Artist description Random Delivery was a 4-piece new school punk band from Northville, MI.

Music Style Punk, Melodic Punk

Musical Influences Millencolin, ALL, Descedents, Strung Out, NOFX

Similar Artists The Desktop Heroes, Millencolin, All, Descendents, Strung Out, NOFX

Artist History Random Delivery began in 1999, originally dubbed Elixir. The band began when we were in 8th grade. Bill Crawford came up to Ehren Moler and I in band class and asked us to start a punk band with him. Bill was to sing, Ehren was to play guitar, and I was to play the drums. We soon added Bryan Moffatt to play bass guitar and Steve Thurber was our manager. The revolutionary 1st practice was in Bill's garage. We didn't even have a song or anything. The next practice was in my garage. We had one song Bill wrote, "The World is Coming to an End". Ehren didn't want to play it, and Bryan didn't even have his bass yet, so what he did the whole practice was crush soda cans over his forehead. Ehren soon left the band because he didn't like 3-chord punk music and wanted to play more Jimi Hendrix-style classic rock. Bill was forced to take up guitar. A few practices later, [Stalefish] made their 1st recording. I called the song "Initiation". Bill played guitar out of my Mom's college stereo, because he didn't have a working amp. We got Bryan to shut up during the recording because he couldn't play anything. We recorded the song, as well as the rest of the practice session on a small mono tape recorder. (I still have the tape of the recording.) We soon we forced to change our name to [Stalefish], due to Elixir being a name already in use by some European techno band. So our slogan in the summer of 8th grade was "have a [Stalefish] summer". Byran eventually left the band and it was just Bill and I in search of a bass player. The next year, in 9th grade, Bill and I found Steve Taepke in English class and asked him to practice with us. We had two practices with him. (One practice he wasn't there.) We recorded the "Punk Rock Chocolates Theme Song" for our English project. The song was influnced from the Bush song "Machinehead". Taepke decided to go skiing instead of work on the project. Anyways, the next practice, we recorded a bundle of songs including an extended version of "The Punk Rock Chocolates Theme Song", "When I Come Around" by Green Day, "Under Lock and Key" by MxPx, "Ska Party", "Timothy", and the now-famous "Juda the God". Over time, we decided Taepke wasn't very good at the bass and was always talking about his one practice with us, so we let him leave, or kicked him out (without him knowing of course). Then, one day at lunch Bill said he found a new bass player, Joe Wilson. I questioned his suggestion but we went ahead and invited Joe to play with us. We had a few practices with him and he wanted to play Social Distortion while we wanted to play Blink-182, so he quit because we weren't "punk" enough. We still use his equipment to this day. :-) Thanks Joe. It was then just Bill and I for a while, but one day Bill came up to me claiming that Colin Floyd and Cedric Tai wanted to start a pop-punk band with him. I asked "Are you sure?", knowing that Colin and Cedric like more NoFX style punk. So in November of 2000, we finally got all together in my basement. Cedric used Joe Wilson's bass at the time. We recorded two songs on the revolutionary "first practice", "Cliff Diver (Croc Files)" and "A Stereotype Hardcore Band". Both songs were sort of a joke, but you can download them, so do it and vote for your favorite. Our second practice was probably one of our best practices, as we wrote "Right and Choice". We got it sounding very good, considering Colin and Bill wrote that at lunch before the practice. We've changed the lyrics of the song, but, its still essentially the same. Later on, we added Jen Larson as a second guitarist. We recorded "Globe" with her (and Dan Collins on Cedric's bass). It is still probably our most mature sounding song. Then, one day Bill decided that he hated Jen, for reasons he won't tell us, so he kicked her out. We remained a four piece since then. Over time, we kicked Cedric out (I think he had a hard time accepting it), because he never attended practices, never talked to us, and only wanted to play his one song, "I Suck". So, 2 days before the first show at Rebecca's, we called up Bob from Youth Group and asked him to play with us. Within 10 minutes he had written bass lines to all our songs! They sounded great too. He is much better than Cedric, as Cedric is just beginning to learn how to play. In 2001 Random Delivery disbanded and former members began The Desktop Heroes. Be sure to check the out on mp3.com/dth

Group Members Bill Crawford - Guitar, Vocals Colin Floyd - Vocals, Guitar Cedric Tai - Bass Jim Margle - Drums

Instruments Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums

Location Northville, MI - USA

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