It seems Michael Cera isn’t the only Superbad cast member with musical aspirations. Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who you will know, for better or worse, as McLovin, is also the bass player in a band called Bear On Fire.
As FasterLouder reports, the band, who create a rather charming indie concoction as evidenced in the track ‘Feeling’ embedded below, unveiled their debut album, Velicata Back, under the radar a few months back.
They formed after Mintz-Plasse’s former band, Young Rapscallions, in which he played drums, dissolved. “We didn’t really know what to do,” Mintz-Plasse told Stereogum. “At the time, I was starting to learn bass, and the lead singer, Adam, he and I would just sit in my backyard and write tunes…”
“I guess when the Young Raps ended, I didn’t have anywhere to go musically, so we started hitting that full force… I’d say the first six months of writing music, we were just kinda figuring out what we were, smoking weed and jamming.”
Speaking to Stereogum, Mintz-Plasse also addressed the fact that Bear On Fire will more than likely be referred to as “McLovin’s Band” in perpetuity throughout the universe, saying, “That’s a hard thing to deal with.”
“But also, there’s more ears. Maybe they’ll be like, ‘Oh, this actor’s in this band, I’ll give it a listen.’ Five people can hate it, five people can love it, so I think having more ears on it is always a positive, too.”
