Education
Under the stage name Sickie Wifebeater, Carlson started The Mentors in Seattle in 1976 with bass guitarist Steve Broy (Doctor Heathen Scum) and singer/drummer Eldon Hoke (El Duce) who attended Roosevelt High School together.
Under the stage name Sickie Wifebeater, Carlson started The Mentors in Seattle in 1976 with bass guitarist Steve Broy (Doctor Heathen Scum) and singer/drummer Eldon Hoke (El Duce) who attended Roosevelt High School together.
Guitars
Wifebeater plays or has played the following guitars
A 1964 red Gibson SG with one P-90 pickup and one DiMarzio super distortion Humbucker
A 1965 red Gibson SG stock P-90 pickups
Early 1980s silver Boogiebodies Stratocaster
A 1970s black Ventura Les Paul Copy (used in early 1980s)
Amplifiers
Sickie Wifebeater uses a 1978 or 1979 Marshall MKII 100 Watt Lead with checkerboard speaker cabinets. Originally, he used the fullstack as pictured on the Get Up and Die album cover but in later years he mainly ran it as a halfstack. Get Up and Die (1983)
Mentors Fuck Movie (1987)
A Piece Of Sinema (1990)
The Wretched World of The Mentors (1990)
Mentors Tour De Max "91 (1991)
El Duce, The Manitoba
The Myth.
The Video. (1993)
Mentors - El Duce Vita Digital Video Disc (2007).