"As the blitzing tempo and mosh pit violence of hardcore swept the US in the early-80s, San Francisco punks Flipper whose frontman, Bruce Loose, died this weekend of a heart attack assumed a provocative stance, choosing sarcastic nihilism over dumb machismo and swapping high-velocity thrash for menacing, slow-as-sludge post-punk jams. In an era of 7in singles packed with 30-second screeds, Flipper would draw their tunes out to 20-or-more minutes of grind, fielding spiteful comparisons to hated hippies the Grateful Dead as bassist and founder Will Shatter warned audiences, the more you heckle us, the longer this song gets."
"Born Bruce Calderwood, in the late 70s Loose cashed in a life insurance policy his mother bought for him and spent the money on a bass guitar and amplifier. He soon joined an embryonic version of Flipper in 1979, assuming the nom-du-punk Bruce Lose (which he later switched for Bruce Loose, because he wanted to be less negative) and sharing bass and vocal duties with Shatter."
San Francisco punk band Flipper, fronted by Bruce Loose (born Bruce Calderwood), pioneered a slow, heavy post-punk sound in the early 1980s that contrasted with hardcore's fast tempo and mosh culture. Loose financed his first bass by cashing a life insurance policy and adopted the stage name Bruce Lose before changing it to Bruce Loose. He shared bass and vocal duties with founder Will Shatter while Ted Falconi supplied abrasive guitar and Steve DePace drove the drums. Flipper stretched songs into lengthy, grinding jams, provoked audiences deliberately, and paired misanthropic themes with lyrical complexity and dark humor.
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