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Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, or simply The Electric Mayhem, are an American Muppet rock sextet that debuted in 1975 on the puppet sketch comedy television series The Muppet Show. Serving as the show's house band, the group’s personalities and appearances were inspired by prominent real-life rock and jazz musicians. They subsequently appeared in various Muppet films and television specials and have also recorded album tracks and covered numerous songs. The Electric Mayhem are a sextet: Dr. Teeth on vocals and keyboards, Animal on drums, Floyd Pepper on vocals and bass, Janice on vocals and lead guitar, Zoot on saxophone, and Lips on trumpet. The band's members were originally performed by Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, and Steve Whitmire, respectively; they are presently performed by Bill Barretta, Eric Jacobson, Matt Vogel, David Rudman, Goelz, and Peter Linz, respectively. The group made their debut in 1975's The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, the pilot for The Muppet Show. Dr. Teeth and Animal were designed by Henson, Zoot was designed by Bonnie Erickson, while Floyd and Janice were designed by Michael K. Frith. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Tee...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
