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A Wipers come the punk rock group formed in Portland, Oregon in 1977 by guitarist Greg Sage, drummer Sam Henry and bassist Doug Koupal.
Is This Real?, The Wiper’s 1st album, was foremost freed within 1980 & quietly gained the cult following. A Wipers became better known fallowing a wildly popular grunge band Nirvana covered two songs from either Is This Real?. Nirvana’s frontman,Kurt Cobain, spoke of being heavy influenced per band. the Wipers were a major influence on the grunge music scene in general, & Wipers albums such as Is This Real? & On top a Edge come at present widely considered to exist as among a greatest & virtually all influential sleazy albums ever.
When a Wipers began by pioneering a pinching, catchy punk that Nirvana & others would late right, a band quickly evolved into producing guitar-solo wet, labyrinthian punk heroic poem. Sage became known for non just his clean-it-yourself ethics & guitar solos, however likewise for his domineering approach to the band’s originative run.
Around 1992, a benefit album Eight songs for Greg Sage & a Wipers (Tim Kerr Records) was freed in Quaternion coloured Heptad-inch records, & involved Wipers songs performed by Nirvana, Hole, Napalm Beach, M99, Crakerbash, Poison Idea, and A Whirlees. A Video release of benefit album was known as Fourteen Songs for Greg Sage & a Wipers, & was expanded to include covers by Hazel, Calamity Jane, Saliva Tree, Honey, United states of Ulysses, & Thurston Moore-Keith Nealy.
Inside 2001, Greg Sage’s Zeno Records freed the Trey Video Pack Placed of the Wiper’s foremost Three albums, which by that period got get yearn out-of-print.
Discography
Better Off Dead (single), (1978) Debut Single
Is This Real?, (1980)
Youth of America, (1981)
Over the Edge, (1983)
The Wipers, (1985) Live album
Straight Ahead, (1985) Greg Sage Solo Record
Land of the Lost, (1986)
Follow Blind, (1987)
The Circle, (1988)
Sacrifice (for Love), (1991) Greg Sage Solo Record
Silver Sail, (1995)
The Herd, (1996)
Power in One, (1999)
Wipers Box Set, (2001)
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