Red Red Groove Scrapbook

Before the internet kept records, there were flyers stapled to telephone poles, photos taken on film, and memories that lived only in the minds of the people who were there.

Red Red Groove was a Tulsa, Oklahoma, industrial band that I was involved with from 1988 to 1993-ish. In a city not exactly known for the genre, we carved out our own corner of the scene — sharing stages with acts like Nine Inch Nails and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult and building a following that understood exactly what we were doing, even when nobody else did.

This scrapbook is what I have left of that era. Photos, flyers, and artifacts from a time before everything was documented automatically. If you were there, hopefully something here jogs a memory. If you weren’t, welcome to a small piece of Tulsa music history that never quite made it into the official record.

Years later, founding member Mike Castle and I got back together to record Return (2022) — an album that revisited the Red Red Groove sound with fresh ears. Mike continues to carry the Red Red Groove name forward, and I still contribute a remix or guitar part here and there when the moment calls for it.

But this page is about the beginning. Dig in… and if you have a scan of a flyer or photos that I don’t have, feel free to send them in – I may add them to the scrapbook!