Vautrin Vautrin The Thief (1943)

Over the last half-decade, The Pineapple Thief, led by musical polymath Bruce Soord and bolstered by the involvement of master drummer Gavin Harrison, has rapidly ascended to the upper echelons of Europe’s Alternative Rock scene.

Born: 8 February 1943. William Charles Schneider. Father, William Frank Schneider died in World War II. Mother Cozzette, (who still lives in Coarsegold) remarried and I became Chuck Ertmoed. My paternal grandparents, Grace and Gus Schneider settled in Oakhurst in 1923. They homesteaded a ranch located off road 426.
"While traveling in Europe, I changed my name to Creed Bratton,. I was born into a very musical family and lived my childhood in a small town near Yosemite, "Coarsegold". Everyone played music - my father, banjo; mother, mandolin; maternal grandfather, guitar; grandmother, drums; my paternal grandfather could play almost any instrument and was the leader of "The Bull Dog Minstrels" (on board the U.S.S. Oregon in the Pacific theater during the Spanish American War) and played bones, danced buck and wing, and sang. He was the Art Director on the classic silent movie, "The Thief of Bagdad" starring Douglas Fairbanks." (Stars in US series "The Office")

For centuries they've lived in secret among northern England's green and misted hills. Creatures of extraordinary beauty, power, and sensuality, they possess the ability to shape-shift from human to dragon and back again. Now their secret-and their survival-is threatened by a temptation that will break every boundary….

Over the last half-decade, The Pineapple Thief - led by musical polymath Bruce Soord and bolstered by the involvement of master drummer Gavin Harrison - has rapidly ascended to the upper echelons of Europe’s Alternative Rock scene.