The Auto Body Experience is a St. Paul, Minnesota septet that uses a broad stylistic palette to paint odd landscapes populated by unusual characters. Stylistically they’ll combine snippets of Benny Goodman, klezmer, country, and rocking blues all in the course of one song. Lyrically they might reveal that your dad paid the neighbor kids to play with you, expose the conspiratorial disappearance of Mr. Potato Head’s pipe, or praise Charles Darwin’s experiments with earthworms. “What kind of music do they play?” Try to think of Frank Zappa and Woody Allen collaborating in a ill-advised attempt to write songs for the Beatles, subsequently performed by a scaled-down, white suburban version of the Sun Ra Arkestra.

The group is led by guitarist/vocalist Scott Yoho, who's been featured in Guitar Player Magazine. He and drummer Dean White try to outdo each other in odd resume entries: Scott toured for years with 60’s pop star Gene Pitney (Scott’s pant leg once appeared on Entertainment Tonight!), while Dean has worked in Vegas, Tokyo and on The Merv Griffin Show. The Car Horns (Tom Twiss, trumpet/voice and Max Wendt, woodwinds) have also performed with Sire/Elektra recording artists Tina And The B-Side Movement. Trey Zehr-Grimm plays keyboards despite the fact that he was raised by wolves, Tardy Tom Larson plays the bass and sings when he manages to show up on time, and percussionist Jim Guckenberg defies his mild-mannered appearance and rocks with the ferocity of a hurricane, while rarely endangering human life.

Together, as The Auto Body Experience, they have performed with such noted artists as Adrian Belew, Brave Combo, Dread Zeppelin, and Moxy Früvous.

Their recordings “The Auto Body Experience” (1992), “Smash Hits” (1995) and “A Tribute To Carhenge” (1999) have received critical acclaim, and impressive college and commercial radio airplay including spots on national radio programs Dr. Demento, Car Talk, The Splendid Table, and, oddly enough, CNBC.