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Perry Merritt - vocals, guitar,
synths
Fred Faller - drums
Andrew Bunk - bass, vocals
Former members:
Marcus Padgett - sax,
keyboards, vocals
Richard Wolfe - bass,
vocals
Zip Tang began as a
conversation
between Perry Merritt and
Rick Wolfe
at a local jam session in a suburb of Chicago,
IL. in 2002. The idea was to start a fun little
project covering some of their favorite artists'
music - Steely Dan, Jeff Beck, Traffic, Yes,
King Crimson, etc... The search began for a
drummer and keyboard player, and Fred's audition
locked in the core trio of the band then known
as RPM. With no luck finding a keyboard player,
Fred brought in his orchestral mate from the
College Of DuPage big jazz band - Marcus Padgett
- who played saxophone and a little keyboards.
Soon after, the band's name was changed to Zip
Tang and the decision was made to start writing
original material. The first album released in
2007 - Luminiferous
Ether - gained some recognition with the
track "Tower
Of Tuna" and their interpretation of the "Tarkus" suite by ELP.
The next album Pank
was warmly welcomed by critics and was nominated
for best progressive rock album by the "grass
roots Grammys" organization Just Plain Folks in
2009. Great reviews continued
with the two follow up releases Feed Our Heads and
Das
Reboot. In the summer of 2015 ZT v2.0
released their fifth collection of tunes Private
Shangri-La.
In
the summer of the pandemic - 2020, the
sixth record and first concept album Cold
Coming was released with their new
bassist Andrew Bunk. |
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