The Mentors is a heavy metal band, who formed in 1978 in Seattle, then moved to Los Angeles in 1979. They billed themselves as the inventors of "rape rock", essentially early 1970s style heavy metal with extremely sexist lyrics. They were a popular live act in Los Angeles in the 1980s, but the chronic, acute alcoholism of singer/drummer Eldon Hoke, better known as El Duce caused them to slow down in the 1990s and eventually cease activity.
The Mentors were known outside of West Coast heavy metal and underground rock circles chiefly for their lyrics being cited by Tipper Gore during the Parents Music Resource Center hearings in Congress, and then being used by Frank Zappa on his "Mothers of Prevention" album. El Duce later appeared in Nick Broomfeld's documentary about the death of Kurt Cobain, "Kurt and Courtney".
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