Band Member Bios
Name: &roid
Role: Bass, Accordion, Banjo, Trombone, Autoharp, Vocals
Fast Fact: Technically classified as a super-computer, &roid cannot be legally exported.
Bio: Christened "Cellonator4000" by his creators, his positronic nets first whirred to life in September of 2004. Typically, such an achievement would be heralded throughout the world press, but alas, it was an election year...
Designed by the crack-team of veedee mad-scientists, he was intended to fill Professor Dre's shoes. Hours were spent in the frail halo of dim desk-lamp light. Equations filled the notebooks stacked from floor to ceiling. Gallons of cheap lab coffee were drained. Until at last, the culmination.
But as things often do in the land of test-tubes and mechanical monstrosity, something went awry. Whether it was the rusty slide-rule or the overheating Univac, we may never know. The bottom line is that these would be Feynmen's should have paid more attention to their NASA forebearers when making calculations. You see, the cello dimensions had been taken in feet, but the calculations were done in meters.
Thus arose this cello of unholy size. Upon learning of his foiled fate, Cellonator4000 decided to take up a new name -- &roid. Thus, like "the Artist" (a.k.a. Prince), confounding countless of the symbolic-pronunciation challenged for years to come.
But was it duty that led him to the Revolution? Or honor? Or was it simply good programming? That, friends, is a question best put to &roid himself. Whatever the case, he lends not only his nano-precision playing, but also uncanny compositional abilities that make Glass look like a charlatan and Barber look like a second-chair.
Yes... like Deej said, "Robots are good friends to have."