Official Bio #1 (revised May 2023, about time!)

Tanny hosted a radio show on the Internet called "I Still Get Demented" featuring funny songs from around the nation, and playing many novelty songs that never make it to broadcast radio anymore, beginning in 2003 and ending in 2017. He relaunched his show in late 2022 after testing two shows put together entirely on a smartphone and has changed the name to simply The ISGD, seen on the Mixcloud app under the name DT Adams.

He also created the world's first all-request funny music countdown show called the Dementia Top 20 in 2004, ending his stint in 2007. DJ Particle took it from 2008-2015.

As a side hobby, Tanny recorded novelty sketches and songs on occasion, as well as break-in interviews and specializes in satirical commercials (or fake ads).

Tanny got some national exposure in print in the November 1982 issue of "Electronic Games" magazine, had a "Viewer Mail" submission read on the August 24, 1991 episode of "Late Night with David Letterman", and had several of his letters featured on "Backchat" hosted by Jeff Probst on fX from 1994-1997.

Born in San Diego, Tanny had some songs and stuff played on terrestrial radio stations in 2006 such as "Friggin' Here" (now defunct) and others. The Christmas song "I'm Doing Nothing For Christmas" was featured in December 2005 on a radio station called Oldies 1520 in the Delta Valley.

Tanny got air play just once so far on the Dr. Demento Show on July 2, 2006: "Mariah Carey's Screamin' Hits" featuring excerpts of Mariah Carey's screaming in some of her songs. It was repeated one more time on the July 23, 2006 show. He also had a second song appear on Dr. Demento, "Boycott Bing", on the July 11, 2015 show. A third song, "My Haiku Song", aired on Dr. Demento on June 2, 2018.

Tanny's favorite TV shows include anything from the genres of variety, comedy, game shows, sports, cartoons, and sitcoms.

Tanny's influences include "Weird Al" Yankovic, Allan Sherman, Bob and Tom, Bob Newhart, Bob Rivers Comedy Corp, Cheech and Chong, Da Yoopers, Frank Zappa, Heywood Banks, Monty Python, Napoleon XIV, Ray Stevens, Second City Television, Sean Morey, Spike Jones, Stan Freberg, Steve Martin, the 70s era of Saturday Night Live, The Frantics, Tom Lehrer, talk radio, classic rock and roll, new wave music, old school funk, and more.

The subjects he writes about in his recordings span a wide variety of topics about television, celebrities, commercial take-offs, classic hits, life, geek culture, pop culture, video games, tributes to demented icons, and commercial and song parodies.

Tanny has made dozens of funmentia gems over the years. Examples are video games from the 80s: "Centipede" and "Pac-Man"; some adult cartoons: "South Park" and "Space Ghost"; numerous TV shows: "Beverly Hills 90210", "Eight is Enough", "Jeopardy!", "Hollywood Squares", and "Pokemon"; salutes to demented icons of the past: Cheech and Chong, Bob and Doug McKenzie, Napoleon XIV, Odgen Edsl, and the Not Ready for Prime Time Players; break-in interviews whose style was originated by Dickie Goodman; famous celebrities: David Hasselhoff, Hilary Duff, Mariah Carey, and Sarah Michelle Gellar; fast food such as Papa John's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Taco Bell; other topics include commercial parodies, beer, Michigan J. Frog, Wacky Packages, and many more recorded since 1998 including "Tonight at 8", "Fried Eggs", "Watch the Frog", "Warner Music", "Pat Sajak (is an Egg)", and "Hey, Three Stooges!"

Back in 1966, Tanny unwittingly created a song parody in first grade. While his class was standing up to salute the United States Flag, they recited Pledge of Allegiance, sang The Star Spangled Banner, and in between, the song he parodied, Flag of America. The first grade teacher wasn't impressed when Tanny substituted the word "Bank" for the word "Flag" so that he was singing about a "Bank of America", because that's the place where his parents banked back then. Thus, a parodist, whether he knew it or not, was born.

In 1972, he got a tape recorder and recorded excerpts of TV shows while doing an Ed Sullivan impression to introduce the next recorded track. His favorite topics were The Electric Company, Zoom, The Mouse Factory, and The Flintstones.

In 1998, he recorded the first songs that would later become part of his Stupid Audio CD series, which were first released in 2004 on CD, and before that, only to select funny music shows on cassette in 2000 since the CD burner in his old Sony VAIO computer didn't do the job of burning audio discs right.

Since 2004, Tanny has released uncountable homemade CDs, including a 30-minute break-in interview recorded in 1980 using analog tapes, back in the time before digital editing and recording took over.

In 2004, he released his first CD modestly titled "Stupid Audio 1.0", and released four more until he discontinued the "Stupid Audio" line in 2008. He has since resurrected the "Stupid Audio" name as the official a.k.a. name of his act.

In August of 2008, he released his first CD for commercial release titled "Yes Parking Anytime."

In 2010, he released eleven "10th Anniversary Collection" CDs in 2010 and 2011, and discontinued them at the end of the year. It featured one last chance to catch some of his early material before retiring them forever.

In 2012, he released some of his older material on a CD titled "Originals (2000-2012)". In 2012, he released two more albums, "Crazy Commercials" and "Instrumentals".

Since then, Tanny has been sporadically releasing some recordings every now and then, and recently put out two albums in 2023.

For more information on David Tanny please visit the artist's web site at: http://www.davidtanny.com/