Reggie and the Full Effect

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Reggie and the Full Effect
James Dewees
Country	Kansas City, USA
Years active	1998–Present
Genres	indie rock
Labels	Vagrant Records
Members	James Dewees

Reggie and the Full Effect is a Kansas City-based American band featuring James Dewees, former drummer for Coalesce and keyboardist for The Get Up Kids, and touring keyboardist for New Found Glory. They debuted in 1998 (see 1998 in music) with the full-length Greatest Hits 1984-1987 on Second Nature Recordings.

Reggie struck back quickly in April of 2000 (see 2000 in music) by releasing their second full-length, Promotional Copy, on Vagrant Records.

After a three-year hiatus, Reggie released their third album, Under the Tray, in February of 2003 (see 2003 in music). This album contained the single Congratulations Smack and Katy, which would be the tune behind Reggie's first music video. This track also featured on the Burnout 3 soundtrack, which brought new fans to the group when the game was released in 2004.

Reggie's fourth studio album, Songs Not to Get Married To, was released on March 29th, 2005 (see 2005 in music). Most of the music from this album was inspired by the nasty divorce Dewees went through with ex-wife Megan.

Dewees plays nearly every instrument on Reggie's recordings, including bass guitar, drums, and of course, keyboards. On the albums one can find different personas adopted by Dewees for some of the songs, including a British musician by the name of Fluxuation (who is reminiscent of artists from the New Wave and New Romantic styles), and Common Denominator, a Finnish band with more industrial learnings similar to that of Germany's Rammstein. Reggie's lineup for live performances changes frequently, but often contains members of The Get Up Kids, Coalesce, and The Esoteric, all of which are bands to whom Dewees has lent his musical talents. Other members of the live show have included musicians from the bands Hot Rod Circuit, The Anniversary, From Autumn to Ashes and most recently Shots Fired and Slipknot. The Reggie and the Full Effect live show is like a Broadway production where Dewees is the star, complete with theatrical costumes, lights, and dialogue.

The touring lineup of Reggie and the Full Effect seems to change with every tour. Former members of Reggie and the Full Effect include Cory White of Coalesce/the Esoteric on guitar and Josh Newton, who now plays for From Autumn to Ashes, on bass. Newton befriended From Autumn to Ashes while they were on tour with Reggie and the Full Effect and Alkaline Trio.

Reggie and the Full Effect and Alkaline Trio supported My Chemical Romance on their first headlining tour in late 2005.

Reggie and the Full Effect dropped off of the Warped Tour this summer to record a follow up to Songs Not To Get Married To with producer Sean Beavan (Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Slayer). The new album is due out in the first half of 2007.

It was confirmed by AbsolutePunk that Reggie would release the song; "F Train" from their new album exclusively for 24 hours on their MySpace profile on October 31, 2006. The song is very reminiscent of James's former band Coalesce, which hints towards the direction James took with the new album.

1 Discography
2 Samples
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Discography

Greatest Hits 1984-1987 (May 19, 1999)
Promotional Copy (April 25, 2000)
Under the Tray (February 18, 2003)
Greatest Hits 1984-1987 (Reissue) (April 12, 2004)
Songs Not to Get Married To (March 29, 2005)

[edit] Samples

Download sample of "Congratulations Smack and Katy" from Under the Tray.

[edit] Trivia

Their song, "Apocalypse WOW!" from Under the Tray plays in a couple of the Emogame series.
The song, "Take Me Home Please" is played in The Sims 2 with the lyrics changed to use the in-game language called Simlish.
The song, "Get Well Soon" from Songs Not to Get Married To is featured in the Xbox 360 game Saints Row.