Los Angeles Free Music Society: BPeople
Tom Recchion assisted in defining what the Los Angeles Free Music Society was. He also played in a few too many groups to properly list here. One of the people he encountered in the weirdo music scene and subsequently played with was Pat Delaney. The pair would form BPeople and record a bit in the early eighties. That, though, was after Reccion had been involved in LAFMS’ various reaching arms and Delaney was a member of the Deadbeats.
If Devo had been founded in 1980 somewhere around the SoCal area, its sound would have closely resembled the Deabeats’ by virtue of exposure to early hardcore as well as the Flesheaters. Those disparate sounds, though, somehow find themselves smashed up over the course of the Deabeats’ Kill the Hippies single.
