Talk:Flipper (band)
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Hey Ted, I wanted to add which vocals were Will's and which were Bruce's, but never saw them credited. What's a song from each? Auto movil 05:52, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi, longtime Flipper fan Bill here. Bruce sang: 1) Ha Ha Ha 2) The Lights The Sound The Rhythm The Noise
Will sang: 1) Life 2) Sex Bomb
BTW, Flipper is playing along with the Mutants, the Avengers and the Dead Kennedys (without Jello Biafra) at the Fab Mab reunion show at the Fillmore in San Francisco on April 8, 2006. Flipper will consist of the three surviving original members plus Bruno De Smartass on bass. I believe Flipper also played a show in Los Angeles sometime after the CBGB shows.
Post-show analysis: they were awesome, but Bruno can't sing, sorry...
On the crediting of vocals: look on the LPs! Generic has an insert with all credits; on Gone Fishin' they're on the printed innersleeve; on Public Flipper Ltd. they're on an insert; on Sex Bomb Baby they're on the back cover.
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[edit] Pet Rock
Could someone add in the main article that they invented the Pet Rock genre for themselves? Im not |_337 enough to edit a wiki article. -Sean
[edit] Moby
The Moby-as-temporary-vocalist rumor has long been discredited by the surviving members of Flipper. It seems he was one of many audience members onstage screaming along with Bruce.
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- Moby did get up and play bass on Sex Bomb with the band at an after-party for the American Hardcore movie in NYC in 2006. They had to throw him offstage to stop him playing. Wwwhatsup 00:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] More stupid rumors
No, Bruce did not steal the tapes from the Subterranean warehouse, or anywhere else. This rumor seems to be a conflation of 2 separate unrelated incidents (er, except for the drugs...). Rubin said originally that he was interested in signing the band for a new recording and licensing the Subterranean albums for CD reissue, but the contract he presented to the band at a meeting in Los Angeles gave him exclusive ownership of them, plus publishing rights for their songs. It's unclear if the band had actually read it before signing. In any case, the band got $20,000 and got to record one new album, Rubin got the rights to the 4 released albums, plus a completed but still unreleased 5th album (recorded at the same time as Gone Fishin' and completed after Will's death) which he's still sitting on. After a brutal, exhausting and very expensive legal battle, Subterranean walked away with the rights to continue to press the LPs, but only for US domestic distribution.
As far as I know the Album is just a set of demos for Gone Fishin' recorded in 1982 along with some unreleased songs recorded during the singles and Generic sessions including The Wheel. I've got the 1982 demos that they plan on releasing, the tracks are- Sacrfice, In Your Arms, Survivors of the Plague, In Life My Friends, One By One, Now is the Time, On and On, In the Garden, First the Heart, I Want to Talk, Flipper Blues, Get Away, Talk's Cheap, The Light the Sound the Rythem the Noise, and Kali. It's also possible that they where referring to Will's A3I record, Ruins of America.
[edit] Flipper's predecessor bands
The article cited SSD as a band that contributed ex-members to Flipper, which is definitely inaccurate. I know there was a punk band from SF in the late 70s called SSI. Is that what was intended? Justin Bailey 20:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
According to the insert in my copy of Negative Trend's "We Don't Play, We Riot" ep, Ted came from a band called SST.
The "Heart Monitor" worn by Bruce Loose is actually an electronic pain blocking unit known as a TENS(see Wikipedia entry). This type of device is sometimes used by people who suffer chronic pain resulting from nerve damage (as Bruce does) and other conditions.
[edit] Krist Novoselic
11/9/06 info from email from Steve: "We are off to UK and Iriland in Dec with Krist Novoselic on bass. We are doing a bunck of dates with The Melvins as well as a festival date with Iggy and Sonic Youth."
[edit] Flipper as "anti-punk?"
If memory serves me well, I do recall reading articles back in the day in which the band's slow paced style was labeled "anti-punk" and were not actually considered "hardcore" Did the band apply this label, the listeners or both? Smiloid 08:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
