Mummies Monster Bash

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The undead funk band Here Come the Mummies will rock the Trop Oct. 29

By Lori Hoffman

Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Oct. 13, 2011

If you want to hear some authentic monster mash music, Here Come the Mummies is the band for you. The ghoulish guardians of funk will perform Saturday, Oct. 29, 9pm in the Tropicana’s Grand Exhibition Center as part of a Halloween Party. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

These undead mummies rock the house with some serious funk and some snappy, often suggestive lyrics. It’s a pretty hip sound for a crew of mummies who were cursed by an Egyptian pharaoh, doomed to roam the earth with their funky undead sounds.

Or, as the band’s website explains: Over 5000 years ago, from the dry stretches of the not-so-fertile crescent, wandered a well endowed, if foul smelling tribe, Expleticus Deleticus. They played upon musical instruments that, although crude, were nevertheless vessels of seeming infinite funkiness. Unearthed hieroglyphs (some thought to be the first instances of sexual innuendo in song “lyrics”) tell a salacious story: a tribe possessing the power to groove most righteously, made drop the tunics of five luscious teenage daughters of the Pharaoh, who subsequently cursed them with a spell so vile, merely to repeat its name is to reduce your tongue to cinders inside your very head.

Then, In 1922, at a dig in the desert south of Tunis, after hearing the unlikely thumping of music, albeit muffled, emanating from the sands underfoot, Professor Nigel Quentin Fontenelle Dumblucke IV unearthed the ruins of an ancient discotheque to find a dozen undead Egyptian mummies astonishingly still in the act of performing what he terms “Terrifying funk from beyond the grave.”

Luckily for this reporter, I didn’t have to travel to Egypt to communicate with a mummy. It seems the mummies have adapted nicely to the modern world, including the use of a computer and E-mail. Here is my E-mail chat with Java Mummy.

You have been around for thousands of years – what are your musical influences? And how to do describe your sound?

Our mission is to make women dance ... ok, dudes too. We have found that since the mid 1960s that R&B, funk, and Latin tinged rock music seems to work best. As far as influence goes, we are sponges: we love Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, The Meters on the funky end of the spectrum to The Beatles on the pop sensibility side.

Watching your videos, you seem to have a good time despite being dead. What’s up with that?

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