The Mentors is a heavy metal band, who formed in 1978 in Seattle, then moved to Los Angeles in 1979. They billed
themselves as the inventors of "rape rock", essentially early 1970s style
heavy metal with extremely sexist lyrics. They were a popular live act in
Los Angeles in the 1980s, but the chronic, acute alcoholism of singer/drummer
Eldon Hoke, better known as El Duce caused them to slow down in the 1990s and eventually cease activity.
The Mentors were known outside of West Coast heavy metal and underground rock
circles chiefly for their lyrics being cited by Tipper Gore during the
Parents Music Resource Center hearings in Congress, and then being used
by Frank Zappa on his "Mothers of Prevention" album. El Duce later appeared
in Nick Broomfeld's documentary about the death of Kurt Cobain, "Kurt and Courtney".
Group Members
- El Duce
- Heathen Scum
- Sickie Wifebeater
Disography
- Get Up and Die (1981)
- Live at the Wiskey/Cathey de Grande (1983)
- You Axed for It (1985)
- Up the Dose (1987)
- Sex Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll (1989)
- Rock Bible (1990)
- To the Max (1991)
