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There are several artists known as Mintaka: 1. Pittsburgh, United States (1996 – 1999, 2005 – present) To truly understand where the legendary band Mintaka comes from, we must go back to the beginning. In 1996, the three core members were involved in separate projects that would ultimately suck and break up. Hal Pewick was playing the stand-up bass in a psychedelic polka outfit called Mothball Dream, Raincoat Meyers was the rhythm guitarist and bassoonist in the country/death metal fusion group known as Green Roofing Tiles in the Fuck of Berries, and Heath Peabody was manning the electronic drums in a progressive disco protest band in Greenland, named Shut Up You Stupid Shit. In mid July of 1996, Heath Peabody had a dream about a cereal box that taught him about Egypt, so he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for no reason. Upon his arrival, Peabody ran for six days and stopped in a park by a field. It was in this field that he met Hal Pewick. The two discovered that they had similar interests in music and barber shops, so Hal Pewick invited Heath to his house and introduced him to his good friend Raincoat Meyers. The three ate psilocybin mushrooms and Cookie Crisp, and proceeded to improvise music on instruments that were just sitting there. The three clicked immediately, and the sound was magical. Another friend of Pewick and Meyers, the talented Jack Adams immediately turned on his recording equipment, improvised some vocals, and in the process recorded what would become their debut EP, A Mountain Pushing a Button in the Sky, which was banned in the Bahamas for its graphic cover art featuring a mean walking penis stealing a cannoli. They christened themselves Mintaka, in honor of a box of linguini. After releasing A Mountain… on Adams’ independent label, Poopdisk Records, the band recruited Heath Peabody’s brother Edgemond to play keyboards and began to tour throughout the Northeast United States. Their live shows in this period were known for the surreal background art, intense performance and the really disgusting ice cream served at the snack bar. The band eventually began to tour the entire U.S. and parts of Canada, and in 1999, they decided to record a follow-up. Unfortunately, the band discovered that Edgemond Peabody was addicted to the number 72 and decided to fire him. Then the band did basically nothing for 6 years. In 2005, record producer Jinjer Gintlick heard their EP and thought it sounded neat. So he signed Mintaka to his label, Jethro Shit Records and brought them into his studio, The Neat Factory to record their debut full length album. The band reached new levels of neatness during these sessions, even becoming Super-Neat. On February 17, the album was finished, titled A Great Day For Bosko Sticks, and nailed to a fat man’s footprint, and sent to the record company. The band celebrated by spinning their arms for 45 hours. But tragedy struck again. After the exhausting arm-spinning sessions, Jack Adams went to get some green paper from Office Max, but was hit by a car and killed on his journey there (Raincoat Meyers claimed in a 2007 interview that Adams fell off of stapler, resulting in his demise, but this is doubtful). Regardless, the album was released on May 25, and has since gone 97x Platinum, spawning five hit singles: “Raining in my Mind”, “My Armpit Smells Like a Doctor’s Office”, “Mr. Peabody I Would Like a Ham Sandwich Pt. I”, “Kenny”, and “Ghandi (edit)”. Following the release of A Great Day, Mintaka began a massive world tour. The band enlisted Steven Pace to play keyboards and roller skates, and Raincoat Meyers took over the vocal duties due to Jack Adams’ death. The tour was so oh my god. You should have been there. It began in June and lasted until late November. The band’s show in New York and was released as a live DVD/album entitled Eleventh French of the Crapapples Pæñoìn: Live in New York. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Conan O’Brien say that this is their favorite album to make change to, and the album’s amazingness made Phil Collins jealous. After the tour, the band rested in a canoe for 11.9 seconds and then jumped back to the Neat Factory to work on a follow up album. They all agreed they needed to step it up and make an album even better then A Great Day, so they decided on making it a concept album based on black sticks in the Netherlands and a fat war on green. Hal, Heath, and Raincoat wrote about 11 tracks together by improvising in the studio, but problems soon arose. There was a lot of arguing between the band members about how much maracas should be on the album. Shortly after this, Jinjer Gintlick had to leave the studio to go to a Taco Bell in Russia to marry Larry the Cable Guy, so they were left without their producer. Meanwhile, the maraca fight nearly broke up the band. Then the mailman suggested that they just make three separate songs, one written exclusively by each member. The band thought this was so cool that they made the mailman a macaroni necklace, and to thank them, the mailman gave them 3 pennies and a paper clip that was bent, which inspired Hal Pewick’s song, “Joshua”. The trio immediately set to work on their songs. Hal finished his in 3 days or maybe 2 seconds. Heath Peabody went out for a day to find a subject and was inspired by a hot dog stand that was on fire. However, Raincoat Meyers struggled with his marvelous tune. He would later say, “I just felt like yeah, what, huh, no, what? You know. Like I wasn’t done with WHAT. () I dunno, man. Who? >.!>!, and Dutch satanic folk group My Stapler. Tickets sold for an average of 999349.00 and breakfast was provided if you brought your own breakfast. Critics in particular praised the song “There’s a Vampire in My Heating Vent,” for it’s revolutionary use of sampled farts, and “Houdini and the Diet Wrinkles” became the Mexican national anthem. Musically, the album is much more complex and with deeper lyrics than A Great Day for Bosko Sticks. Some consider this to be Mintaka’s magnum opus, and I would have to agree for the moment. But Mintaka is wrapping up a tour, soon to enter the studio again, and their next release is quite likely to shatter everyone’s expectations, proving to all doubters that they are indeed the greatest band of all time. Phil Collins is even more jealous. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.