It began as an odd merger of musicians, milling about the blue collar steel town of Santa Barbara, CA: Tom Lackner and Joe Woodard (drums and guitar), converging with the tromp of Rob Taylor and Bruce Winter, guitar and bass, respectively. They played, made TEX, then Rob left to pursue Rob. flapping, Flapping, FLAPPING lost a word. Then, Glen Phillips joined the fold, now dubbed flapping, Flapping. Then they played and enjoyed each other's otherness, and made a CD, Montgomery Street, and then Glen left to play in his popular combo, Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Next up, guitarist-singer-songwriter-nice-guy John Askew--who played with Winter in the band Wasted Tape--entered the picture. John moves to Portland, forms Tracker and gets involved with the label FILMguerrero: enter another nice, gifted chap, Todd Capps, singer-songwriter-keyboardist-bassist-film-scoring ace.
Now, the band--whoever it is--is hoping to complete a new album (possibly a double album) in 2007, in honor of the eleven years since their last release... The saga continues, although the direction remains pleasingly vague.
