Who Was Sir Millard Mulch?
It’s a stage name I made up circa 1991, when I played in a band at Venice High School. We were called Voice of Nothing. It was my first band and consisted of Brad Murray on drums and Jesse Gura on bass. I played guitar and sang. Brad also sang while drumming. We all came up with funny weird names for ourselves, as is the tradition. Brad was Max Roister, and Jesse was Lag “Eugene” Tactics, and before that we had a bunch of other names. A whole crowd of skateboarder kids liked us, because Brad was probably the most popular skateboarder in the high school. Anyway, I wrote this song called Lawn Surgery, which is, officially the first song I ever wrote, and it was basically two chords over and over. I kind of decided it was our big hit song. The background behind the song is very simple: I hated mowing the lawn, and my parents would make me do it. I was antisocial, obsessed with playing guitar, and hated doing chores. I decided I liked the word, Mulch, which appears in one of the verses. 16
