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San Francisco, United States (1979 – present)
Flipper is an influential punk rock band from San Francisco, USA, forming in 1979 from the ruins of punk bands Sleepers and Negative Trend, and continuing in often erratic fashion to this day. They are also associated with the post-punk and noise rock genres.
They made their first recordings available in late 1979 via the SF Underground 7” compilation series released via Steve Tupper’s newly-formed Subterranean Records. In 1981 a 7” followedLove Canal andHa Ha Ha and the original lineup made 2 full-length studio albums on Subterranean, 1982’s Generic and the 1984 followup Gone Fishin’.
Flipper’s music was very shambolic and noisy, and oft considered “slow” for a punk band of the time. In many early shows, the band had half the audience on stage with them singing backup vocals, and encouraged horn players to join them for their anthem,Sex Bomb — and the crowding on stage usually knocked the stringed instruments out of tune. Guitarist Ted Falconi installed spikes in the head of his guitar to help prevent this, but blaring, out-of-tune dissonance became part of the band’s signature sound.
Bassist/vocalist Will Shatter died in 1987 of a heroin overdose. The remaining members reformed for the 1993 album American Grafishy on Def American Recordings which re-issued Generic, and a compilation called Sex Bomb Baby on Rick Rubin and Henry Rollins’ Infinite Zero label. This relationship soured and the surviving Flipper members allegedly were duped out of their rights to their back catalog.
They made their first recordings available in late 1979 via the SF Underground 7” compilation series released via Steve Tupper’s newly-formed Subterranean Records. In 1981 a 7” followed
Love Canal andHa Ha Ha and the original lineup made 2 full-length studio albums on Subterranean, 1982’s Generic and the 1984 followup Gone Fishin’.
Flipper’s music was very shambolic and noisy, and oft considered “slow” for a punk band of the time. In many early shows, the band had half the audience on stage with them singing backup vocals, and encouraged horn players to join them for their anthem,
Sex Bomb — and the crowding on stage usually knocked the stringed instruments out of tune. Guitarist Ted Falconi installed spikes in the head of his guitar to help prevent this, but blaring, out-of-tune dissonance became part of the band’s signature sound.Bassist/vocalist Will Shatter died in 1987 of a heroin overdose. The remaining members reformed for the 1993 album American Grafishy on Def American Recordings which re-issued Generic, and a compilation called Sex Bomb Baby on Rick Rubin and Henry Rollins’ Infinite Zero label. This relationship soured and the surviving Flipper members allegedly were duped out of their rights to their back catalog.
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Sex Bomb Baby
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Gone Fishin'
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Fatnecker wrote:
I just booked tickets to see them at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham, I'm pretty fucking excited.
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astrophobos wrote:
Gone Fishin its fucking awesome!
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grayjay103 wrote:
the thing about flipper-- their songs are as melodically beautiful as Joy Division, but Flipper plays it so shitty-- it feels like they hate their instruments, and their audiences they played for, as I've gathered from listening to their live albums. I was born too late. Flipper is awesome.
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ColonyofMetal wrote:
Some guy masturbating near a bin at the back of a late night kebab shop.
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eliaswhatever wrote:
best band ever
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krossa5 wrote:
some dude fighting with some other dude in a resturant.
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shootmeadeer wrote:
some dude throwing his guitar down a flight of stairs.
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Atomizer_ wrote:
some dude yelling in a garage
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Funeral_Opolis wrote:
SEX BOMB MOMMA
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somemusicdude wrote:
tokyochorus, Kurt had a good taste in music.
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shootmeadeer wrote:
Probably because you like No Trend. And Beyonce.
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tokyochorus wrote:
why are all the bands last.fm is recommending to me influential to kurt cobain. i dont even listen to nirvana
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PerraSuicida wrote:
Such as punk and doom at the same time, I love them.
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sistershit wrote:
puta merda aposto que quem escreveu essa bio é português
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Creepcleaner wrote:
that's not being lucky
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jiveraptor wrote:
People martyrize him too much. The industry, as it does every generation, was taking a superficial shift (from poofy crap glam to "dark" and grungy). He got lucky enough to become its face, and if not him, someone else would.
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ExoM7 wrote:
whose kurt cobain
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AF-Halpert wrote:
This is badass haha.
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alainvegaman wrote:
New Flipper's album featuring Legazy gonna be the shit xD
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NINlife wrote:
SEX BOMB BABY YEAAAAAAAH
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Recent Activity
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RetardGrrrl95, modifiedbear and elviogallo added Flipper to their libraries. yesterday evening
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ewzrd added Flipper to the lineup of Karma To Burn at Dachstock (Reitschule). Friday afternoon
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ali_millar, silentbobandjay, chienandalusia and 1 other person added Flipper to their libraries. Thursday evening
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MathianSim tagged Flipper with ‘noise rock’. Thursday morning
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Tiger_style333 and shoscar added Flipper to their libraries. Wednesday morning
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soundofsilenced added Flipper to the lineup of Flipper at Petit Bain. Tuesday afternoon
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soundofsilenced added Flipper to the lineup of Flipper at L'Epicerie Moderne. Tuesday afternoon
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kurtka92, missmirandajane, modifiedbear and 2 other people added Flipper to their libraries. Tuesday afternoon
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yyamano added Flipper to the lineup of Flipper at The New Parish. Monday morning
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