Mike Muir

Mike Muir (born March 14, 1964 in Venice, California) is the singer for Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves. He has also released albums solo under his nickname Cyco Miko and has sung for No Mercy, replacing original singer Kevin Guercio, who sang for the band on the Welcome to Venice compilation. Cyco Miko released two albums on the record label Suicidal Records. The album Schizophrenic Born Again Problem Child was released in 2001, following up 1996's Lost My Brain! (Once Again). Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

Mike Muir (born March 14, 1964 in Venice, California) is the singer for Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves. He has also released albums solo under his nickname Cyco Miko and has sung for No Mercy, replacing original singer Kevin Guercio, who sang for the band on the Welcome to Venice compilation. Cyco Miko released two albums on the record label Suicidal Records. The album Schizophrenic Born Again Problem Child was released in 2001, following up 1996's Lost My Brain! (Once Again). No Mercy released only one album with Muir, Widespread Bloodshed/Love Runs Red on Suicidal Records. Muir has often been seen wearing a blue bandana (leading to rumors that he and Suicidal Tendencies were involved with local gangs) and a Los Angeles Kings jersey. He speaks with something as of an inner-city, almost Chicano-sounding accent, and has both Latino and non-Latino ancestry. He is the younger brother of Jim Muir of the Z-Boys skateboarding team. Jim got Mike into hard rock music as well as skateboarding at an early age. Muir went to Santa Monica College. His house was made over into a "horror house" on the Discovery Channel show Monster House. Muir has cited bands such as Black Sabbath, UFO, The Police, Van Halen and Emerson Lake and Palmer as early musical influences, and has said that he was introduced to funk music by former bandmate Rob Trujillo. Muir incorporated funk unfluences into incorporated into a few songs by Suicidal Tendencies and into his funk metal side project, Infectious Grooves. Muir is known for being extremely outspoken on his views about the music industry and society. He has long been an opponent of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), and has reflected this in interviews and a few songs (namely "You Can't Bring Me Down" and "Lovely"). Muir was involved in a near-violent feud with Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine during the European Clash of the Titans tour, but the two have since reconciled and are apparently now on friendly terms. He has frequently criticized rap-metal group Rage Against the Machine. The Infectious Grooves song "Do What I Tell You" mocks Rage Against The MAchine (the title being a parody of the infamous "I won't do what you tell me" lyrics in "Killing In The Name"). His singing voice has been compared to that of Heffer Wolfe, a character on the 1990s cartoon Rocko's Modern Life. Many people also believe that the image of Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose was copied from Muir (i.e. the bandana, hairstyle and Kings Jersey), although Rose's image is definitely more glam metal than Muir's style. Discography 1983Suicidal Tendencies- Suicidal Tendencies - FrontierVocals 1985Welcome to VeniceSuicidal Tendencies/Los CycosSuicidal RecordsVocals 1987Split Image- Excel - Suicidal Records/CarolineExecutive producer 1987Widespread Bloodshed Love Runs Red- No Mercy - Suicidal RecordsVocals, producer 1987Join the Army- Suicidal Tendencies - CarolineVocals 1988How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today- Suicidal Tendencies - EpicVocals 1989Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu- Suicidal Tendencies - EpicVocals 1990Lights...Camera...Revolution! - Suicidal Tendencies - EpicVocals 1991The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves- Infectious Grooves - EpicVocals 1992The Art of Rebellion- Suicidal Tendencies - EpicVocals 1992F.N.G.- Suicidal Tendencies - EpicVocals 1993Sarsippius' Ark- Infectious Grooves - EpicVocals 1993Still Cyco After All These Years- Suicidal Tendencies - EpicVocals 1994Groove Family Cyco- Infectious Grooves - EpicVocals 1994Suicidal for LifeSuicidal TendenciesEpicVocals 1996Lost My Brain! (Once Again)- Cyco Miko - EpicVocals 1997Friends & Family, Vol. 1- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal RecordsVocals 1997Prime Cuts- Suicidal Tendencies - EpicVocals 1998Six the Hard Way- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal RecordsVocals 1999Freedumb- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Records/SideOneDummyVocals 2000Mas Borracho- Infectious Grooves - Suicidal RecordsVocals 2000Free Your Soul and Save My Mind- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal RecordsVocals 2001Schizophrenic Born Again Problem Child- Cyco Miko - Suicidal RecordsVocals 2001Friends & Family, Vol. 2- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal RecordsVocals 2008When Angels & Serpents Dance- P.O.D. - ColumbiaVocals 2008Year of the Cycos- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal RecordsVocals 2010No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal RecordsVocals 2011The Mad Mad Muir Musical Tour- Cyco Miko - Suicidal RecordsVocals 201313Suicidal Tendencies- Suicidal Tendencies - Vocals 2016World Gone Mad- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal RecordsVocals 2018Still Cyco Punk After All These Years- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal RecordsVocals Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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