The Crash Test Dummies are a Canadian folk rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, best known for their 1993 single "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm". Since 2001, the only consistent members of the band have been lead singer Brad Roberts and vocalist Ellen Reid, since the rest of the band members have been busy with other projects and live far from Roberts' home in New York City.
In many ways, the origin of the Crash Test Dummies is tied to the history of two Winnipe...
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The Crash Test Dummies are a Canadian folk rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, best known for their 1993 single "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm". Since 2001, the only consistent members of the band have been lead singer Brad Roberts and vocalist Ellen Reid, since the rest of the band members have been busy with other projects and live far from Roberts' home in New York City.
In many ways, the origin of the Crash Test Dummies is tied to the history of two Winnipeg nightspots, the Spectrum Cabaret and the Blue Note Cafe, owned by Curtis Riddell.
In the mid-1980s, Riddell joined with Brad Roberts to form the decidedly less-than-serious bar band Bad Brad Roberts and the St. James Rhythm Pigs. Over time, the band evolved into the Crash Test Dummies, a name suggested by a friend of the band who was in medical school. The diagnostic mannequin, known colloquially as a crash test dummy, was known to the public already by this time. Ellen Reid and Benjamin Darvill became permanent additions. George West, the...
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