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Reggie And The Full Effect
Biography
Reggie and the Full Effect combine infectious melodies, sappy love songs, good-natured yet offbeat slyness, and comic sensibility like virtually no other "band" before them. Reggie albums are full of skits, hooky pop songs, and chunky guitar playing that appeal to fans of punk rock, emo, and hardcore alike. There are two sides to the Reggie and the Full Effect story. One is fictitious and humorous -- the tale of a bluesman named Reggie who vanished at the height of his career, and whose lost "White Chocolate Studios" recordings were recently unearthed and dropped at the doorstep of a couple of independent record labels. The other is the real story. Reggie is actually the Get Up Kids' keyboard player and former Coalesce drummer James Dewees, making records on which he plays all of the instruments.

The project began during some downtime for Coalesce. Dewees recorded a batch of songs starting with the drums first, building them all the way up on his own. Occasionally, members of the Get Up Kids would drop by the Kansas City studio to participate, but for the most part, the songs contained on Reggie's albums are solely of Dewees' creation. Second Nature Recordings released the first album, playfully titled Greatest Hits 1984-1987, in 1998.