Artist description We've been called many things, including para-pop, and Apocalyptic Bubblegum

Music Style Fancy but not combed

Musical Influences XTC, Beatles, old Fleetwood Mac, Bloodwin Pig, Jethro Tull, John Cage, Don Ho, Huun Huur Tu

Similar Artists ourselves

Artist History It began in 1995 as flapping, Flapping, FLAPPING, with guitarists-singers Rob Taylor and Joe Woodard, bassist-singer Bruce Winter, and drummer-non-singer Tom Lackner. Their debut CD, TEX, came out in '95. It came to be a band with a will to make good, raucous, but not entirely non-brainy noise. Taylor left, the bandname was streamlined to flapping, Flapping, and Glen (Toad the Wet Sprocket) Phillips joined for several months, producing the second album, Montgomery Street. The rest is history still unmade, like a bed lying in wait.

Group Members Bruce Winter, Joe Woodard, Todd Capps, and Tom Lackner, all of whom have found Santa Barbara to be a swell place to hang one's hat and instrument.

Instruments guitar(s), keyboards, bass, drums, other assorted sound-producing objects

Albums TEX (1995), Montgomery Street (1996), the next one (?)

Press Reviews "Montgomery Street is the new CD form the collective soul of the mysteriously monikered flapping, Flapping. It is an awesome collection of fat tracks that span the globe of musical interests. Joe Woodard shows up with an array of tone and approach on the guitar and some beautifully imagined lyrics. Glen Phillips vocally shows why he gets paid more than me in this world by turning out some w-w-wicked vocal acrobatics—is that Patti Labelle? Bruce Winter rounds out some beautiful harmony, and Tom Lackner again pulls an array of tones out of the drums. Check it out, get funky, get pensive, get smiley…" --Mark Fahey, Santa Barbara Independent Top Cuts: Sort This Out, Lazy Susan, Doubly Doubting Thomas, A Burning House …"Calling Matt" is an Andy Partridge type of pop song, and "Lazy Susan" tears a page out of the Sgt. Pepper era Beatles songbook… "Doubly Doubting Thomas", a heavy pop song ala Toad, and then another eerie age Beatles pop on "The Frogs Are Alive". Next is the gem of the disc, "Sort This Out", a quirky and disjointed pop song that will have you singing along by the second listen. "Back To The Station" turns up the speed a little with a heavier rock/pop sound, then "Without" closes the disc by dropping it back down with another with an eerie, mellow sound…Worth investigating if you're a modern pop, late era Beatles, or even mid-career XTC fan." --Scott Pazur, CDreviews "At their best, which is fortunately much of the time, this quartet makes really thoughtful guitar rock blending XTC, Toad the Wet Sprocket and some of those guit-pop bands form the Athens, Georgia heyday of yesterday. Try, for instance, "Doubly Doubting Thomas..." --Seth Berner, Portland, ME "flapping, Flapping is (among other things) a side project for Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips. If you’re into Toad, "Montgomery Street" would be a good investment. Some songs, such as "Doubly Doubting Thomas" reek of classic Wet Sprocket, but this album’s big strength lies in the fact that with two other Flapping band members (besides Phillips) contributing material, no one song sounds quite like another (and the disc as a whole doesn’t seem a Toad knock-off). Furthermore, two of Phillip’s offerings, "Positively Double Negative" (alternative title, "Toad meets Funkadelic"?) and "Eye Wannabe Likes Lye" (and the Family Stone maybe?), reveal a fascinatingly funky side to the singer. Other nice tracks include the brit-pop tinged "Lazy Susan" and "The Frogs are Alive" and the just-plain-fun "Calling Matt" and "My Favorite Guitar (fruit)". --nw, Splendid e-zine "...in their capable hands, flapping is not sloppy. It's four creative people jamming on top of a solid base of musical talent and inventive, push-the-envelope songwriting. The band is indulgent, but these indiscretions are always forgivable...the album warrants attention. It embodies the pop experimentalism and hooks of Sgt. Pepper with an ironic approach of anti-pop pop performers like Pavement and Liz Phair, and has layers that open up with repeated listening...What makes this disc truly worth spinning...is its reigning sense of musical intelligence and maturity of lyric, qualities which are laid nicely in a nest of cheeky good humor and backed with truly kick-ass rock instrumentation." --Russ Spencer, Santa Barbara Independent

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Location Santa Barbara, CA - USA

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