FLIPPER: GONE FISHIN’ Second Studio Album (1984)

Gone Fishin’ is the second studio album by San Francisco-based punk rock band Flipper, released in August 29, 1984 by Subterranean Records. The album’s artwork featured a depiction of Flipper‘s tour van as a ready-to-cut-out-and-assemble centerpiece, with similar cutouts of the four band members on the back cover. At the time of the album’s release, Subterranean offered extra empty covers of the album by mail order for $2 for those Flipper fans that wanted to have a cover to cut up and assemble. The album was reissued by Water Records on December 9, 2008, for the first time on CD, with liner notes provided by Buzz Osborne of the Melvins.

Tracklist:

SIDE A

1. The Light, the Sound, the Rhythm, the Noise (Loose, Shatter)
2. First the Heart (DePace, Loose, Wilkinson)
3. In Life My Friends (Falconi, Harris)
4. Survivors of the Plague (Loose, Shatter)

SIDE B

1. Sacrifice (Shatter)
2. Talk’s Cheap (Loose, Shatter)
3. You Nought Me (Loose, Shatter)
4. One by One (Falconi, Shatter)

Credits
Flipper
Bruce Loose: vocals (1, 3, 5, 7, 8), bass (2, 4, 6), clavinet (1), congas (4), backing vocals (4)
Will Shatter: vocals (2, 4, 6), bass (1, 3, 5, 7, 8)
Ted Falconi: guitars
Steve DePace: drums, congas (4, 8), synare (7), piano (7)
Kirk “Charles” Heydt: alto saxophone (2)

Will Shatter (June 10, 1956 – December 9, 1987)
Bruce Loose Calderwood (June 6, 1959 – September 5, 2025)

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