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CREEPY T's
"Music only pregnant mothers can hear! (over all the screaming kids)"
Punkers influenced by B horror movies, garage-rock and surf music, with lots of EXTREME ANTICS!
Since late 2001, the modern-day Creepy T's have terrorized the dance halls, bars and clubs of South and Central Florida. Imagine the Cramps with a Farfisa organ!
Derek Hyde - vocals, guitar Frontman
Steve of Destruction - rogue bass player and bass fisherman
Thomas Dementrius - organ, slide whistle, Jew's harp, electric piano
Dave "The Illustrated Man" Boloby - drummer
"Surabaya Johnny" Letch - guitar
The Creepy T's play
music from the graveyard with the influences of blues, surf, garage,
punk, glam and B-movie trash culture. First formed in '98-'99, the T's
gained notoriety in South Florida due to their catchy rock and roll
songs and also frontman Derek Hyde's stage antics. The T's were
once kicked off the stage at Ft. Lauderdale's Poorhouse for being "too
loud." The T's ended up headlining the Miami Rocks! festival.
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Biography
Guitarist and lead vocalist Derek Hyde reformed the legendary Creepy T's in 2001 with the addition of a full-time organ player, Tommy Rotten, formerly of Gainesville, Fla. and drummer Bobby Sox, originally from Liverpool, U.K. Bobby Sox left the group to dig potatoes in the green fields of Ireland, and we have proudly added Ray "FANG" Henry as our skin-man. Unfortunately, we had to trade his trademark CreepyMobile for a microphone. I'm sure fellow musicians will understand... Our latest mad-dition to the gang is none other than Dr. Steven Van Helsing, who spends his time on genetic experiments on stingrays (this ain't no lie!). Marky Crypt swtiched to 2nd guitar and still howls.
Personnel include onetime members of Kreamy L'ectric Santa, the Holy Terrors, the Hivebuzzers, the Pop Skulls, F (one of the five Florida bands named F) and the Claude Pepper Blues Explosion. Drummer Ray Fang has long experience playing with acts in New York, Georgia and Hawaii. Previous band personnel have included Bobby Sox and Fang The Illustrated Man & Ray Fang on skins, Marky Crypt on bass and guitar.
The T is for totally awesome
On a dark and stormy night last year, the creepiest band in America was burning bridges at one of the friendliest venues in Palm Beach County. A temporary ban from the Red Lion, two drummers, two bass players, and a new guitarist later, the Creepy T's return to the scene of that fateful night. The departure of the loved/reviled, always volatile drummer Fang resulted in the recent additions of Captain Gary Harris (ex-Billy Boloby) on drums and John "Foxton" Letch on lead guitar. With their revamped lineup, the T's have been turning heads, shrunken, pickled, and otherwise, with their almost (dare we say it?) tight performances. Always a band with great songs and over-the-top performances, the T's were teetering on the brink of total combustion every night until the shakeup. Grab a bowl of witches brew, put your arm around Swampy, rub the monkey's paw, and hope tonight's show is a roller coaster, not a train wreck.
Frequently, our technical difficulties are indistinguishable from our music.
Best Local Rock Band
Creepy Ts Yes, the band that New Times chose as Best Band to Leave Broward/Palm Beach in 2000 is one of the few bands that hasn't made New York City its new home. Though guitarist/vocalist Derek Hyde and drummer Eddie Brandt took a stab at relocating to the Big Apple, Hyde moved back home in 2001. And we can thank the rock gods for that, because this is one of the few local bands that truly knows how to rock. There ain't no shoe-gazing here, just pure entertainment. The Creepy T's balance song and shtick, whether it's Hyde's manic meltdowns or the band's catchy, B-movie-inspired tunes with amusing titles you're not likely to find on the next Franz Ferdinand album. Try "Tiger with the She-Bitch On" or "Fire Gods of the South Pacific" -- quite a bit more interesting than songs about heartbreak and cheating girlfriends. Then again, Hyde's not big on following the whole indie hipster trend; he's more likely to wear a hula skirt than denim and Converse. And while the vintage farfisa sounds of keyboardist Thomas Dementrius place the Creepy T's in garage territory, the band operates outside that genre's hipster image as well. But if you doubt the T's rock cred, check out their new gig as backing band for King Coleman, the legendary "Mashed Potato Man" himself. Indeed, the Creepy T's carry the torch of rock 'n' roll like a South Pacific fire god -- hula skirt and all.
Comments: Not to be confused with the Marilyn Manson-esque Death Becomes You (see listing below), The Creepy T’s celebrate B-movie and pulp-fiction horror culture with considerable camp and negligible face paint — though frontman Hyde has been known to perform in drag and make out with fake human skulls on-stage. The group, which can be found lurking around venues such as the Billabong Pub in Pembroke Park, T-zer’s in Fort Lauderdale and Churchill’s in Little Haiti, recently released a six-song EP featuring the songs “Mummy’s Curse,” “Mickey Hargitay’s Ghost” and “Shrunken Head.” Somewhere, Vincent Price and The Three Stooges are smiling. Find out more at www.geocities.com/creepyts.
contact: 954/828-9906
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