Biography
Originating in 1984 more from idle restlessness than from any deliberate musical ambition, Snow Bud and the Flower People gradually became a regional staple across the Pacific Northwest. The group issued a modest sequence of singles and albums—several accompanied by comic books—through Sub Pop, Tim Kerr, assorted smaller imprints, and independent self-releases. Their debut, a self-titled cassette, first circulated in Portland and was succeeded by the follow-up cassette Vegetable Matter. After bandleader Snow Bud served time in jail and surrendered his publishing rights to raise bail funds, a comic book paired with an album appeared and received notice in High Times. That project, Green Thing, preceded the Tim Kerr release Ripped van Stinkle. A subsequent comic and single emerged on Flying Heart, after which the accumulating attention earned the band Sub Pop’s Single of the Month slot for “Killer Bud” b/w “Third Shelf,” itself packaged with another comic and marking the final entry in an otherwise steady run of recordings aside from a lone solo outing. Snow Bud later surfaced in San Francisco without housing and remained absent from view for approximately five years. Upon returning to Portland he issued the album Holy Smoke. Throughout the second half of the 2000s he focused on sobriety while performing occasional shows that drew warm responses from audiences.
Albums
