The Expendables, Chad Tepper, Acari
The Expendables
An award-winning, California-grown, surf culture band that's established itself as a vital part of the Santa Cruz, CA music scene. Expendables' distinctive live performances and unique brand of music. Described as an electric mix of genre-bending rock, reggae and surf. It has begun to charm audiences far and wide. Rapidly approaching status as a full-time touring act, the band is a rising star on the West Coast. To date, The Expendables have performed with in-demand musical acts such as Slightly Stoopid and reggae legend Eek-A-Mouse; they have appeared live on the Vans’ Warped Tour; and hosted their own radio show on The Santa Cruz X 103.9 FM. The Expendables landed number one in the Metro Santa Cruz Top 10 list of favorite bands in local music. In addition, Lion Entertainment and Your Music Magazine awarded the group first place in their Battle of the Bands contest in 2002. The Expendables have five original full-length albums to their credit: "No Time to Worry" (2001); "Open Container" (2002); "Gettin' Filthy,” (2006) the polished result of a two-month recording stint at Herbie Herbert’s Sy Klopps Studios in San Francisco; "The Expendables" (2007); and their most recent, "Prove It" (2010). http://www.myspace.com/theexpendables http://www.theexpendables.net/ . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
About This Event
Tickets available locally at Recycled Records***All tickets purchased for the original dates & venue will be honored at the door***Bio:The Expendables have proven anything but in their nearly 25-year career since starting out as a spirited party band in high school performing surf-rock covers for birthdays and family gatherings. A quarter-century later, elementary school buddies Raul Bianchi, Adam Peterson and Geoff Weers, along with bassist Ryan DeMars, who joined in 2000, have forged a unique sound born in the laid-back beach life in their hometown of Santa Cruz, CA. The Expendables infectious hybrid of ska, surf-rock, punk, reggae and metal can be heard in their latest streaming track, Surfman Cometh, a spaghetti-western meets Pipeline twang that could easily form the soundtrack to the latest Quentin Tarantino film.
The song is the first release from the groups new and improved Band Room, their longtime rehearsal space in a 1,100 square foot warehouse and former wine cellar on Coral Street, where Adam Patterson took charge of the final mix to great effect. The bands previous studio album of original material, 2015s Sand in the Sky, was followed by The Expendables second release featuring acoustic reworkings of past material, Gone Raw, 2019s follow-up to 2012s Gone Soft. The Expendables continue woodshedding until they can get back out on the road.
Their 2017 Moment EP, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Reggae chart, showed the band starting to move into different musical directions, a set featuring collaborations with reggae crooner HIRIE, rapper Tech N9ne, Eric Rachmany, and Micah Peuschel