Bob Vickers

The Incredible Vickers Brothers is a solo project from California-based songwriter and instrumentalist Bob Vickers, who is credited as co-founder of the group along with his fictional brother Rob Vickers. In the early 1990s, Vickers was part of the studio-oriented alternative pop group Cerebral Corps, who released one critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful album for Alias Records in 1992. Vickers then went on to join the Orange Peels, a West Coast three-piece whose blend of vintage pop, surf music, and light psychedelia has earned them a loyal cult following; Vickers played drums and sang on the albums Square (1997) and So Far (2001), and appeared as a guest musician on 2005's Circling the Sun. In 2008, Vickers and Orange Peels leader Allen Clapp went into Clapp's Mystery Lawn Studio, and with Clapp co-producing and playing percussion while Vickers and his fictive brother handled nearly everything else, they created the Incredible Vickers Brothers' debut album, Gallimaufry, a pastiche of folk-rock and '60s pop that was released by the power pop enthusiasts at Bus Stop Records. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi