The Dwarves Must Die is the 2004 release by the American punk band Dwarves.
 It is the band's first release on the "Sympathy for the Record Industry" label.
 There are several cameos, including Dexter Holland from The Offspring, Nash Kato from Urge Overkill, desert rock icon Nick Oliveri, Josh Freese from The Vandals, Spike Slawson from Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, gangster rapper San Quinn, DJ Marz, and even the original Space Ghost himself, Gary Owens.
 The rather freeform departure from the standard thrash/punk/noise sound is obvious in this release, slightly more so than in previous Dwarves productions, perhaps because they have been producing music for almost 20 years; however the original sound of the Dwarves shows clearly in several tracks.
Roger Dean (born David Roger Bryan Dean; 16 March 1943 in Hendon, Middlesex – 3 August 2008) was a British guitar player and teacher.
 First took piano lessons at age 7, then guitar at age 10.
 Then had musical training at Eric Guilder guitar school in London with teacher Ivor Mairants.
 His professional career ran over 40 years until he retired following a car crash in 2004.
 During the 1960s he played in a number of bands which left few traces in the history of popular music.
 The notable exception occurred when he joined briefly John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
 Dean's guitar is heard on Mayall's first album and single.
 Leaving Mayall, he went to work with his former band the Nu Notes.
 In 1971, he played with a band called Spike Island and recorded an album with them, a mixture of folk, country and world music.
 Later, as a member of various other bands like The Bluejays, P. P. Arnold's backing band and The Bad Boys, he recorded on some hits, but gradually turned to more anonymous work as a session musician playing for TV shows, backing stars and other lucrative jobs, such as cruises on the QE2 as guitarist with The Joe Loss Orchestra.
 In 1978, Dean became the first western musician allowed to play on electric guitar in China.
 From 1992 he held teaching posts at various British schools.
 After a serious illness, Dean died in 2008.
Epitome Music Library (EML) is an American-based multinational production music library located in Los Angeles, California that licenses music for film, television, commercials, video games, and other audio / video productions.
 EML represents the music of over 300 award-winning composers and many popular bands and artists.
 With hundreds of licenses, credits include placements on many television networks, such as CBS, NBC, ABC, MTV, Oxygen, Spike, CW, A&E, and many more.
The Upbeat was formed in 1985, in the small beach-side community of Carpinteria, CA.
 Heavily influenced by the 2 Tone Ska of the late 70s and early 80s, the group was formed by Eric "Scaric" Vallen (rhythm guitar), Brandon "Hossinn" Seider (bass guitar), Mike "Oreo" Organista (lead vocs), Grant "Saxpa" Cox (saxophone), Mike "Pussard" Honeyman (trumpet), Chaska "The Weasel" Slawson (drums), and Mark "Sparky" Gonzales (Merchandise Master/Designated Driver).
 2011 saw the introduction of new members, ska/reggae/rocksteady legends Zac Pike (lead guitar) and Dan Boer (keys), from the bands Sandollar Sounds and Dynamic Pressure, as well as Brian "Polar Bear" LeBlanc (drums), from Santa Barbara's Civil Unrest and Makai.
Spike Slawson is an American punk rock musician, a member of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Swingin' Utters, Filthy Thievin' Bastards, Re-Volts, and Uke-Hunt.
Costadinos Contostavlos (born 11 June 1987), better known by his stage name Dappy, is an English singer, songwriter, rapper, and actor.
 He is best known for being the lead singer of the Camden-based grime trio N-Dubz, with his cousin Tulisa, and Fazer.
 He was known for his slightly unusual dress sense and his love for what he describes as "eye-catching headwear".
 His trademark was wearing a selection of woolly chullos (sometimes referred to as "Dappy hats"), turning up one or both of the ear-flaps of the hat.
Vriesea splendens or flaming sword is a species of flowering plant in the bromeliad family, subfamily Tillandsioideae.
 Native to Trinidad, eastern Venezuela and the Guianas these plants were introduced to Europe in 1840.
 This species of Vriesea features smooth-margined foliage with brown bands growing in a rosette, usually producing a bright red inflorescence in a flattened spike.
Philip "Spike" Edney (born 11 December 1951 in Portsmouth, England) is an English musician who, since the early 1970s, has performed with a number of bands, most notably with Queen in their live concerts, where his participation started in 1984.
 In the earlier phase of his career, during the mid-1970s, he recorded and toured with The Tymes and Ben E. King, playing keyboards, bass, guitar and trombone.
 Subsequently, in the late 1970s, he was musical director for Edwin Starr and, during the early 1980s, worked with Duran Duran, The Boomtown Rats, Dexys Midnight Runners, Bucks Fizz, Haircut One Hundred and The Rolling Stones.
 He also appeared with Peter Green on his comeback tour.
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Uke-Hunt is a ukulele-based cover band fronted by Spike Slawson from Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
 Although both this and the Gimmes are cover bands, they have very different approaches.
 While the Gimmes generally pick non-rock songs and rock them out and speed them up to turn them into punk music, while in this band, the songs picked are generally upbeat songs that are then slowed down and mellowed out.
The Filthy Thieving Bastards is an American folk/punk rock group formed in 2000 in San Francisco, California.
 The band was originally a side project put together by Johnny Bonnel and Darius Koski of the Swingin' Utters.
 Spike Slawson (also from Swingin' Utters) later joined the band, along with recording engineer Randy Burk.
 Greg Lisher from Camper Van Beethoven guested on guitar for several songs on their second release.
 Their music is influenced by folk rock, Celtic rock, country music, 60's pop, and punk rock, with an acknowledged and oft-noted debt to the music of The Pogues.

Question: Who has been in more bands, Spike Slawson or Dappy?
Answer: Spike Slawson