Crack City Rockers
Punk / Pop / Down-tempo
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"They were."
PORTLAND, OREGON
United States
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| Member Since | 11/28/2004 | | Band Website | crackcityrockers.com | | Band Members | Kenneth Coleman- lead guitars, vocals
Eric S Gregory- vocals, rhythm guitar
Curt Schulz- drums
Matt Sherman- bass guitar
Wilson Johns- manager | | Influences | William Wyss
Gary Glitter
Roxy Music
Grateful Dead
Buzzcocks
Velvet Underground
Patti Smith Group
The Lovin' Spoonful
Bryan Ferry
The Blue Orchids
VOM
The Feelies
The Only Ones
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Human Switchboard
Mirrors
New York Dolls
Richard Meltzer
Big Star
Queen
The Perfect Disaster
The Mugwumps
Yoko Ono
Alex Chilton
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
Allen Ginsberg
Mamas and the Papas
Richard Hell
Homosexuals
Luna
Subway Sect/Vic Godard
Black Randy & the MetroSquad
Pere Ubu
Sly and the Family Stone
The Blasters
Steve Treatment
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Julian Cope
Pierre Macherey
Scottish Pop ca. 1983
The Red Crayola
Art & Language
Gladys Knight & the Pips
the Clash
The Deviants
John Wieners
Cornershop
Bob Weir
the Gap Band
The Troggs
the Fall
William Blake
Paul Simon
Pete Wylie/Wah!
13th Floor Elevators
Flying Nun Bands pre-92
Rolling Stones
Eddie Cochran
Fairport Convention
Mick Farren
Marianne Faithfull
Motown
Michel Polnareff
The Triffids
Blondie
Rough Trade Bands pre-86
T. Rex
Ed Sanders
Georg Lukacs
Bizarros
Chic
Howard Devoto
Mekons
The La's
Jim Carroll Band
Raymond Williams
Antonio Gramsci
The Raincoats
The Adverts
Captain Beefheart
Francoise Hardy
Pierre Bourdieu
Ed Sanders
ABC
Wreckless Eric
Monochrome Set
Archie Bell & the Drells
Talking Heads
Jefferson Airplane
Television
Charles Wright
Thomas Chatterton
Christopher Smart
Roland Barthes
Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Ramones
the Byrds
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Miles Davis
Alan Moore
The Serpent Power
Tom Verlaine
Karl Marx
Frank OHara
Ted Berrigan
Lloyd Cole
That Petrol Emotion
Ze Records
Frederick Douglass
Scritti Politti
Lautreamont
Grace Jones
Slapp Happy
The Last Men
Nectarine No. 9
Peter Blegvad
Iain Sinclair
Guy Debord
Oscar Wilde
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Buddy Holly
Richard/Linda Thompson
Ernst Bloch
Lou Reed
Bob Dylan
Kevin Ayers
Angry Samoans
The Chills
Moby Grape
John Phillips
Stranglers
Felt/Denim
Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Fugs
Kevin Coyne
Alexander Trocchi
Bert Jansch
Davey Graham
Raoul Vaneigem
Stewart Home
Walter Benjamin
The Bluebells
Fire Engines | | Sounds Like | You tell us. | | Record Label | Onan Records/Paisley Pop | | Type of Label | Indie |
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Okay folks, here’s the deal:
After eight years, three CD releases, four lead guitar players, around 100+ performances and untold bottles of bottom-shelf bourbon, the Crack City Rockers formally announce their amiable breakup, effective immediately. The celebratory final gig will be Friday, July 6 at the White Eagle Saloon, with guests Honus Huffhines and The Strange Effects. The band is survived by their latest release, The Good Life, and literally dozens of disappointed fans.
Every worthwhile endeavor eventually reaches a point of diminishing returns, and instead of letting the band degenerate into some kind of sad love affair we lack the courage to end, it seemed both simpler and more honest to just set a definitive “sell-by” date, shake hands like weary travelers at the end of the journey, and call it a day while the group still fires on all collective cylinders. Plus, by splitting up, the band enters our long-planned final phase by becoming yet another influential cult act that toiled in relative obscurity before leaving a legacy of work that grew in legend and impact long after the bones were picked clean. It’s nice work if you can get it.
And really, even if the band achieves this epic status only in the minds of the members and a few other hangers-on, that’ll be payment plenty. We knew we were good at what we did- convincing others that we were became less and less important and more and more boring, and now none of that matters at all.
So, were our weeks better than your years? Was our shit harder, shiner and more downright crystalline than your diamonds? It’s hard to say…..but here’s the important part: we always swung for the fence.
If on occasion we were just a sweaty, ridiculous mess, every once in a while we were also the best band going, bar none. Sometimes we flat-out sucked, but we were never, ever boring.
Regrets? Well, we never did score that endorsement deal from the Old Crow people. But in the larger scheme, we’ve checked off all the boxes on our dance card and did everything we set out to do.
All our love, Crack City Rockers
(active service) Ken Coleman- guitar, vocals/ Eric S. Gregory- lead vocals, guitar/ Curt Schulz, drums, percussion/Matt Sherman- bass.
(retired from duty) Sean Flora- bass and vocals, Dennis Mitchell- lead guitar, Steve McAvoy- lead guitar and vocals, Kurtiss Lofstrom- lead guitar and bass.
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