There are 3 artists which called Mumps 1) An alias of Umek, released 4 Techno EPs on Tortured Records. All his tracks are called Mechanisms, starting from A, currently the last one is S. 2) There is a project of german trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff called Mumps, with some rare recordings in late 70s Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone, guitar, voice John Surman - baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, piano, synthesizer Barre Phillips - bass, voice Stu Martin - drums, synthesizer 3) An american punk rock band Mumps From their website: Kristian Hoffman first met Lance Loud in Mr. Baker's art class at Santa Barbara High School. ...show more

There are 3 artists which called Mumps 1) An alias of Umek, released 4 Techno EPs on Tortured Records. All his tracks are called Mechanisms, starting from A, currently the last one is S. 2) There is a project of german trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff called Mumps, with some rare recordings in late 70s Albert Mangelsdorff - trombone, guitar, voice John Surman - baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, piano, synthesizer Barre Phillips - bass, voice Stu Martin - drums, synthesizer 3) An american punk rock band Mumps From their website: Kristian Hoffman first met Lance Loud in Mr. Baker's art class at Santa Barbara High School.

Lance was pinning dead avocado leaves to the neck of a huge papier mache sculpture of a dodo bird. This vision set the tenor for many of their subsequent adventures together. Even though they recorded a pre-release version of the Rolling Stones playing "Brown Sugar" at Altamont, and claimed authorship of that revered composition until "Sticky Fingers" was released, Lance's and Kristian's shared obsessions for the Velvets, the Stooges, The Kinks, Sparks and the Small Faces might never have led to forming a "real" band had they not run away to New York City as teenagers and witnessed the explosive birth of the New York Dolls. This was all the encouragement they needed.

It wasn't enough for Kristian to just design the famous "Bendover Girl" insert for the Doll's first album - Kristian and Lance HAD to form a band. So conscripting S.B.High School alumnus Jay Dee Daugherty, along with shy Vermont transplant Aaron Kiely and D.C. guitar god Rob DuPrey, the Mumps were born. Mumps rehearsed, wrote a set of crazily varied glam pop kitsch ditties, and opened for Cherry Vanilla at Trude Hellers for their live debut to a crowd that included David Bowie and Tomata DuPlenty. ...show less