Effective period / Period of releases: 2010

Members: Perry Merritt, Rick Wolfe (2), Fred Faller, Marcus Padgett

The North American band Zip Tang was founded in 2003 in Chicago, by Perry Merritt (guitar, vocals) and Richard Wolfe (bass, backing vocals). The line-up was completed with Fred Faller (drums) and Marcus Padgett (saxophones, keyboards, synthesizers and vocals). Under the name of "RPM", the band started out playing covers of Steely Dan, Santana, The Allman Brothers, Jeff Beck, and Yes - influences that are still present in their work.