Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem playing has the sound of a tenor saxophone and his instrument appears to be an alto saxophone. In "", it's revealed that he celebrates Hanukkah. Lips joined the Electric Mayhem for several numbers during the final season of "The Muppet Show", playing the trumpet. His name naturally refers to the fact that trumpet players use their lips to play. He has yellow hair, goatee and a permanent squint. His appearances on the "Muppet Show" were few and far between and when he did appear in the later episodes or movies, he rarely did anything besides play the trumpet. One of
Mayhem (band) vocalist after Dead's suicide, made this statement about him: "He [Dead] didn't see himself as human; he saw himself as a creature from another world. He said he had many visions that his blood has frozen in his veins, that he was dead. That is the reason he took that name. He knew he would die." In 1990, the members of Mayhem moved to "an old house in the forest" near Oslo, which was used as a place for the band to rehearse. They began writing songs for their next album, "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas". Mayhem bassist Necrobutcher said that,