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flapping, Flapping returns with a new album after a 24 year hiatus.
Every time I would see Joe Woodard for the last decade or so he would say, “We got a new album in the works, can you do the photos?” or something similar. Always game for laying something out for the Flap I would eagerly accept and then not hear from Joe, like ever, until I would see him again and he would say, “We got a new album in the works, can you do the photos?”… this goes on and on until around a year or so ago and Joe finally writes me to say, “no, for real this time.”, and he wasn’t joking. For real this time.
There aren’t too many bands still around that I have such an exquisite tie too. Flapping, in it’s different iterations, and I have been sniffing around the same blocks for years. It was early show’s at the long-lost and well remembered Mermaid Cafe inside of Cominichi’s, then later listening to the mixes of the upcoming TEX album in Bruce’s Studio A behind my house on Montgomery Street on those eternally lingering summer days. Or so it seemed. True salad days for a kid like me. Witnessing the generational hand shake between these musicians was a great thing to watch, especially, right in my own backyard. I was lucky enough then to get a few photos included in that first CD layout with that killer cover by Kim Reierson, as I am lucky enough now, to get the artwork on their new album, 24 years later. I’m as happy as a clam to be a part of this lasting legacy known as flapping, Flapping.
I’m including some of the artwork of the album in the gallery below. Lot’s of curtains, huh. I’ll throw in a few earlier photos as well: that Cominichi show and some Studio A shenanigans, why not? On the player down below is track 10 from the album, Ruffriff, because I like my rock Riff! The orange link will get you to their bandcamp page and if you go to the Household Ink Records web site you can order a CD, go figure.
