G-Tones Member: Vince Mertes
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Vince Mertes

Well hello there! Grinnell

Year: 2008

Major: Music

Current Role in G-Tones: none

Groups Participating in on Campus: Unknown





Bio: Vince is a rocketship star-alien born in the teenage wastelands of California. He was hauled to the Midwest by an elaborate network of pulleys at the tender age of three, or something, where he grew up under the harsh tutelage of the Wells Blue Bunny ice cream factory.

The factory-town was a barren and unyielding place for a young rocketship whatever to learn the ropes, and some may say that our hero never quite "found his groove" there.

Luckily for him, at eighteenish he was selected by random lottery to be blasted out of the factory by means of a gigantic cannon-o-pault and, even more luckily, he landed smack-dab in the middle of Grinnellsville, Iowa, where the jackrabbits roam free.

Here he spends most of his time chillin' out and constructing a transdimensional hovercraft out of discarded lollipop-sticks and determination.

He works after school as the watchman of a cranberry bog.
Cranberry bog theft is the leading cause of scurvy in the Midwest and Vince has lobbied Congress thrice for more support to no avail.

If you would like to learn more about cranberry thieves, please contact Vince as soon as possible.

Mystery, intrigue, and mystery surround the reasons for Vince's induction into the G-Tones.
Some say he was selected by random lottery.
Others say he showed up to rehearsal and just refused to leave.
Still others say his unique genetic rocketship makeup serves as a strange, chemical boost in morale to the other members, and although his own voice is acidic and verges on unlistenable, the group benefits overall from his presence.

The truth is that no one may ever know for sure. What they do know for sure is that the G-Tones will probably be stuck with Vince for some time--perhaps as much as two to three weeks--before his life cycle is complete and he metamorphoses into a cactus with googly eyes.


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