The Mushroom River Band was a stoner rock group founded by guitarist Anders Linusson, bass player Alexander "Saso" Sekulovski and drummer Andreas Grafenauer in 1996. This line-up recorded one demo tape with Christian "Spice" Sjöstrand from Spiritual Beggars as a singer. In 1997 16 year old Chris Rockström took over on drums and Christian "Spice" Sjöstrand joined as a full time singer yet still being frontman in Spiritual Beggars. A vinyl EP called 'Rocketcrash' was released in 1999 on the band's own Tea Pot Records label. In 2000 the first full length album, 'Music For the World Beyond', was released and the year after Spice left Spiritual Beggars to concentrate solely on The Mushroom River Band. After releasing 'Simsalabim' in 2002 and the European tour that followed the band was put on hiatus.
Biography
The Mushroom River Band was founded in 1996 by Anders Linusson, Alexander "Saso" Sekulovski and Andreas Grafenauer. In their hometown Värnamo in Sweden they got together in June