Synths, Programming, Bass

Jim Craine co-founded Houston punk legend AK-47, then quit and founded industrial legend Culturcide with Perry Webb and Dan Workman. He did some other things and, many years down a long and winding road, reconnected with Mary Munson (Houston’s own Wild Bores) and Dan Workman to form The Popeboy Collective.

Guitars, Sk-1

Dan Workman became a fully-formed musical being when he joined Jim Craine and Perry Webb in 1980 forming the seminal art/noise/rock band, Culturcide. He leveraged his indie rock credentials and became a recording engineer for world-renowned artists. But mercifully for all, his ego returned to mortal proportions upon rejoining Jim Craine and Mary McGee Munson in The Popeboy Collective.

Dan’s other projects include a decades-long collaboration with The Wheel Workers, a meditation music project with Welch, Workman, Welch, and the agro-chill electronica duo, Can’t Take a Picture. Workman is also a psychotherapist specializing in therapy with people who identify as creatives.

Drums, Percussion

I need a sec to put on my gun belt, check my ammo, make sure I have my bible with me so I can get out of church by 10 AM Sunday to go buy booze for the Bar-B-Que. Chose to be a drummer because only those who scored 100 on the music aptitude test in summer school were allowed to be drummers.  I started on a Sears cardboard drum kit with tin cymbals that I got for Xmas 1967. Established C.I.A. Records and Shepherd Wong Music.

Vocals

I write the wrongs. I’m travel trailer trash. Popeboy and my cat friend Micky are my muses. And collaborating at a distance with such a great crew is pretty damned cool, if I do say so myself.

Synths, Programming, Piano

I started in Houston with Plastic Idols and Culturcide, before moving to New Orleans to focus on the Bongoloids. I worked with other bands in N.O. and Austin, but by the mid-90s shifted my energy toward painting. I’m now working with my old Culturcide mates and Houston friends in The Popeboy Collective, programming and constructing rhythm tracks from Heaven (aka Southwest Virginia) till the cows come home.

Visuals

We like making pretty pictures, editing videos and listening to mind-blowing music, such as what the Popeboy folk make here. Kristin’s a Lucifan who makes amazing vids, everywhere, all the time. Heather makes vids too, and art out of paper and fabric inspired by the messed-up-beautiful things she finds in her current home town of Houston, and beyond.