Reggie and the Full Effect

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Reggie and the Full Effect
Also known as	Common Denominator Fluxuation
Origin	Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Genre(s)	Pop punk Rock
Years active	1998 – present
Label(s)	Second Nature Records Vagrant Records
Associated acts	The Get Up Kids Coalesce My Chemical Romance New Found Glory
Members
James Dewees

Reggie and the Full Effect is a Kansas City-based American music project featuring James Dewees who was the former drummer for Coalesce, keyboardist for The Get Up Kids, and former touring keyboardist for New Found Glory and currently My Chemical Romance.

1 History
2 Future
3 Band Story
4 Discography
5 External links

[edit] History

Reggie and the Full Effect is a solo project for James Dewees. In the late 1990s, when he was still playing with The Get Up Kids, he wrote several songs that he felt wouldn't fit with the band's style. However, he continued to write, and soon, with the help of The Get Up Kids lead singer Matt Pryor, he recorded and released Reggie and the Full Effect's first album Greatest Hits 1984-1987 in 1998 on Second Nature Recordings.

In April of 2000, Reggie released his second full-length, Promotional Copy on Vagrant Records, and after a three-year hiatus, the third album Under the Tray was released in February of 2003. This album contained the single Congratulations Smack and Katy, which would be the tune behind Reggie's first music video.

Reggie's fourth studio album, Songs Not to Get Married To, was released on March 29th, 2005. Most of the music from this album was inspired by the divorce Dewees went through with former wife Megan. Sean Ingram of Coalesce and ex-From Autumn to Ashes lead singer Ben Perri both appear on the album.

Dewees plays nearly every instrument on Reggie's recordings, including bass, drums, and keyboards. Each album also includes songs by alternate personas, acted out by Dewees in various styles. Fluxuation (who is reminiscent of artists from the New Wave and New Romantic styles), and Common Denominator, a Finnish Metal 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, Ultimate Fakebook, and most recently Shots Fired and Slipknot. Former members include Cory White of Coalesce, the Esoteric on guitar and Josh Newton, who now plays for Every Time I Die, on bass. Newton befriended From Autumn to Ashes while they were on tour with Reggie and the Full Effect and Alkaline Trio.

[edit] Future

Reggie and the Full Effect dropped off of the Warped Tour in the summer of 2006 to record a follow up to Songs Not to Get Married To with producer Sean Beavan. It was confirmed by a MySpace bulletin that Reggie would release the song "F Train" from his new album exclusively for 24 hours on his MySpace profile on October 31, 2006. The song is much heavier than his other releases, and is very reminiscent of James' former band Coalesce.

In July 2007, speculation of Reggie coming to an end began through a message posted on his MySpace page. Later on, James posted a new message confirming they had not broken up. However, soon afterward the official Reggie and the Full Effect Myspace page was taken down.

On April 8, 2008, Alternative Press announced that they had received details on the new album from Reggie and the Full Effect. The 12 song album is called Last Stop: Crappy Town and was produced by Sean Beavan. This album will be released on June 17, 2008 through Vagrant Records^[1]. In mid-April 2008, the band's myspace page was reactivated.

[edit] Band Story

In June 1988, a massive fire broke out at the infamous White Chocolate Studios. This was the home base for Reggie And The Full Effect. In the blaze, hundreds of master tapes were lost and Reggie became the main suspect in the fire. His mysterious disappearance, at the peak of his stardom, only heightened speculation of guilt. In the years to follow, many people became familiar with the music of Reggie And The Full Effect. Rumors also spread about Reggie and his alleged ties with the underworld.

Whatever stories floated in and out of the rumor mill, his followers always stayed loyal. Many of his fans started to report sightings. Newspapers covered the sightings, one week it was Los Angeles, another week it was Chicago, so on and so on... Reggie's popularity grew and grew. Though his records were out of print, his fans took it upon themselves to bootleg his music. He is now the fourth-most-bootlegged artist in the world. His fans have grown obsessive over him, and his unnamed enemies have grown more ominous.

Stories have surfaced about Reggie and his insatiable appetite for gambling. His enemies have launched a "Reggie Is Dead" campaign. In turn, fans have countered in support of their icon: their campaign -- "Reggie Lives". So much can be derived from these words. It has become a battle cry, a bumper sticker, and the slogan of a legend. It's truly nothing less than a worldwide phenomenon.

In February of 2000, the people at vagrant / heroes villains record label in Santa Monica, CA received a box of unmarked audiotapes. Two newly joined staff members stumbled upon the boxes early one Saturday morning on their way in to the head office. Within those boxes they found the story of a man and his music.