He has a golden face, gloved hands, and a chain around his neck. Zero (Bryan Barbarin) is a swing-styled robot built out of prototype systems.She plays accordion, melodica, keytar, and kazookaphone. You'll likely see her in old videos as a male robot wearing a black coachman's hat with steampunk-style goggles on it and a black vest with red accents, but was gender swapped in 2014 following her performer coming out as transgender, making her the band's lone female. Rabbit (Isabella "Bunny" Bennett) is a copper clockwork robot, known for being the glitchiest of the robots.He plays guitar primarily, but also plays bass, mandolin, and keys. His skin is smooth silver, and he wears a black fedora and red tie. The Spine (David Michael Bennett) is a futuristic dieselpunk robot with a titanium alloy spinal column and convincing human mannerisms.A fictional timeline on the band's website chronicles the band's supposed "appearances" throughout the years at such notable places as the 1933 Chicago World's Fair and The Ed Sullivan Show.īesides their musical endeavors, the band publishes a Web Comic and has produced a card game based on characters in their backstory. The band's name is said to come from Walter's first robot, a giant mechanical giraffe. Called the 8th 1/2 Wonder of the World, the robots were a technological marvel that ran off steam powered engines and artificial intelligence. Walter in 1896 and kept in the Walter family over the years. The act combines the visual of robot pantomime with sketches, pop culture references, comic strips, improvised comedic dialogue, and original music.Īccording to the band's fictional backstory, the "musical automatons" were invented by a rich San Diego inventor named Colonel P. Steam Powered Giraffe (SPG) is a musical project formed in San Diego in 2008.
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