Flipper with David Yow - Almost Live from Joyful Noise

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Recorded and filmed on the rooftop of Joyful Noise in Fountain Square, Indianapolis on June 26, 2019
Recorded by Alex Kercheval
Mixed and mastered by Alex Kercheval at Postal Recording
Filmed, edited and directed by Adam Harding
Additional camera by Tracy Redman, Myles Gause, and Allison Durst
Title animation by Marina Tadic
Stephen DePace - drums
Ted Falconi - guitar
Rachel Thoele - bass
David Yow - vocals
Flipper was formed by Ted Falconi and Stephen DePace (along with Will Shatter and Ricky Williams) in San Francisco, 1979. Their first single “Love Canal” b/w “Ha Ha Ha” released in 1980 (followed by “Sex Bomb” b/w “Brainwash” the following year) was a huge influence on a young punk rocker from Austin named David Yow from the band Toxic Shock, and later Scratch Acid (with Steve Anderson, David Wm. Sims, Brett Bradford and Rey Washam) formed in 1982.
I still remember like it was yesterday (it was 2015) when David excitedly shared with me the news that Flipper had invited him to join them on vocals for an upcoming tour of Italy. A few days earlier David had taken me to see Chrome at the Echoplex in Echo Park, Los Angeles where he was to perform guest vocals on “TV As Eyes”, and it was at this show that Stephen DePace decided to ask David to sing with Flipper. I knew very well that feeling of honour mixed with flattery mixed with astonishment mixed with elation, because I felt exactly the same way when David agreed to sing some songs with my singing group (Dumb Numbers) that same year. After their brief Italian tour, Flipper played a handful of shows with David on US soil and I was lucky enough to see them at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. I was very happy to hear that David would be joining Flipper again for a few more shows in 2019, and when he told me they’d be touring the Midwest, including a stop in Indianapolis, I immediately started hatching plans for an Almost Live session with Stephen. I felt it was important to document the 40th anniversary of Flipper as a band and this particular line-up with David on vocals.
This performance was also the very last Almost Live session to be filmed and recorded at our office in Fountain Square, so we decided to schlep all the gear up the narrow staircase and onto the blistering hot rooftop, grab a few cases of beer, and invite a few friends over and turn it into a party. I had originally pitched the idea to the band of getting some cops (or friends of ours dressed as bobbies or blue meanies) to shut down the performance as a homage to the Beatles final performance on the Apple Corps rooftop in 1969 (and there was a very real chance of this happening anyway, as the local cop shop is on the same block as the old JNR office). This didn’t eventuate, but David still gave a nod to the Beatles at the end.
I’d like to thank Flipper on behalf of the label and ourselves, and you most definitely passed the audition.
-Adam Harding
Project manager & video director, Joyful Noise Recordings

[@michaelyuscavage5179]

If every band in the world accepted David Yow as their lead singer, world peace would become a thing.

[@no-eb1yc]

Hes the perfect front man besides Bruce.✌

[@orb2150tx]

I guess his ego is pretty peaceful if you're only paying attention to it 😐

[@beedekis4501]

Truer words have never been typed

[@ELRaskonino]

This is true, and why it will never happen.

[@josephvonbulow1164]

🎉😅😅😅

[@angryeel2864]

This fucking rules. No one plays like Ted. That guitar sound is calculated organized chaos. What a great video too. Sound is perfect. Black and white footage is ideal. Sky is magical. Goddamn what a great find this is, even though I hate KZbin and the soul sucking, big brother internet , it's awesome regardless. Yow is great as the singer. Never thought I'd see the day. They were incredible in Brooklyn a few weeks back. Best show of the year.

[@diggerthegroundhog8799]

This is absolutely great but David Yow could use some tuning. He is no Bruce Loose but he is cool.

[@buschovski1]

I was just thinking...last night about that. As you said calculated and organized. Its very strange. i could not do it by ear. Hed have to show me how he does it. Ive played guitar for 30 years and know how to play all kinda of things except for this. Im not sure what hes doing, but i think he purposely detunes his high E. Its always like that. and the rest of the strings are in tune. i have no clue. Its like, Why can he tune all the rest of them and not that one. its gotta be on purpose. thats my idea on it. But Anyway, these guys were somethin else really.

[@sydbarrett5]

Sounds like a tank barreling over the landscape.

[@skriptico]

you're 500% in the right fratm. i dont know how i missed this 4 years ago :'(

[@shake544]

i love the filming quality, especially the fact that the sky isn't overexposed and you see the clouds

[@SaumBodhi]

So true, nice touch

[@emmahaggerty4950]

Brilliantly executed racket! Takes me back to happy daze lovin' David Yow's sweat running down my happy teenage face at a Jesus Lizard gig in a tent ...Great times! 🍻😁🥰

[@johnstockman2956]

Mr. Yow is so righteously cool. Ya heard it first here. Yow! Suh!

