SS Stormtrooper
ormer bass-payer for Mobile Stud Unit. SS Stormtrooper was the barkeep at the local bars (the Wailing Bongo and the Pavillion). His more than credible performance as reprobate Weasel in student soap opera 'Nixon St 110', love for alcohol, and uncanny nack for inviting Marxi to the after hours bar 'lock in' eventually earnt him a place in the band.
SS Stormtrooper was possibly the most politically and socially conservative musician in MSU's sordid history, and it was possibly this conservatism that led to the Stormtrooper's need to be more shocking than any of his bandmates. Hyper-revulsion techniques struck many as being contrived, though because SS Stormtrooper was so big and scary Aryan-looking that nobody ever told him. Followi8ng a highly successful tour of New Zealand University O-weeks, SS Stormtrooper was particularly famous for getting in a brawl involving the entire front row of a gig at the Wailing Bongo, and played on with blood streaming down his face after getting smacked. MSU lost the fight but won the gig. Shihad (the supporting act for the evening) also had a shit gig.
When Mobile Stud Unit held its tenth anniversary gig in 2004, SS Stormtrooper made an appearance and lived up to his disgusting reputation by throwing a dead pig's head into the audience. A woman caught it, not realising what it was until she saw the blood on her hands. SS later organised a rugby scrum with the pig's head as the ball. The Stormtrooper was delighted and this incident appears to have satiated his lust for scare tactics, as he is now rarely seen at MSU gigs and works in alcohol marketing.
