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Rob Fraser's been in a lot of bands. From Apeface to Joe Q. Citizen to Boar Hunter, it's kind of hard to keep track of them all. "It's hard for me to keep track, too," he admits. But the band he's best known for is Krupted Peasant Farmerz, who in the '90s became one of San Jose's most beloved--and internationally famous--punk bands, with Fraser as guitarist. What KPF had that none of Fraser's subsequent bands did was his brother Dave, who was the engine behind the band's melodic combination of old-school political hardcore with new-school pop-punk. Dave left KPF in 1993, though the band continued on for five more years. With Dave not exactly the most social type, it took Rob almost 20 years to get him writing and singing again in their new joint project, Utter Failure. "Utter Failure is what we should have been doing from the get-go," Rob says now. The band has their first 7" out on Rob's Vine Hell label, showcasing a sound that is in many ways a KPF for the 21st century, stripped down to a single guitar assault and with an updated set of lyrical concerns. Rob couldn't be happier. "I feel at home in Utter Failure," he says. "I feel this crazy emotional passion playing Dave’s songs." - Steve Palopoli sanjose.com
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