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SF PUNK -- POST PUNK -- SLUDGE -- NOISE -- HEAVY PUNK -- "FLIPPER STILL RULES, OKAY?"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a mega photo-dump of SF punk rock/ noise/ sludge/ post-punk band, FLIPPER, playing a gig somewhere in the Bay Area, CA (more than likely), c. 1981. 📸: "Toyranch" (via Flickr).

THE QUIETUS: "Going back to the late 1970s and early 1980s, I’ve long held the thought that rather than “just” being a punk band, FLIPPER offered up a strange new strain of punk psychedelia. You emanated it despite not being traditionally psychedelic."

STEVE DEPACE (drummer): "I agree with you. I would say that there’s elements of various different things and styles within FLIPPER, which ultimately leads to that. It’s been said that we’re part art performance, part art rock, noise rock, art noise, punk rock, grunge – all of those things. But we just kind of are what we are. It may change a bit here and there with different people in the band and different incarnations, but there’s a basic element that remains the same. We tend to stand out, you know?"

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/toyranch/2902037246 (all found on Flickr & Flickriver).

MANY ICE COLD BEERS WERE HAD THAT NIGHT -- AND THE UNHOLY NOISE WAS GLORIOUS.

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on assorted shots of San Francisco-based punk rock/noise punk/post-punk/anti-hardcore band, FLIPPER, reportedly from a gig either somewhere in Dallas or Houston?, Texas, USA, c. 1981. 📸: unknown/undisclosed.

Source: www.pixnoy.com/post/6833731637182251304154.

"SOMETIMES I JUST WANT AN ICE COLD BEER..."

PIC INFO: Enjoy an ice cold Budweiser today on this "Thirsty Thursday" -- Spotlight on 3/4 San Francisco, CA-based noise punk/anti-hardcore band, FLIPPER (Bruce Loose, Steve DePace, & Ted Falconi), performing live c. 1981-'82.

Source: www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1206931648110967.

STILL THE ONLY FIGURE IN SF/'80s HARDCORE TO HAVE SERVED IN THE 'NAM.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on assorted shots of Vietnam War vet, co-founder, and six-string noise-monger of SF hardcore/noise/ punk rock band FLIPPER, playing a gig somewhere in the Bay Area, c. 1981. 📸: "Toyranch." Sax player unknown.

MINI-OVERVIEW: "Looking back, Falconi says there's plenty of factors in his life that influenced his work with FLIPPER, but there’s one that stands out above all: the Vietnam War.

“If I hadn’t gone to Vietnam, I probably wouldn’t have started FLIPPER,” Falconi says.

Falconi spent two years in Vietnam, from '67 to '69, and he came home with a new determination to live by his own rules. The army showed him how to focus on his goals and work to reach them.

After Falconi got out of the Army, he moved to San Francisco. It was 1970, and for the next decade, Falconi would dedicate his life to art -- mostly sculpture. He earned an MFA in art from UC Berkeley and almost completed a second master's degree in music from Mills College, where he experimented with early synthesizers and other noise-making instruments.

But it was John Gullak, guitarist for THE MUTANTS, who introduced Falconi to the electric guitar. The two were hanging out at Joe "Target" Rees's studios in San Francisco, where THE MUTANTS were being filmed, and Gullak let Falconi play around with his guitar and amp.

"I never had that much loudness,” Falconi said. “So a week later, I had a guitar and amplifier, and I was starting a band.""

-- KQED, "Meet FLIPPER's Ted Falconi, Vietnam Vet and Punk Rock Legend," by Kevin L. Jones, published November 10, 2017

Sources: Lifted these from my Facebook page (in turn lifted from Hiveminer), & www.kqed.org/arts/13814497/ted-falconi-vietnam-vet.

FREE SHOW IN BERKELEY, CA -- ANOTHER SUPERB SF PUNK PRODUCTION.

NOTE: Last one for the late, great Will Shatter, who exited this mortal plane on this day 36 years ago. Another legend lost.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on SF noise/punk rock band FLIPPER, pwrforming live at [Lower] Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, CA, noon time, on January 9, 1981.

"Drifting down the love canal, We seem strange, Our bodies are breaking down, We are breeding, Our children look like monsters, We are breeding, Not to children but to monsters."

-- "Love Canal" (1981) by FLIPPER

Sources: Hiveminer & www.flickr.com/photos/33135085@N02/22793264361.

STAY OFF THE SHIT, KIDS -- IN MEMORIAM -- REST IN NOISE -- ANOTHER LEGEND LOST.

BIRTH NAME: Russell Wilkinson (June 10, 1956 -- December 9, 1987), a.k.a., "Will Shatter," of SF noise-punk merchants, FLIPPER

CAUSE OF DEATH: Accidental heroin overdose (and another reason why smack will forever suck).

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the late, great Will Shatter, bassist/vocalist for SF hardcore/noise/punk rock band FLIPPER, playing a gig in 1981, Bay Area, CA (more than likely). 📸: "Toyranch" (via Flickr).

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/toyranch/2902037246 (all found on Flickr).