Influential rock mob Flipper have today announced a 40 year anniversary tour. Founder members Steve DePace (drums) and Ted Falconi (guitar), will be joined by David Yow (Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard) on vocals and Mike Watt ( The Minutemen, Firehose). Flipper’s performances are famed for their unpredictable nature, centered around repetitive bass lines, ultra noisy and atonal guitar playing by Falconi with DePace’s tight drumming keeping the tunes together. In 1979 Flipper debuted on the SF Underground 7” comp with the track “Earthworm”. Followed by their first single “Love Canal / Ha Ha Ha” for Subterranean Records (as SF Underground became known). The single “Sexbomb / Brainwash” was released in 1981, causing excitement within the underground punk scene of th...
