The drummer hit the singer/guitarist while he was out for a jog. The singers older brother decided that he was going to beat the crap out of this drummer for putting his little brother in the hospital (a Boston thing). When he got to his house he heard a band playing in the basement. He said that he wouldn't kick his ass if they let his little brother sing with them one night once he got out of the hospital. Hence Mappari was born, a word that means, "a place where sound never dies."