Electric Six is a six-piece Detroit-based rock band, that plays a mix of hard rock, funk and disco. They can be considered part of the Post-punk revival.
The band's first notorious formation was comprised of Dick Valentine (vocals), Rock and Roll Indian (guitar), Surge Joebot (guitar), Disco (bass, ex member of Detroit Cobras), and M (drums). Dick Valentine (real name Tyler Spencer) is and has always been the primary songwriter (both music and lyrics) of Electric Six, currently and under their former incarnation, when they were known as the Wildbunch. During the band's temporary split at the end of the 1990s, Tyler Spencer formed his own band called ' The Dirty Shame' and released one CD entitled 'Smog Cutter Love Story' which featured, among other tracks, a first version of Fire track 'Vengeance and Fashion'. The band reformed by 2001 to record and release the first release of 'Danger! High Voltage' and record the track 'Dealin' with death and stealin' in the name of the Lord' with Troy Gregory for his 'Sybil' album.
The Six's sound is immediately distinguishable by its frequent fusing of the macho aggression of heavy metal and punk with the laid-back funky rhythms and falsetto vocals of disco, and a distinctly comic touch. They, however, vehemently reject such genre classifications as disco-metal and disco-punk. They formed the band in 1996 and were initially known as The Wildbunch, eventually dropping that name due to pressure from the Bristol trip-hop collection of the same name. Throughout the latter half of the '90s, they played about once a month at the Magic Bag in Ferndale, Magic Stick, and the now-defunct Gold Dollar in Detroit, the epicenter of a scene that produced breakout acts like the White Stripes.