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The Hot Monkey is the name under which Memphis musician Scott Taylor records and performs his solo material, as well as early versions of his Grifters contributions. His album More Than Lazy was described as low-key, lo-fi. Taylor, along with his Grifters bandmate Tripp Lamkins, has played dates in the Midwest and South. According to Billboard Taylor was due to record a Hot Monkey 7-inch for Sub Pop in 1998.

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The Hot Monkey is the name under which Memphis musician Scott Taylor (The Grifters, Porch Ghouls, StickyIckyIcky, Chopper Girl and Memphis Babylon) records and performs his solo material, as well as early versions of his Grifters contributions. His album More Than Lazy was described as low-key, lo-fi. Taylor, along with his Grifters bandmate Tripp Lamkins, has played dates in the Midwest and South. According to Billboard Taylor was due to record a Hot Monkey 7-inch for Sub Pop in 1998.

He also runs the Memphis hip hop label, Hoodoo Labs.

Discography

Lion (Personal Favorite/Positive Force (reissue), 1989/1996)

recorded between 1985 and 1989

Shark b/w Depends 7-inch (Shangri-La 005, 1993)

recorded May 1986/Summer 1985

"Sain" split 7-inch single with Linda Heck (Shangri-La 007, 1994)

recorded 1992

Lazy 10-inch, (Shangri-La 009, 1994)

recorded 1994

"Hambone's Meditations" 7-inch split with Ross Johnson & Jim Dickonson, (Sugar Ditch Records, 1995)

The Hot Monkey: "Whole Lotta Shakin'"

"More Than Lazy" (Shangri-la 020, 1996)

recorded 1994–1996

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Notable quotes

“LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
“Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.”
— Horace, Satires
“"Laziness, open the door or you'll burn!" - "I'll burn, but I won't open it!"”
— Russian: Лень, отвори дверь, сгоришь! - Хоть сгорю, да не отворю.
“If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.”
— Henry Ward Beecher, p. 345.
“A good many people are complaining all the time about themselves, and crying out, "My leanness! my leanness!" when they ought rather to say, " My laziness! my laziness!"”
— Dwight L. Moody, p. 346.
“The only cure for indolence is work; the only cure for selfishness is sacrifice; the only cure for unbelief is to shake off the ague of doubt, by doing Christ's bidding; the only cure for timidity is to plunge into some dreaded duty before the chill comes on.”
— Samuel Rutherford, p. 346.

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