Arion Salazar
bass, backing vocals
Birthday - August 9
Height - 5'10"
Weight - 155
Describes himself as - thoughtful, generous, and romantic
Worst habit - playing loud music in his hotel room
Pet peeves - people who don't clean up after themselves
Most embarrassing moment - Censored
Biggest turn on - dark-haired cuties
Greatest Compliment Ever Received - "My Mom says I'm handsome."
Best day of his life - The first time he heard the Beatles
Biggest musical influence - The Beatles
Other musical influences - David Bowie, Camper Van Beethoven, 60's and 70's British Bands, Beatles, Paul McCartney
Favorite artists of the moment - Foo Fighters and Diamonda Gallas [an experimental singer].
Other bands and or projects - Was in Fungo Mungo from 1989-94. He wrote and produced the soundtrack to the ActiVision CD-ROM game interstate 76. It featured his side project Bullmark.
Boxers/Briefs - "Briefs are suffocating, and boxers get all bunched up in my trousers. I keep my package comfy in boxer-briefs."
Favorite song on the album - 'How's It Going to Be' or 'The Background' [Different sites have different answers]
~ Everyone agrees he's the loud mouth of the band
~ Wears his hair in pigtails at the concerts
~ From Oakland, CA
~ Got really sick in London with the flu and have to be hospitalized for 3 days. 3EB had to cancel one of their London performances.
~ Name is pronounced 'A-Ryan" or like the constellation Orion but with an -A- instead of an -O-.
~ Doesn't have his Driver's License
~ Only one who didn't attend UC Berkeley
~ According to the Fungo Mungo CD ["Humungous" released in 1992] Arion's old nickname is "Thumpy Z"
~ Does a little piano playing in 'Jumper'
~ The name comes from... Arion was a real musician and poet in 7th Century Greece. He was so famous that after he died, he was make into a minor God. The famous story about Arion goes like this. Arion was traveling by boat on his way back to Corinth from playing and singing for the King of Sicily. The lowlife sailors heard that he had been given a lot of gold by the King because of his beautiful playing so they plotted to throw him overboard at dawn the next day. The god Apollo heard them, and to protect Arion [Apollo was patron of music], he came to Arion in a dream and revealed what the sailors were planning. The next morning at dawn when the sailors came for him, Arion begged them to let him play and sing one more time. As he played, the many dolphins who swam along side boats in the Mediterranean came up along the boat where he sat singing. The sailors threw him overboard and the leader of the dolphins rose up under him, carrying Arion on his back. The dolphins carried Arion safely all the way to the shore of his home. The picture that has been seen with this story shows a young man riding a dolphin with a lyre, which is a small stringed instrument, in his hand.