TRAPPE:
The History

In the beginning there was chicken.  And with the chicken, there was Sean Pickford and Jeremy Hughes, two KFC employees by day, and musicians by night.   These two dedicated guys got together to jam one summer night  after work in 1994 continuing as a duo for about a year.  In the summer of 1995 they approached Justin Hicks, a bass player, to come and jam with them.  Everything was going well and they decided to look for a singer.  Sean, being a music major at Southeastern Illinois College in Harrisburg, Illinois (our home town), just happened to know a guy who could sing.  Enter Brent Floyd, hailing from nearby Norris City.  Brent Came down to Norman's garage (Sean's gramdpa), and everything clicked.  False Estate had just been born.  The original line-up went as follows:

Sean Pickford- Guitars
Jeremy Hughes- Drums
Justin Hicks- Bass
Brent Floyd- Vocals

In October, False Estate debuted at a JTPA chili supper in the cafeteria at SIC.  Soon after, they played their first official gig at Brewski's, a local bar in Harrisburg.  With another gig after, also at Brewski's, the Estate played the big SuperBowl XXX Blowout at Brewski's.  Just as soon as False Estate seemed to have a regular gig, Brewski's shut down.  The next gig was in May 1996 at SIC on the back patio.  It was an end of the semester BBQ, and they were well received.  

To keep the ball rolling, the band held a free public concert at the Harrisburg Park on the 4th of July 1996.  They shared the stage with a country singer named Krystal Walters.   In August, the band and Krystal shared another show in Norris City at the Game room.   That was one of the better gigs for the fact that the crowd was young and more energetic. 

Right after the Norris City gig, Brent left for Lawrence KS, to pursue his higher education.  For about a year the band was in a lull with trying to find a singer.  And after that short year Brent calls and says he's coming back.  Jeremy and Justin drove out to Kansas and brought home their singer.   But in that short year, Justin had switched to playing guitar and sold his bass and amp.   The next step was to find a bass player.   They soon met "Titty Bar" Ted Boulds, (a minister who seemed to have lost his way), at their Halloween Bash in 97.  They got together another set together and booked a gig at Vido's Lakeside in Harrisburg for April 3, 1998.

But then tragedy struck.  "Titty Bar" found the love of his life and said, "Adios" to the Estate, the night before the gig.  So the fellows faced the task of playing without a bass player, and were overwhelmingly successful. The gig was successful enough that they took on another bassless gig without hesitation.  They played a wedding reception/party in a Thompsonville pole barn.  Following this gig, they recruited Ben Bolin to fill the low end.

With the addition of Ben, the Estate headed to the recording studio and made a two song demo.  The demo consisted of  two of the band's original songs, "Gotta" and "Disengaged".  Soon after the demo was completed,  Ben left.  He said the pressure of playing in a real band was too much and he couldn't take it.

The pressure of  having no bass player eventually began to wear on the band.  Brent felt the pressure the most and decided it was time to go.  But once again, the Estate had a plan.

After some serious consideration, Jeremy laid down his faithful drumsticks, and picked up a new weapon... the bass.   Justin and Jeremy stepped up to share Brent's vacated position.  They called on Enfield native Zach Kemp to keep the rhythm.  And thus False Estate was, once again, reborn. 

With the new line-up one last recurring problem began to rear its ugly head.  This new problem was with the name "False Estate".  What is a "False Estate", one might ask?  Well, to tell you the truth, they didn't know either.  And to top it off, every venue they played billed them as something else.  Everything from "Fatal Attraction", "Fatal Estate", "False Arrest", you name it, it had been used.  So the search for a new name arose.  After several sessions of tossing words in a hat, nothing surfaced.  Finally they settled on "TRAPPE".  The rest is history.