Still Life was an

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band originally from Moorpark, California, and then the San Fernando Valley, California. They are credited for helping pioneer the first wave of

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. They started in the late 1980s with the name Monster Club. They changed their name in 1991 after the departure of the original lead singer Rick Rodney who joined the band

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. They were active until 2003 when all of their instruments were stolen from Chris Pitzel's truck parked on the street in front of their house after a show. Former Members Paul Rauch and David Pitzel have started a new band named Old Ground and continue to use Still Life's label, Sunflower Tribe.

Discography

* Still Life/

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split (Anomaly) 7" * Still Life (self-titled) (Rhetoric Records) 7" * Slow Children at Play (Rhetoric) 8" * Still Life/ Cerberus Shoal (Tree Records) 7" * From Angry Heads with Skyward Eyes (

Ebullition Records Boiling is the rapid vaporization of a liquid, which occurs when a liquid is heated to its boiling point, the temperature at which the vapour pressure of the liquid is equal to the pressure exerted on the liquid by the surrounding atmosphere. Th ...

) 2xLP/CD * Still Life/Jara split (Sunflower Tribe) 12" * Still Life/Resin split (Sunflower Tribe) 12" * The Madness and the Gackle (Sunflower Tribe) 12"/CD * Slow Children at Play and Beyond (Sunflower Tribe) 12"/CD * Limitations, Boundaries, and Failures EP (

Greyday Records Greyday Productions, sometimes called simply Greyday Records, is an independent record label based in Portland, Oregon, United States. Formed to release a new record from Still Life, Greyday is operated mainly by Todd Berry (who moved to Portlan ...

) 12"/CD * The Incredible Sinking Feeling (

) CD

External links

* http://www.ebullition.com/catalog16.html * http://www.sunflowertribe.com * https://web.archive.org/web/20060813081816/http://www.greydayproductions.com/bands/still.html * http://www.twoifbysearecords.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=still+life {{DEFAULTSORT:Still Life (Us Band) Emo musical groups from California American post-hardcore musical groups Musical groups established in 1989 Musical groups disestablished in 2003