actually get offended! I\u2019ve had to tell people \u201cAre you really that stupid? We\u2019re more making fun of ourselves than you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marc, thank you so much for talking with me and best of luck with the upcoming Mentors shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One more thing- we\u2019ve got a new Mentors tribute album out called For Those About to Rape We Salute You<\/em>. It\u2019s out on Casablanca Records and it has two brand new Mentors called \u201cRape Rock\u201d and \u201cMy Hard-On Has No Conscience\u201d and it has all the other hits covered by 17 other bands. It\u2019s available on iTunes or you can get the hard copy from us. Oh and everyone be sure to join us on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Well Marc, have a good night and enjoy your dick sucking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, I\u2019m not sucking dick!<\/p>\n

Oh of course. Alright man, take it easy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Interview by Avinash Mittur Los Angeles’ very own shock rock veterans, the kings of sleaze, Mentors played a killer show at the Key Club in Hollywood recently, along with Ghoul, Dr. Know, Witchaven and a few others. A few days after the show, our man Avinash Mittur caught up with drummer\/vocalist Marc DeLeon a.k.a. Mad … <\/p>\n

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