Morgan, Rio (from Mission Mini-Comics)and members of the band at Morgan's grandma's trailer park in Tigard, OR.
Zane Groshelle: guitar and vocals
Tyson Vogel: bass and vocals
Angus Haller: drums
The tape was recorded in Joe Demaree's garage on 7th Street in San Jose in May 2002, in preparation for CRIMENY/FUCK YEA! AVOCADO/LOS RABBIS tour. Undeniably influenced by HICKEY and some of the darker old mission sounds ala the likes of LOST GOAT, FAGGZ, TOWEL, etc. The bulk of their shows were at houses, on the street, or east bay warehouses now long lost to the blight of sweeping ass-helmet gentrification.
Assorted trivia: Zane also played in FUCK YEA! AVOCADO. Soon after CRIMENY's demise, he moved to Santa Cruz and started a great two piece band called BROWN RECLUSE, whom I'm pretty sure never recorded anything. Tyson went on to tour the world with TWO GALLANTS (which he's still doing), as well as assorted side projects (PEOPLEPEOPLE is one with Antonio and Andrew from OVENS/TRAINWRECK RIDERS)-- He also does a solo project called DEVOTIONALS. Angus was the original drummer of THE JOCKS (my first band; this may be useless information-- he only played our first two shows), and went on to play all sorts of bizarre music, but often was just known to 'jam out' with random garage lurkers throughout the Outer Mission and Bernal. I hope he's still playing music, cause he's a great drummer and a solid weirdo.
4 comments:
Awesome! I played the hell out of this tape back in 2002.
i loved this band!
brown recluse put out a couple of recordings, if i remember correctly. (and by "put out," i mean burned cdr's and gave them away at shows) one was more of a noisy rock thing, and one was just acoustic guitar and violin, and was all melancholy and beautiful and shit. i could be wrong, my memories of the early 00s are a big jumble.
Angus is my co-WORKER!!! TRUE STORY!!! hahahahaha those jncos!!! this photo is going up at work!!!
Tyson Vogel currently plays drums and other sonic assortments with SF band, Future Twin. Antonio Roman-Alcalá (PEOPLEPEOPLE) also played drums in Future Twin, and remains an integral component of the band's output.
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