Spindrift (band)

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Spindrift

Background information
Origin	Delaware/California/United States
Genre(s)	Psychedelic rock
Years active	1994–present
Label(s)	Vacancy Records
Associated acts	Brian Jonestown Massacre The Warlocks Crooked Cowboy
Website	Spindrift official website
Members
Kirpatrick Thomas Dave Koenig Henry Evans Julie Patterson Marcos Diableros Jason “Plucky” Anchondo Dan Allaire

Spindrift is a psychedelic rock band created by singer/songwriter/composer/producer/movie star Kirpatrick Thomas. Founded in 1992, the band originated in Newark, Delaware along with such other local bands of the period including Zen Guerilla and Smashing Orange. Heavily influenced by The Doors, My Bloody Valentine, and Chrome, Spindrift's early stages were experimental and differed greatly from their present sound.

Six years later band members Kirpatrick Thomas, Joe Baluta and Zachary Hansen re-located to Los Angeles. The band re-formed to include Bobby Bones of Psychic TV, Dave Koenig, Frankie "Teardrop" Emerson and Rob Campanella of The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Jason “Plucky” Anchondo of The Warlocks. Inspired by their new locale, the band began a new stylistic approach evoking the spirit of the Old West as mythologized by Western Cinema, Spaghetti Westerns in particular.

In 2004, Kirpatrick Thomas along with filmmaker Mike Bruce began production on the independent feature film The Legend Of God’s Gun^[1], inspired by the same classic Western Films that influenced their music, most often those directed by Sergio Leone and scored by Ennio Morricone^[2]^[3].

[edit] Soundtrack and Television

In 2008, Spindrift contributed to the soundtrack of the feature film Hell Ride produced by Quentin Tarantino^[4]^[5]^[6].

The Legend Of God’s Gun was inspired by the Spindrift's 2004 album of the same name which was released four years prior to the making of the film^[7]. The soundtrack features work from that album as well as tracks by Gram Rabbit and Mike Bruce's own band the Low-flying Owls.