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Elvis Wayne Donovan

Elvis Wayne Donovan is the rhythm guitar player and singer for the garage punk cover band Bathrobe Rebellion and their side project, The [happy] Youth in Asia. The Bathrobe Rebellion was founded by Donovan and co-founder Stump Hugelog as a project to get their respective kids interested in the post punk movement and give them an excuse to play guitar and have a beer on the weekends. Donovan, born in Los Angeles Ca in 1961 and started playing with the Gulf Avenue School band at the age of 9. He was a brass player there and in the famed Wilmington Junior High band, where his trombone solo in Stone Soup, stole the show at the 8th grade concert. Winning several (2) awards as an accordion player at the Western States Accordion Festival spurred him into giving up music altogether until he picked up the saxophone to stave off madness while in forced exile to the state of Texas in the early 80's. Playing tenor horn with the swamp rock band Faix Deux Do at the notorious Boudan Hut in Port Arthur Texas for a single show in 1984 that is still talked about to this day in some circles, again drove the artist into seclusion. Elvis spent the years between Texas and the Bathrobe Rebellion honing his craft as a mediocre guitar and ukulele player and it was when he linked up with longtime friend, Stump Hugelog over a beer at the High Dive Club in Bay Park Ca, that the two decided that the time was right to bring the Bathrobes to life.