{"id":483127,"date":"2019-03-07T14:40:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=804916"},"modified":"2019-03-07T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:40:22","slug":"flipper-plan-40th-anniversary-celebrations-with-guest-singer-david-yow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flipper-plan-40th-anniversary-celebrations-with-guest-singer-david-yow\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipper Plan 40th Anniversary Celebrations With Guest Singer David Yow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flipper, the noisy punk group that influenced Nirvana and Melvins, will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a run of North American dates this spring and summer. The lineup for the shows will feature founding members guitarist Ted Falconi and drummer Steve DePace with Jesus Lizard<\/a> frontman David Yow on the mic and Frightwig bassist Rachel Thoele. The group promises to invite more special guests to play with them on the trek.<\/p>\n

They will launch the tour on April 12th in Los Angeles and play intermittent dates through July 26th. For the Las Vegas date, they\u2019ll support Killing Joke at the Punk Rock Bowling Festival.<\/p>\n

Flipper formed from the ashes of Negative Trend, Sleepers and SST\/Rad Command in 1979. Their 1982 LP, Album Generic Flipper<\/em>, attracted a cult following and eventually ranked Number 26 on Rolling Stone\u2019s<\/em> list of the 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time<\/a>. Their slow, grinding riffs inspired Kurt Cobain that he made his own Flipper T-shirt, which he wore on a Saturday Night Live<\/em> appearance. (The design later came under scrutiny when Forever 21 tried selling a replica<\/a> of it only to pull it and later relist it.) They\u2019ve since issued three more studio albums (including Love<\/em>, which features Nirvana\u2019s Krist Novoselic on bass) and a handful of live albums.<\/p>\n

Since the beginning, the band played with a loose, heavy sound with swinging rhythms. They often punctuated these songs with ridiculous lyrics. Their best-known song, \u201cSex Bomb,\u201d simply repeats the line, \u201cShe\u2019s a sex bomb, baby, yeah,\u201d over and over again, to heavy, bassy riffs. They even made a punk song out of \u201cThe Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,\u201d which they featured on their Sex Bomb Baby<\/em> compilation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting away with doing what we like to do,\u201d Falconi told Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> in a 1985 feature. \u201cWe\u2019re rock\u2019s bad boys.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s classic lineup featured two bassist-vocalists, Will Shatter and Bruce Loose, but the former died in 1987. Loose continued with the band until complications from breaking his back in 1994 forced him to retire<\/a> in 2015. DePace subsequently asked Yow to join the band.<\/p>\n

Flipper Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 12 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater
April 13 \u2013 Long Beach, CA @ Alex\u2019s Bar
April 14 \u2013 San Diego, CA @ Casbah
May 24 \u2013 Los Vegas, NV @ Punk Rock Bowling
June 6 \u2013 Portland, OR @ Bossanova
June 7 \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ Astoria
June 8 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
June 27 \u2013 Indianapolis, IN @ Melody Inn
June 28 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ Reggie\u2019s
June 29 \u2013 St. Louis, MO @ Fu Bar
July 11 \u2013 San Jose, CA @ The Ritz
July 12 \u2013 Sacramento, CA @ Blue Lamp
July 13 \u2013 San Francisco, CA @ GAMH
July 26 \u2013 Ventura, CA @ Ventura Theatre<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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