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BIOGRAPHY

The Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra is Professor B. Miller (Mad scientist extrordinare, responsible for the music) and SPO-20 (The Robot who sings). We are from San Diego, recently released our debut four CD box set masterpiece (July 2007), and just started performing live again after years of writing and recording in solitude. We have been together since 1996.

We are lousy at describing what we do, so we decided to just let someone else do it. Here's a quote from The Plugg:

"In a truly overzealous gesture of elevating the somewhat strange to the wholly ridiculous, Professor B. Miller has completed a 4 disc, mega-release of his minimalist, robot-lead compositions under the name Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra. Combining Adult Swim style set-ups (with songs like Cheap Trapeze Lessons, I Stole Your Daddies Time Machine and Haunted Rental Car), concept album consistency (um, the entire thing is sung by a robot) and enough musical range to keep things actually interesting, the new release conjures roughly 20 + years of absurdity and satire the likes of which Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers, They Might Be Giants and Devo are just a small reference."
Granted, we disagree with just about everything they have to say about us, but it sure beat writing that ourselves.

Check out our MySpace page for some song samples and you will be able to figure out what we are about pretty quickly. Thanks.

MEMBERS

Professor B. Miller
Mastermind, Mad Scientist, Lyricist, Composer, Keyboards, Midi, Guitar, Drum Machine, Claps, Yelps, Lectures, Vision

SPO-20
The Robot, Vocals, Attitude

INFLUENCES AND SUCH

Andy Kaufman, Wesley Willis, They Might Be Giants, Kraftwerk, Captured By Robots, Spinal Tap, Post Modernism, Anton LaVey, P.T. Barnum, Andy Warhol, the Flaming Lips, Daniel Johnston, Adult Swim, South Park, The Simpsons, Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Vincent Price, Les Savy Fav, Skeleton Key, Oingo Boingo, Mike Patton, Rene Magritte, Kids in the Hall, Upright Citizens Brigade, Mr. Show, The State, Arrested Development, Monty Python, The Blues Brothers, Michael Ian Black, Devo, Old Video Games, etc...

DEBUT 4 CD BOX SET

Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra - Debut 4 CD Box Set