FLIPPER
2009
Fight (Live)
About This Album
Krist Novoselic's post-Nirvana musical career has seemed like something of a letdown compared to Dave Grohl's rise to bona fide rock stardom with the Foo Fighters and Kurt Cobain's posthumous deification, and after Sweet 75 and Eyes Adrift failed to connect with either audiences or critics, Novoselic announced he was walking away from the music game for a while. Clearly it took the right band to get him to change his mind, and that band was Flipper. While Novoselic's decision to join this ragged band of noisy cult heroes might seem curious, he's often cited Flipper as a key influence on his work, and who would turn down the opportunity to join a favorite band (especially since Novoselic doesn't have to count on the group as a source of income)? Novoselic's presence on Flipper's 2007 reunion tour (standing in for the late Will Shatter) turned out to be an inspired choice; Fight, recorded during shows in Seattle and Portland, doesn't quite match the frazzled brilliance of Blow'n Chunks or Public Flipper Limited, the authorized live documents of Flipper's first era, but it confirms there's still a lot of life left in these grizzled veterans.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,6,8 and 9)

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