Randy Chepigan

Bio:

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Out to prove that tired-and-bitter can be fun!!!

Knowing that the world surely must be in desperate need of another middle-aged singer/songwriter/traffic-reporter, Randy Chepigan remains obsessed with writing quirky and attemptedly-literate semi-acoustic emo garage pop, whenever the rest of his life allows the elusive spare moment.

Foremost in preventing him from doing more of this is a continuing day gig for the past 28+ years as a musically-savvy-yet-goofy radio traffic reporter guy. Currently heard babbling incessant traffic every weekday afternoon on public radio WHYY 90.9 FM Philadelphia, classical WRTI 90.1 FM Philadelphia, top 40/rhythmic WPHI 100.3 FM Philadelphia ("100.3 The Beat, Interactive Hip-Hop and R&B"), hot a/c WSJO 104.9 FM South Jersey ("South Jersey's Own, SoJO 104-9"), urban talk WURD 900 AM Philadelphia ("Your Information Station, Committed To Solutions"), SIRIUS/XM Channel 149 ("First Traffic for Philadelphia"), classic rock WEZX 106.9 FM Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ("Rock 107") and country WSJR 93.7 FM Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ("J.R. 93-7") -- and continuing to merely grouse about management duties the rest of each work day. Amidst his sordid past, he's been a part of various other popular Philly radio incarnations, including aaa WXPN, nostalgia/oldies WPEN, hot a/c "96-5 The Point", rock WMMR, all-news KYW, top 40 "Eagle 106", urban a/c WDAS, newstalk WWDB, and a fond but distant memory of the first "modern rock" station in Philly, "I-92 Rock of the 80's"!

Since this is really pushing it as a claim to semi-fame, he also played and recorded with lots o' bands with pitifully modest success from the mid-70's 'til the mid-90's, since then channeling the sparse remaining energy to family and day gig. But he continued all the while locking himself into small rooms to write and record a few times per year.

And so, in mid-2005, Randy finally started to VERY GRADUALLY record some of the most recent stuff for internet release. Roughly an EP's worth of tracks now available for purchase through the Snocap store above. Please feel free to purchase some tracks for your very own. ("Any reasoning for such a purchase is encouraged and much-appreciated -- affection, pity, charity, actual enjoyment or all of the above...") Given the utter lack of available free time to record, these tracks may either continue to be released individually online, or may EVENTUALLY be gathered into some kind of attemptedly cohesive EP or CD collection. If that ever does happen, after prerequisite multiple delays -- ("Get it? It's almost as if it's on purpose!"), it'll be called "Delays Major and Minor". ("Meanwhile, y'know, my pretense is that I'm purposely eschewing the old-fashioned CD format in favor of this happenin' download hipness. Absolutely nothing to do with my ridiculously-slow output rate or anything...")

In November 2006, Randy contrbuted a cover of "Out Of Its Misery", along with two cover collaborations with the lovely and talented Cindy Graham, to a pretty cool tribute collection, "Look What The Fans Drug In - A Tribute To The Music Of Michael Penn". That entire project is really worth checking out, but for a more direct route to Cindy's and Randy's contributions, please head on over to the Graham-Chepigan MySpace page and leave a comment or friend request or whatnot...

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Member Since:

July 14, 2005

Members:

"Um, yeah, this time that would be just me, locked in a small room, megalomaniacally playing and singing all the parts... with the exception of 'Can We Do That Again', to which Cindy Graham contributes some lovely bg vox..."

Influences:

Literate singer-songwriters; powerpop; hook-laden eclectic... Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Elvis Costello, Fountains of Wayne, Ben Folds, Barenaked Ladies, Beatles, Beach Boys, Pugwash, Jellyfish, Crowded House, Marshall Crenshaw, Squeeze, Matthew Sweet, Randy Newman, Rhett Miller, Jackdaw4, ike, Duane Dolieslager, Getaway Car, Mayflies USA, Smithereens, Jim Boggia, Jonathan Coulton, David Mead, Lisa Loeb, John Wesley Harding, Fastball, Electric Light Orchestra, Cars, Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, on and on it goes...

Sounds Like:

"Well heck, trying to sound like some blend of myself and all of the influences, I suppose, but who knows? And, with hopes I'm not insulting any of them, I'll herein repeat listing them all just in case anyone's searching this field! Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Elvis Costello, Fountains of Wayne, Ben Folds, Barenaked Ladies, Beatles, Beach Boys, Pugwash, Jellyfish, Crowded House, Marshall Crenshaw, Squeeze, Matthew Sweet, Randy Newman, Rhett Miller, Jackdaw4, ike, Duane Dolieslager, Getaway Car, Mayflies USA, Smithereens, Jim Boggia, Jonathan Coulton, David Mead, Lisa Loeb, John Wesley Harding, Fastball, Electric Light Orchestra, Cars, Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren ..."

Record Label:

Sleep-Deprived Records