At least three bands have operated as The Sleepers in the past two decades. A late 70's punk group from San Francisco, a South African band formed in 2003, and a more recent bar band from Chicago ILL.

The first known act called the Sleepers were a first wave San Francisco punk band that began in 1977 and featured lead singer Ricky Williams who also was briefly in Crime, Flipper and the Toiling Midgets, before he died of a heroin overdose.

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Chicago's Sleepers formed in 2003 and pitch themselves as hard to ignore and impossible to forget. The thunderous backbone of John Fields (drums) and Chris Cormier (bass) lays a foundation for Kevin Bannon's driving riffs and pounding rhythms. Tony Manno's nasty licks cut through the rhythms, recalling the days when guitarists were gods, and remind anybody in earshot that gods still walk among us. And above it all, Tom Richied's gritty vocals drive the dirty sound of this band right into the mind of anybody lucky enough to experience it.


If Jerry Lee Lewis had married Appetite For Destruction instead of his cousin, his kids would've been The Sleepers. Whether it is stranger to marry an album than a cousin is debatable, but the fact that The Sleepers play some lowdown, dirty, rock n roll is not. Coming from Chicago with one foot in the blues and the other kicking the ass of bands that forgot what rock music is, they have created a sound that is at once both familiar and unique. Combining the fire of the MC5 and Clash, the swagger of The Faces and Stones, and the atomic energy of The Stooges and AC/DC.

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Another group operating as The Sleepers are a band from Cape Town, South Africa. They formed in 2003 and play progressive and experimental rock/metal and have received critical acclaim for their performances. Their official website is: www.thesleepers.co.za.