Curtis Creager is a Canadian

Canada

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 bass guitar

Bass guitar

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ist, best known as a former member of the punk rock

Punk rock

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 band SNFU

SNFU

SNFU is a Canadian punk rock band formed in 1981 in Edmonton, Alberta and later relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia. They have released nine full-length albums and are cited as a formative influence on the skate punk sub-genre....

.

Career

Creager joined the influential Edmonton

Edmonton

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, Alberta

Alberta

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-based skate punk

Skate punk

Skate punk is a sub genre of punk rock, originally a derivative of the West Coast hardcore punk scene, that is named after its popularity among skateboarders and association with skateboarding culture. Skate punk most commonly describes the sound of melodic hardcore bands from the 1990s with an...

 band SNFU in 1987, becoming their fourth bassist. While with the band he recorded tracks for their third LP, 1988's Better Than A Stick In The Eye

Better Than A Stick In The Eye

Better Than a Stick in the Eye is an album by Edmonton punk rock band SNFU. The album was released in 1988.-Track listing:#Time to Buy a Futon#G.I...

, and embarked on extensive touring with the group, including their first trip to Europe.

SNFU disbanded temporarily in 1989, and Creager went on to play in the band Deadbeat Backbone with members of Jr. Gone Wild

Jr. Gone Wild

Jr. Gone Wild was a country/punk rock based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, founded in 1982.The band's founding members were Mike McDonald, Tom Wolfe, Adele Wolfe, and Bill Pontez, they formed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They played several gigs in Calgary including The Calgarian Hotel and The...

. In 1991, Creager joined the Belke brothers, singer Ken Chinn

Ken Chinn

Kendall "Ken" Chinn is a Canadian punk rock lead vocalist and artist. He is best known, under the pseudonym Mr. Chi Pig, as the lead singer of the band SNFU. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.-Early life and career:Born to German and Chinese parents, Chinn was the second...

 and former drummer Jon Card

Jon Card

Jon Card is a Canadian punk rock drummer. He is the current drummer in the long-standing punk bands SNFU and The Subhumans.-Career:Card grew up in Calgary, Alberta and formed his first band, Plasticide in his late teens. In 1981 he joined the Winnipeg-based band Personality Crisis, with whom he...

 in reforming SNFU. The band embarked on an extensive tour, but Creager opted against staying with the band thereafter as they relocated to Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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, signed to Epitaph Records

Epitaph Records

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 and returned to a full-time workload. Creager also appears on the SNFU compilation album The Last Of The Big Time Suspenders

The Last Of The Big Time Suspenders

The Last of the Big Time Suspenders is an album by Edmonton punk rock band SNFU. The album, a compilation of mostly unreleased studio and live tracks, was released in 1991, two years after SNFU's first breakup, to satisfy their unfulfilled two-album contract with Cargo Records...

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Most recently, Creager has co-founded the Montreal

Montreal

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, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

-based classic rock band Durtloader in 2008.

External links

• Official SNFU web page
• Durtloarder at Myspace.com