[@dovic86]

the John Lennon quote at the end was spot on

[@christianmeza4529]

This sounds great

[@1000KAOS]

a mis 40 años, me di cuenta que david yow es mi interprete favorito , saludos de Chile ♥️🇨🇱🤟🔥

[@SLAVECO3]

Everyone's killed themselves, gave up, od'd or conformed. Not here. Respect on the highest levels.

[@no-eb1yc]

Damn this is friggin awesome, Ted's tearing it up on that guitar. Steve boom boom DePace is spot on.bass and vocals....killer video!

[@nicholaseast3728]

They must have recorded more tracks than this?! So good - the mixing is phenomenal

[@SaumBodhi]

Right. Encore!

[@vimes3702]

That was fucking amazing. I still own the Love Canal 45.

[@JohnnyConscious]

Well, that's an fucking great thing ♥

[@redline2115]

They were great in Chicago. Go see them.

[@LaVoxPentation]

Outstanding

[@tomkat69pc]

david is the king of the homeless in "under the silver lake" ..

[@NobodyCaresALot]

No shit! That's awesome. Love that movie and just learning about the great Yow! Thanks bud!

[@gregorioalmapiscis]

GREAT SOUND.....

[@popeskates358]

EPIC..... Thank you!

[@diggerthegroundhog8799]

How many people here actually know the story of Love Canal without Googling it? It was a real horror show. And on that note it is actually quite amazing that two original members of Flipper have made it this far. I often wonder what musicians like this do to survive? They're certainly not living on the royalties. David Yow is surely an acquired taste but he handles this just enough to make it good. the recording is 100 times better that the original and the video is stellar. Rock on Flipper. I hope one day to see you all live.

[@scarfade1635]

ive been there in the 90s for a high school field trip. it was a ghost town and terrified the shit outa me. hooker chemicals should be responsible for ever death and deformity in the area

[@patricksantos-io2op]

Love Canal was a Neighborhood built on top of a extremely chemical contaminated piece of land .....Hooker Chemical company.

[@emilyoshiro]

Wow

[@francovalec]

genial!

[@steverascoe7069]

Excellent!

[@user-cj3hd3yz3r]

Охренительно, конечно!

[@diggerthegroundhog8799]

One of the greatest video recordings ever. Who cares that Yow is way off key. He is electric. I'm sure Bruce Loose and Will Shatter are watching from wherever they are and are proud.

[@sonofeloah]

I miss them both. Great times back then.

[@skriptico]

lil late on this but...😮 Mr. Yow with Flipper? maaaaaan! ❤

[@bexdave1]

What a find !

[@sonofeloah]

I guess I am the old old school as I remember Flipper like it was yesterday with Will doing the "singing". I lived across the bay in berzerkeley, one of the old radicals, folks who lived there might remeber me (or not) as Rad Rob. Met Will at the Fab Mab. Damn, it was a long time ago yet does not seem like it was really that long ago at all. Good to see a proper replacement/improvment with David.

[@ian_occultist]

Yessss

[@MrPublicPain]

monsters... so wicked and basic and better than everyone else

[@jacquesmahlerbe8982]

Amazing !

[@michaelclyburn5858]

How drums should sound...

[@devildick1]

All children should put down guitar hero and learn from Ted Falconi..... #facts

[@user-uq7lm4vf2j]

respect!!!

[@ouicommunicate]

This is amazing

[@markulyssestraeger]

woof!

[@donutvortex222]

❤️❤️❤️

[@trentbolte8311]

BLOODY AWESOME!

[@werdna3891]

what fuzz pedal is the bass using? Its amazing and would love to know if its a one of a kind, or a beast that is affordable. Thanks in advance!!!and

[@trentbolte8311]

Great Beatles quote at the end :)

[@Godzillafan1980]

This guy is PSYCHO it's fun stuff

[@pablou8892]

Gracias

[@ryanheard]

There's a baby there. That's a cool baby.

[@douglasd327]

Heard this song n damce mamy times before

[@fosterch11]

Only Yow could pull that off. Imagine Post Malone?

[@bexdave1]

I'd rather not

[@Jamesballsworth]

Dude. Yes. Fuck. Yes. Fuck.

[@lancelassetter6306]

bakbizMuyBueno¡

[@Tom-ub7ti]

who is the bass player?

[@eaglebauer944]

Rachel Thoele.

[@DaveAnchovies]

This should have been filmed in Niagara Falls,nY USA ! With Lois Gibbs being a proto Karen

[@suckinspongebobs]

666th like

[@diggerthegroundhog8799]

Phenomenol recording. If only David Yow could be tuned. He is cool though in a Gene Hackman kind of way.

[@bexdave1]

Lol can't be turned can't be controlled...perfect for flipper !

[@diggerthegroundhog8799]

Too bad Yow is off key otherwise this would be perfect.

[@uncooldispatch5438]

Gues u never heard the OG band? 🤪😜👻🤡🤓🤟