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Raymond John " East Bay Ray" Pepperell (born November 17, 1958) is an American musician who plays guitar for the San Francisco Bay area -based punk band Dead Kennedys. His guitar work was influenced by jazz and rockabilly. Alongside Jello Biafra 's astute lyrics and unique vibrato-based vocal style, East Bay Ray's playing was one of the ...
East Bay Ray was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, California on November 17, 1958. He was inspired to do music by his father, who had a collection of 78RPM jazz and country blues records from the 1930's and 40's. When Ray's father was a teenager, he used to sneak into black jazz clubs to see Duke Ellington and Count Basie back when the ...
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Oct 6, 2022 · Did you guys have the name early on and how did you come up with that? The story goes, an aquaintance of Biafra's, back in Colorado had the name but no band. So he brought it in and it was put on. And then when we had the band we used that guy's name. I don't know. I used to know the name of the person but it's been so long I don't remember.
In 2011, East Bay Ray met Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and the rest of the Foo Fighters backstage at their SXSW show in Austin. All a bunch of down-to-earth people. What stood out though, was when Dave told Ray he has 3 musical idols – John Bonham, Paul McCartney and East Bay Ray! Wtf!! Imagine the sound they would make!
Jul 7, 2016 · East Bay Ray, who was born in Oakland, California, in 1958 as Raymond Pepperell, is a punk icon. His band, the Dead Kennedys, launched what critics call the second wave of American punk and defined the sound of hardcore. Their music was aggressive, defiant, and the polar opposite of the synthesized cheese popular in the ’80s.
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Nov 21, 2016 · Guitarist Raymond John Pepperell – best known by his nickname East Bay Ray – is an integral part of the Dead Kennedys, both their classic 80s lineup and current incarnation. His guitar sound and licks, which were stylistically antithetical to anything in the 80s hardcore scene, have since been picked apart, studied and copied by countless ...
Mar 4, 2022 · The Dead Kennedys bass/drums/guitar power trio lineup gave East Bay Ray plenty of space to fill, and instead of bashing out distorted barre chords, he often opted for a more ambient approach, using copious amounts of echo generated by his battered Maestro EP-3 Echoplex tape unit.
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