Reggie and the Full Effect
Reggie and the Full Effect was a Kansas City indie rock band, the solo project for The Get Up Kids keyboardist James Dewees. In the mid 1990s when he was still playing with Coalesce, Dewees recorded four songs on a cassette tape as a joke, and would hand them out at concerts. After giving one to Matt Pryor, he urged Dewees to contact Ed Rose to record the material. With Pryor's help, he recorded and released Reggie and the Full Effect's first... album Greatest Hits 1984-1987 in 1998 on Second Nature Recordings. In April 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 2003. This album contained the single Congratulations Smack and Katy, which would be the tune behind Reggie's first music video and appear in the video game Burnout 3: Takedown. Reggie's fourth studio album, Songs Not to Get Married To, was released on March 29, 2005. Most of the music from this album was inspired by the divorce Dewees went through with former wife Megan.
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