When I was seventeen, I heard Flipper's "Ha Ha Ha" on a late-night radio show when I should have been sleeping and was instantly intrigued/converted by Bruce Loose's demented vocals. I bought Generic and entered a life of delinquency shortly thereafter.
I went to see Flipper perform to a packed audience at Amoeba Records (SF) in February and they sounded great. They have tapped Krist Novoselic to tour with them and according to this News Tribune article the guys have finished recording a batch of new material. Seeing as their first album, Generic (one of my favorite punk albums) has been long out-of-print, it is exciting to hear that "Flipper is negotiating with several labels to release the new discs and reissue old albums in time for its 30th anniversary."
These "pioneers of punk", along with an impressive cadre of legendary bands that formed the bedrock of San Francisco punk in the late 1970's--The Avengers, The Mutants and Negative Trend--will be playing The Fillmore on Saturday, July 26 at 8:00 p.m. The event will be emcee'd by Neil Hamburger. Tickets are $25.
Flipper - Ha Ha Ha (American Hardcore: The History Of American Punk Rock 1980-1986, 2006)
Flipper - Sex Bomb (Generic, 1982)
The Avengers - The End of the World (Died for Your Sins, 1999)
Negative Trend - Black and Red (Negative Trend EP, 2006)
The Mutants - Furniture (Fun Terminal CD, 2002)
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