Humphrey B. Flaubert

Humphrey B. Flaubert is the founding vocalist, primary songwriter and drummer/percussionist in TISM (aka This Is Serious Mum). Flaubert's pseudonym is a portmanteau of French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880) and Australian children's TV icon Humphrey B. Bear (1965 – 2008).
Flaubert has been a member of TISM in all its guises since its inception, and since the late 1980s has often appeared (alongside Ron Hitler-Barassi) as one of the band's primary spokesmen in media interviews and television appearances. 
Reports that Flaubert has led a prolific musical career outside of TISM remain unconfirmed by the band; officially there is no member of TISM by the name of Damian Cowell.
==Official biography==
Humphrey B. Flaubert: rhythm, libido, lead vocals; position: rape of the virgins
You've seen him with roto toms, cow bells, gongs, and gigantic tribal drums on stage. But at the end of the day, it's much easier to press "start" on a drum machine: Roland TR808, TR909, TR606, Alesis D4 DrumModule, Yamaha DX7 and DX11 machines are used. Samples have been taken from the Casio VT 68, VL-1, Wersimatic WM-24, Visco SpaceDrum, Vermona Programmable, Mattel Syn-sonic Drums, Mel-o-sonic 350 and Electro-harmonics DRM32, as showcased in the track "Great Expectorations". 
Humphrey also uses a black Tama Swing Star drum kit including 9" deep wooden snare, 22" kick, 14" Paiste 303 hi-hats and 18 " 2002 Paiste crash. (Kit also includes 2x rack toms and 1x floor toms plus 2x rototoms, not used.)
Humphrey, aka "Mr. Sampler", uses an Akai S2800 with increased memory, Cubase software , Alesis and Fostex 8track ADAT machines, plus Roland D550 and TB303 bass synths. Synth and drum samples have been lifted from various house, dub, and techno recordings - all other samples come from the Flaubert vinyl collection.
Humphrey is TISM's lead vocalist. However he sees his role in the group as "the ugly bloke who can't sing or dance, hanging around like a bad smell and doing those annoying "rappin'" bits inbetween the singing of a couple of gorgeous girls in one-millimetre space suits, as found on your Boney M, Aqua, La Bouche type records." 
Well aware of the correlation between drum-kits/gym membership/car-as-penis, Flaubert wishes to make it clear that he has the smallest drumkit in rock.
===Profile (from "Let's Form a Company" music video, 1991)===
:HUMPHERY B. FLAUBERT
:Position
:Rape of the virgins
:Age
:57
:Batting Average
:74.60
: Likes: The Karpov defense, swapping rook for pawn in move no. 62
:Hates: TISM
==See also==
*TISM
* Damian Cowell
*The DC3
*Damian Cowell's Disco Machine
==External links==
*Humphrey B. Flaubert at tism.com.au (archived 6 December 2000 by archive.org)
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