(Thanks for the pic Kyle Green!)
Here they come....walkin' down the street...
Named after the creepy-crawly 'Thingmaker' Mold Pak toys from the 60's, Los Creeple Peeple played only one kind of music: loud & loose 60's garage-punk.
The young lads had alot of talent. Russell and Christof were previously in the great Bay-area band, The Horseless Headmen, and Matt had come from The Organ Grynders out of Richmond, Va. All together, Los Creeple Peeple had a wild authentic look and live sound, but were unable to reach their full potential, as the band snuffed out quickly after only playing for about a year (1987-1988). Leaving only various photos and one hard-to-find 'demo' cassette tape and a few miscellaneous live tapes a few people have managed to keep. But here! Digitized off my copy of the "demo-tape" - recorded live in their rehearsal space, in all their mop-topped, beatle-booted, raucous glory:
5 Songs: Forgotten and unheard for 26 years...
Los Creeple Peeple
- Russell Quan - Drums
- Trent Ruane - Keyboards
- Christof Certik - Guitar
- Matt Brown - Lead Vocals, harp, tambourine
- Jules Sabenorio - Bass
Los Creeple Peeple only played in the Bay Area - Berkeley and San Francisco. (*But there was that one crazy mod show in San Jose!)They were good pals with and played many shows with The Birminghams, which featured a young Bart Davenport (The Loved Ones) and future CAKE guitarist, Xan. They played what you would expect - covers of their obscure 60's punk songs of course! They did manage to knock out 2-3 originals tunes. Two are featured here.
7 comments:
Nice spot over hear~!
I will Def visit!
Linked up!!! Cheers!
cool! I'm always interested in what Russell & Trent were doing before they were in The Phantom Surfers! Never heard before of Los Creeple Peeple! Thanks a lot!
Regards
RYP
ps.: some Phantom Surfers albums posted on my blog "TwilightZone", if you're interested.
Christof was already playing Hawkwind covers with me in Dope y this time! He was a part-time charmkin by then.
The Horseless Headmen demo is the shit. Bart Davenport, Jim Lange's son, Russell singin'
wow wow and wow again !
jeff just sent me the link.. as in late '89 I made a trip in the us to see what what left of the charmkin scene, ending up living in closets and sleeping in many floors around the west coast and for a looong time in the grove valley in s.f. at christoff/erik/jeff house i have a vivid memory of The Creeple peeple as they were some sort of a legend and stories were told to me during the sleepless nights and while chatting on the sofas I'm sure I heard the demo back then but I'm glad I saw these great pics and can hear these mp3 things.. ciao ciao, e/hank
GREEEEAAAATTT FUUNNNY !!! GOOD TIMES!!!!! I HAVE PIX FROM THERE REUNION SHOW AT THE 6TH ST RENDEVOUIS IN S.F!!!! GOOD TIMES LUV YOU RUSTY !!!! XO
too cool
wylde wylde wylde!!!
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