Grasshopper (born Sean Thomas Mackowiak 1967) is an American musician with the band Mercury Rev. He has also appeared with Harmony Rockets, his own band Grasshopper and the Golden Crickets, and as a guest musician on numerous other recordings.
Mackowiak's early years have been colored by a 1998 interview given to music publication NME, which claimed that he met Rev singer Jonathan Donahue in a reform camp for juvenile delinquents at the age of te...
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Grasshopper (born Sean Thomas Mackowiak 1967) is an American musician with the band Mercury Rev. He has also appeared with Harmony Rockets, his own band Grasshopper and the Golden Crickets, and as a guest musician on numerous other recordings.
Mackowiak's early years have been colored by a 1998 interview given to music publication NME, which claimed that he met Rev singer Jonathan Donahue in a reform camp for juvenile delinquents at the age of ten.
In the early 80s, Mackowiak was a member of The People's Front (name taken from the Monty Python film Life of Brian), which played concerts in Fredonia, Dunkirk and Buffalo, NY. There was a film made of the band but has since gone missing. The film showed the band in concert and in a mock documentary with the storyline predicting great success not in the US, but "across the pond" in England. The film ends with a crash that was a foreshadowing of the fate that befell the actual guitar player for the group, Kyle Gaszynski.
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