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Crash Pad is a punk rock and roll band from Gainesville, Florida. Crash Pad was founded and began playing shows in Spring 1996. Crash Pad consists of Brian Krashpad on vocals and guitar, J.T. Crashpad on bass and vocals, Bruce Barkwill on drums, and Mitch Estic on guitar and vocals.
Crash Pad has been described by local newspaper the Gainesville Sun as "Gainesville's long-running, hard-working, old-school punks." ("Sound Check" column, Pat Hughes, 9/17/99.) The editor of local alternative newspaper Moon Magazine, writing for the website GNV.yourvillage.com in June 2000, described Crash Pad as "Melodic and raw, through various line up changes Crash Pad has been a mainstay of local music," ("Crash Pad Performs Tonight," Colin Whitworth, 6/12/00), and Detours magazine (part of the Alligator student newspaper) agrees on the "mainstay" description. (Fall Music Showcase to Get Eclectic this Weekend," Sekhmet, 10/5/00). The G-Note webpage, in 1999, called Crash Pad "one of Gainesville's only punk bands." Local entertainment magazine Chomp says "Crash Pad brings back the punk flavor Gainesville is missing" and ,"definitely recommend[s]" checking out Crash Pad (October 1999 Local Scene column), and Rock 104's Brian Walker says "Crash Pad... are Gainesville's long-time, famous punksters." (Rock 104 Concert Series Locals Only E-mail, 3/3/01). Maximum RockNRoll zine called Crash Pad "solidly rocking" with a "heavy on the guitars punk sound, and... vocals [that] are mostly snotty with a healthy dose of angry thrown in." (July 2002, Erin Yanke)In 2000 Crash Pad won the Hogtown Music Award for Best Punk Band, and in 2001 was named to the Alligator's "Hot 20" list of Gainesvilles' Best Bands. In 2003 Crash Pad appeared on the Home Van charity compilation CD on Signalpath Records featuring Gainesville's best bands.
Crash Pad's members have been in other local punk and underground rock bands, including Allen Wrench, Sick Dick and the Volkswagens, Hoyt and the HotHeads, Dynamite Charade, Freelance Butcher, and Led Astray.
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