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The band consisted of Dr. Teeth (band leader and piano), Janice (guitar), Sgt. Floyd Pepper (bass guitar), Zoot (saxophone) and Animal (drums). In season five, Lips joined the band on trumpet. Animal, Floyd, Zoot and Janice also played in the Muppet Show pit band, performing the opening and closing themes and underscoring most of the Muppet Show performances. Rowlf the Dog was the pit pianist, however. This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... Fender Precision Bass Bass Guitar is a popular term that refers to electric and acoustic basses - stringed instruments similar in design to the guitar, but with longer scale and tuned lower in pitch. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Rowlf is a Muppet musician from Jim Hensons The Muppet Show. ...

Members

• Dr. Teeth is the keyboard player and gravelly-voiced leader of the band. He has a gold tooth he claims he fashioned by melting down his gold records, a scruffy beard, a fur vest, a striped shirt, and a floppy purple top hat. A running gag on the show — due to the mechanics of working a puppet's arms from below, often a two-man job — was Teeth's arms stretching to ridiculous lengths while playing his instrument. Jim Henson based the character, which he designed and voiced, on the musician Dr. John.

• Janice (sometimes Janis) is a rhythm guitar player. She wears a brown hat with a turquoise gem and a feather. This fickle flower girl has entertained crushes on both Zoot and Floyd Pepper. She also acts in sketches periodically, particularly as an inept, wisecracking nurse in a recurring parody of medical dramas. She speaks in a "Valley girl" sing-song voice. Janice was performed and voiced by Richard Hunt until his death in 1992; Eren Ozker voiced her during the first season of The Muppet Show. Her name is an homage to Janis Joplin. The character was largely retired until 2002, when she appeared in the 2002 TV movie It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, performed by Brian Henson.

• Sgt. Floyd Pepper plays bass guitar. A laid back hippie-type with a pink body and long reddish-orange hair, he usually wore a green army cap, or sometimes, while in the pit, a slightly fancier cap of stiffer, glittery material, and a red uniform with epaulets and ornate gold braid on the buttons. His name is a reference to both Pink Floyd and the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His jacket is a clear visual reference to the album. He is performed and voiced by Jerry Nelson.

Zoot on The Muppet Show

• Zoot is a green, balding, blue-haired saxophone player with dark glasses and a high-crowned blue felt hat, and was generally a laid back fellow of few words. Perhaps his best line came in The Great Muppet Caper, when the gang is planning to rob a museum before the real crooks, and trying to get their supplies together unsuccessfully. Kermit mentions a particular item, and Zoot says, "Man, I just had 'em!"

"Did you leave 'em in your other pants?" someone else asks.

Zoot comes back: "I ain't got no other pants!"

Zoot's claim to fame was playing the final off key note to the end theme of the show, then looking into his saxophone with a bewildered expression, checks his music and gives a satisfied nod and looks around at the other musicians and gives the same nod. Curiously, the note played is the lowest note on the baritone saxophone, while Zoot's instrument appears to be an alto.

His name comes from "zoot suit", a large-shouldered, taper-waisted, gaudy garment popular in the 1940s. It is alternately possible that his name comes from Zoot Sims, a great jazz tenor saxophone player. It is also believed that he is based on the great blues saxophonist Lou Marini. Zoot is performed and voiced by Dave Goelz.

Animal on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

• Animal is the drummer. He has also appeared on the Muppets Tonight show, as well as all the Muppet movies. He may have been "inspired" by the antics of Keith Moon of The Who. During performances, Animal is usually chained to the drum set, as his musical outbursts are extremely violent. He opts to wear football shoulder pads instead of a shirt (when he is not in his maroon band uniform).

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In the movie The Great Muppet Caper, it is revealed that Animal has a passion for impressionist paintings, especially those of Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

In the movie Muppets from Space, Animal meets his match in the form of a security guard played by Kathy Griffin - after chasing her down a hallway with his "Woo-man" call, she later returns him, with Animal acting submissive and sheepish, and lets him go (after reminding him to call her and blowing him a kiss.)

Ty Pennington commented that Animal had ADHD, when the character was appearing on an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. This fact is disputable, as the appearance can easily be considered not part of the Muppets canon.