Who is Richard Cheese?

Guns 'n Moses tried again with another hit, "Eat Too Much", a parody of a Janet Jackson song "Miss You Much", That also became a hit.

But in February of 1999, their signature smash, "We Love Barney Fife", a parody of the Billy Joel hit "We Didn't Start the Fire" first got played on Dr. Demento and has become a classic. The show is an tribute to the character on the Andy Griffith Show played by Don Knotts.

Their follow-up, "They Drive Me Brady", a parody of the Fine Young Cannibals' hit "She Drives Me Crazy", first got played in July of that year. Like the Barney Fife song, it uses sound clips from a TV show, but because of that, legally, they can't release the songs commercially, so they have become unreleased classics.

In 1997, Guns 'n Moses returned one last time on the Dr. Demento Show with a tribute to Gilligan's Island called "La Isla Gilligan '97", which was also an updated version of a 1987 unreleased tape also called "La Isla Gilligan" done by The Iceman. It was a parody of a Madonna song "La Isla Bonita."

Before Guns 'n Moses broke up for good, in 1997, Mark Jonathan Davis released an unreleased recording of his parody of a Barry Manilow hit "Copa Cabana." Mark called it "Star Wars Cantina," which like his Guns 'n Moses parodies, uses sould clips from the George Lucas film. Also because of the use of sound clips, he could not release the song commercially. That Star Wars tribute is one of the most remembered classics under his own name. It even got airplay on commercial radio stations such as Star in San Diego. His "Cantina" song got released on the "Dr. Demento Basement Tapes 6" for Demento Society Members in 1998.

In 1998, Mark released some more Star Wars released material, which wound up on his CD "Naboo Road" released in 1999. The first of the comedy pieces, "Johnny Carson at the Cantina," got played in Dr. Demento in 1998. In 1999, in time for "The Phantom Menace" the first episode of the Star Wars first trilogy, Mark released "The Phantom Medley," an original song recapping the three Star Wars movies in the second trilogy.

His career path changed when he decided to become a cover lounge singer under the name "Richard Cheese" in 2000, put together a band called "Lounge Against the Machine", and release CDs full of swankified covers of today's teen pop songs.