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Red Eyed Legends: Wake Up, Legend

It's kinda weird being a band these days, especially when you don't follow the prescribed "rules" of successful bandship, like: playing shows regularly and often, touring for months on end, hiring the "right" press person, orchestrating massive click-thrus to your Myspace page, pretending you like other bands that you actually don't, or following up your 2004 EP with a full-length sometime before 2008. You might actually just have to do it because you get off on the sound of your own seat-of-the-pants guitar playing, or you think your bandmates are funny, or one of them is also your weed connection, or some combination thereof.

Anyway that's what we'd like you to keep in mind as you interpret the sounds of the Red Eyed Legends' long awaited full-length release, "Wake Up, Legend."

There's no real gimmick or formula or new band smell. It's more or less the evolution of four vets of the Chicago, DC, and Omaha punk, postpunk, and garage scenes--still toying with funky guitars and beat-up organs and hissing amps, still inspired by some primitive drive to try and create something in the realm of rock 'n' roll that might provoke you to dance or cry or punch a wall.

If you ever wondered what happened to the singer from the Monorchid, or the guitar player from the Dishes, or the bass player from Cinco de Gatos*, or the drummer from the Submarine Races . . . oh, wait, they're still a band. Anyway, might we recommend the Red Eyed Legends? You won't be disappointed for long--like five minutes max.

* who has been replaced since recording with the bass player from White Savage

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Chris Thomson - vocals, guitar
Kiki Yablon - guitar, organ
Ryan Weinstein - bass (replaced Jason Dummeldinger, who plays on the record)
Paul John Higgins - drums

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