Also known as Sickie Wifebeater Years active 1970s–present Origin Seattle, Washington Name Eric Carlson | Role Singer Music group Mentors (Since 1977) | |
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Genres Rape Rock, Heavy metal, Punk rock Albums You Axed for It!, Duceifixion, Rock Bible, Live at the Whiskey, The Ship in the Sky Similar People Steve Broy, Eldon Hoke, Jeff Dahl | ||
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Eric Carlson (born May 22, 1958, in Seattle, Washington) is a founding member and lead guitarist of American heavy metal band The Mentors. Under the stage name Sickie Wifebeater, Carlson started The Mentors in Seattle in 1976 with bass guitarist Steve Broy (Dr. Heathen Scum) and singer/drummer Eldon Hoke (El Duce) who attended Roosevelt High School together.
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- Style
- Guitars
- With The Mentors
- With other groups
- Videography
- References
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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.
When performing, Wifebeater wears a black executioner’s hood, according to a Guitar World article "probably to avoid public beat-downs by pissed-off feminists and offended prison guards".
Guitars
Wifebeater plays or has played the following guitars
Sickie Wifebeater uses a 1978 or 1979 Marshall MKII 100 Watt Lead with checkerboard speaker cabinets. Originally, he used the fullstack as pictured on the Get Up and Die album cover but in later years he mainly ran it as a halfstack.