After this, Dean left for Oberlin, OH to go to school and played in RTA. Later, he moved back to the Bay Area and played in the band DAVID COPPERFUCK. These days, he lives in NYC and runs the label True Panther Sounds, which put out the phenomenal BROKEN STRINGS LP and alot of other stuff that people may like if they're into...well, I will stop myself here...just click above....you're a human being and you can make your own decisions. Morgan and Jon Paul stuck around Portland for a little while and worked on songs that would soon become the first batch of stuff for their band TULSA. Then, they went back to Tulsa later and made that happen. These days, Morgan is living in the hills of North Carolina and playing drums in the ever-awesome DARK RIDES. He also plays in a band (with me!) called BLACK RAINBOW. Jon Paul is still a maniac on the drums (and otherwise), lives in either Brooklyn or Tulsa and plays in the experience known as HONKY HORN & BAD MOUTH.
STAMPEDE tried to play one last time at a generator show out at Ocean Beach in SF for Morgan's 21st birthday, but the cops came before a note could even be played.
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Updated 2013
Updated 2013
One last thing that has nothing to do with the music, really. They recorded this on a 4 track in the basement next to where Jon Paul slept every night. There was also a black widow's nest under the stairs. One night, a spider bit JP on his asshole and it swelled up to golf ball size. He had to go steal pants that were 3 sizes too big for him to wear while riding the bus home from Portland.
Thanks to Morgan for all the info and for being a tight friend all these years.
This tape is from the collection of Erick Lyle.
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Aw, this is when me and Jon Paul were best friends, and I convinced this girl to drive me to Texas to pick him up, and then drive us both to Portland so he could meet up with Morgan and Dean. When he left he took the bag with all our tapes in it and I had to listen to a David Dondero live tape the entire way home..
Best demo cover ever!
I couldn't stop laughing at that cover earlier. It's so good.
They also played a show in Oberlin, Ohio, in 2004. Or at least they made it as far as the poster! I tend to think the thing didn't happen at all: RTA-Two Gallants-Stampede!-P.C.Penis at an old car dealership.
The poster is as far as it got. JP and I were set to head up to Ohio, but my old station wagon got totaled, The $100 Taco got robbed, and JP went to jail all in the same week leading up to it, so we never made it up there. I definitely forgot all about that though-- it definitely was intended to happen.
has the download been removed? Is there any other way to get this album??
It's been re-uploaded. Download away.
aww, thanks a bunch. i love this website
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