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Flipper
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punk, noise rock, post-punk, hardcore punk, hardcore… see all
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 S.S.T. Band, Sleepers and Negative Trend, and continuing in often erratic fashion to this day.
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 and
Ha 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 and
Ha 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.
Videos
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Flipper "I Saw You Shine"
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Flipper - Falling
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flipper - Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
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Flipper - Get Away
Top Albums
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Shoutbox
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slunkie wrote:
no, we are for real, flipper is really an impressive nirvana side project.
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MermaidFTW wrote:
Yeah. Fuck that guy.
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Niktron wrote:
fuck nirvana
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In_bloom_ wrote:
There are great stiuped comments i see)) ahaha....thats fun))
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In_bloom_ wrote:
"best Nirvana side project band ever " ahahahahaaaaa!! Flipper was one of the favorite Kurt's band) but no his side projectlol)
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Lorup wrote:
Kurt Cobain was 12 when Flipper was formed so quite an impressive side project
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IanCurtis13 wrote:
They were around before Nirvana you fucking moron, do some research, they formed in 1979, Nirvana did not exist till years later...
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KrisDale86 wrote:
best Nirvana side project band ever
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IanCurtis13 wrote:
They arn't coming anywhere now! they cancelled their whole tour.
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SmoochyMoo wrote:
why flipper dont come to ireland :(
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aaronWHAT wrote:
WE'RE NOT CRAZY!!!!!! anyway, is krist still playin bass for em?
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TheOnlyRoc wrote:
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho ho ho ho he he he he he he he ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho ho ho ho he he he he he he he ah ha ha ha ah ha ha
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slunkie wrote:
No i do. i was also in nirvana. "[deleted-user]" knows what's up.
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Slunkie was too
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I was in Nirvana
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AlicenchainBush wrote:
Krist and Pat didn't even play for Hole. You really need to read up more on these bands, you obviously don't know what you're talking about
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slunkie wrote:
no hole is clearly a nirvana side project krist novoselic and pat smear were full time members of both bands.
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IanCurtis13 wrote:
FUCK NIRVANA, they weren't even good, Flipper still rules... ok?
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AlicenchainBush wrote:
Hole isn't a Nirvana side project you idiot -___-
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dvoodoo wrote:
novoselic is a clueless chump... and flipper are class A (as in A$$sholes) they deserve each other
Events
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Fun Fun Fun Fest 2008
Waterloo Park, Austin, United States
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Flipper
Sonar, Baltimore, United States
4 shouts
| 3 attendees
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15
Flipper
Knitting Factory, New York, United States
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| 5 attendees
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Recent Activity
- sm0th3rl0v3, caucazoid, level5dworc and 6 other people added Flipper to their libraries. 4 hours ago
- bierce added Flipper to the lineup of Melvins at The Garage. Friday morning
- bjornsaucey, lentilholocaust and ramones12345 added Flipper to their libraries. Thursday evening
- Lattata tagged Flipper with ‘punk’, ‘noise’, ‘hardcore’, ‘post-punk’, ‘noise rock’ and ‘hardcore punk’. Thursday afternoon
- barranquito, ssporkchop, unfamous13 and 31 other people added Flipper to their libraries. Thursday morning
- DavinciZz updated the French wiki page for Flipper. (diff) August 2008
- Ziplock74, looselip, brunoise and 3 other people added Flipper to their libraries. August 2008
- katiuska79 tagged Flipper with ‘punk’. August 2008
- 91alex added Flipper to the lineup of Flipper at Waterfront. August 2008
- waninko tagged Flipper with ‘post-punk’ and ‘hardcore punk’. August 2008
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