# Psychefunkapus
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{{Short description|American funk metal band}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Psychefunkapus
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| origin = [San Geronimo Valley](/source/San_Geronimo_Valley), [California](/source/California), United States
| genre = [Funk metal](/source/Funk_metal)[{{cite journal|first= Daina |last= Darzin |first2= Lauren |last2= Spencer |title= The Thrash-Funk scene proudly presents Primus, along with a host of others. Go for the funk, don't get your dreds stomped in the metal mosh pit. |volume= 6 |issue= 10 |page= 39 |issn= 0886-3032 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=z9fMwxwJ7tkC&pg=PA39&dq=%22funk%22 |magazine= [Spin](/source/Spin_(magazine)) |date= January 1991}}]
| years_active = 1986–1992, (reunion: 2010)
| label = [Atlantic](/source/Atlantic_Records)
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| current_members = [Gene Genie](/source/Gene_Genie)
Manny Martinez
[Atom Ellis](/source/Atom_Ellis)
Paul Johnson
[Jonnie Axtell](/source/Jonnie_Axtell)
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'''Psychefunkapus''' was a [funk metal](/source/funk_metal) band from the [San Francisco Bay Area](/source/San_Francisco_Bay_Area) that released two albums for [Atlantic Records](/source/Atlantic_Records) in the early nineties. They got their name from their love of psychedelic music and a reference to a [P-Funk](/source/P-Funk) song warning the coming of the "Funkapus".
==History==
Psychefunkapus formed in the [San Geronimo Valley](/source/San_Geronimo_Valley), in California, in 1986 and achieved a rise to prominence in San Francisco clubs by 1988. [Deftones](/source/The_Deftones)' first gig was opening for Psychefunkapus, and other well-known artists such as [Green Day](/source/Green_Day) and [No Doubt](/source/No_Doubt) have opened for them as well. Psychefunkapus in turn has opened for [Pearl Jam](/source/Pearl_Jam), [The Sugarcubes](/source/The_Sugarcubes), [Was Not Was](/source/Was_Not_Was), [Steel Pole Bathtub](/source/Steel_Pole_Bathtub), [The Beatnigs](/source/The_Beatnigs), [The Charlatans](/source/The_Charlatans_(English_band)), and [The Vandals](/source/The_Vandals).[[http://www.jaxtell.com/resume.html telling] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060714194244/http://jaxtell.com/resume.html |date=2006-07-14 }}]
Their first, self-titled album featured a dual vocal lineup consisting of Gene Genie and Manny Martinez. That debut album was produced by Marc DeSisto. Recorded at Alfa Omega Studio In SF, CA.
Their second album, ''Skin'' featured only Manny Martinez on vocals. That album was produced by [Jerry Harrison](/source/Jerry_Harrison) at Studio D in Sausalito and the [Record Plant](/source/Record_Plant) in California. [Dick Dale](/source/Dick_Dale) and [Bernie Worrell](/source/Bernie_Worrell) both contributed tracks to several songs on the album.