In a July 2014 press release for Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Carla Kihlstedt announced that a new track featuring almost all members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, including Michael Mellender who "penned the architecture of this one," was to be released in August 2014.
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Nils Frykdahl, Dan Rathbun, Michael Iago Mellender, and David Shamrock, along with Drew Wheeler, formed a new band called Free Salamander Exhibit in 2013. In 2013, Matthias Bossi and Mike Patton, Scott Amendola and William Winant performed a live score for the 1924 silent film Waxworks, with the performance said to be filmed. It was also their intention to release a final album, a short film, and a live DVD. In February 2011, the band announced that they would play three final shows in California. Prior to the release, an mp3 and music video of the song "Helpless Corpses Enactment" were made available online. In January 2006 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum signed to The End Records who re-released their début Grand Opening and Closing with three bonus tracks.ĭuring early 2007, the title and track list for their third studio album, In Glorious Times was announced with the release date set for May 29, 2007. The Of Natural History tour saw Moe! Staiano's exit, and new multi-instrumentalist Michael Iago Mellender's entrance. Grau also co-released the album, instigated their first tour and managed the band.ĭuring the recording of the follow-up, Of Natural History (2004), Grau left the band and was replaced by new drummer Matthias Bossi, formerly of Skeleton Key. Some time during the recording of Grand Opening and Closing (2001), drummer David Shamrock left the band and was replaced by Frank Grau. The following night's performance was their first to a human audience.
Their first performance, on June 22, 1999, was given to a single banana slug ( Ariolimax dolichophallus). After the disbanding of Idiot Flesh, Nils Frykdahl and Dan Rathbun joined with Carla Kihlstedt (with whom Frykdahl and Rathbun had played in the band Charming Hostess) to form Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, along with percussionists Moe! Staiano and David Shamrock.