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River City Rebels
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The River City Rebels are a punk/rock & roll band based in White River Junction, Vermont. The band has a long and detailed history, clouded with many line up changes over the years. They began as a ska band called The SKAtenders and the line-up consisted of:
The last songs they wrote were titled "Fuck You" and "We Will Fight" which both later became River City Rebels songs. Shortly after this they changed the band name and direction they were heading in musically. There was some tinkering in the line up before the band made their first formal recording under the new band name.
This line-up then recorded their first 2 songs "Military Attitude" and "That's the Way". These recordings were released on a split 7" with the last 2 SKAtenders songs on the flip side. Scandal Records, based in New Jersey, released the split on July 4, 2000. Meanwhile, Victory Records owner Tony Brummel was won over by the band's impressive live show and signed them to 5 album contract. Their first release titled Racism, Religion, and War... came on August 29, 2000. The album contained 14 short, energetic punk rock songs including the fan favorites "Hate", "Fuck You" and "The System". Guitarist Dan O'Day continued to be the band's primary songwriter along with his then girlfriend Bridget Jones, who wrote the lyrics for "Hate" and several other songs. This album again featured a different line-up and saw former vocalist Chris Jukosky return to the band on bass:
Shortly after, this same line up released a new song titled "Life of a Rebel" on the first of a series of compilations put out by Duane Peters titled Old Skars & Upstarts. This version has since become very rare as it was later recorded with more polished production and a different vocalist. August 21, 2001 saw the release of RCR's second disc titled Playin' to Live, Livin' to Play. This release had a more rock and roll vibe to it and saw the band's biggest hit to date in "Small Town Pride" as well as "6 AM", the aforementioned re-recorded version of "Life of a Rebel" as well as a cover of The Ramones classic "53rd & 3rd". Line-up changes were again prevalent with vocalist Ward Aimi quitting the band to join the army and guitarist Gabe Rich becoming a priest. Dan McCool relinquished his trumpet duties to become the band's third vocalist:
Shortly after this, a demo version of a new Rebels track titled "No Good" was released on a Victory Records compilation. This was the fans first taste of Dan O'Day, the long time songwriter of the group, on vocals. With the band's third disc titled No Good, No Time, No Pride released on October 8, 2002, the band once again changed direction musically. Having finally finished college, the band was able to take the act on the road and the experiences clearly brought the band to the next level. The album produced such live staples as "Drunken Angel", "Such a Bore", "No Good" and "Life's a Drag". The album also featured guest appearances by Duane Peters and Kerry Martinez of the U.S. Bombs. Again the line-up underwent drastic changes. As mentioned earlier Dan O'Day was now the singer. In addition to this Drew Paley quit the band to join The Static Age. The line-up this time around:
Prior to the band's next release, they were scheduled to release an acoustic version of an old song titled "Daddy Was A Drunk" on Punk Goes Acoustic. However, Victory Records screwed them out of this in what was the start of a rocky relationship with the label they still owed 2 albums to. Their fourth album Hate To Be Loved was their most triumphant release to date. Produced by Sylvan Sylvan of New York Dolls fame, the album featured appearances by Vic Ruggerio (The Slackers), Lisa Fisher and Jesse Malin (D Generation). Released on September 21, 2004, the album produced such songs as "I'm So Vain", "Her New Man", "No Easy Way Out" and "Hate To Be Loved", among several other fantastic songs. The line-up for this record as well as the tongue-in-cheek stage names they created for themselves:
After the album's release and immediate success, the band filmed their fourth video for "Glitter & Gold" (the previous 3 being "Hate", "Small Town Pride" and "Life's A Drag"). Having gotten himself in the video and all the photo shoots, Chris Jukosky quit the band. The band enjoyed their success and were prominently featured in the Vans Warped Tour 2004 DVD titled Beyond Warped. Shortly thereafter the band made the decision to relocate to the West Coast and, feeling snubbed by the punk rock community, briefly considered changing their name to the Dead Flowers. This was an awkward period for the band as they found their fan base dwindling and more members quitting - Erik Schmidt joined The Ratchets and Rylan Perry and Jake quit as well. Eventually the band was dropped by Victory Records and they began recording their new album Keepsake Of Luck for a new label called Rolling Thunder Records. The line-up on this recording consisted of:
This album is supposedly the band's best material but has yet to be heard by the public. It has been recorded for over a year and a half but Rolling Thunder has still not released it due to distribution problems. This hiatus again lead to several members departing the band, this time in Patti Botox, Robbie Rebel and Tyler Murphy. When Rolling Thunder finally dropped the band and gave them their CD back, the Rebels quickly signed to Springman Records. Springman had previously released Dan O'Day's solo record titled Street Performance in October of 2006. They announced Keepsake Of Luck would FINALLY be released in the fall of 2007. The band hit the road again upon hearing this good news and began writing a new album, with a new line up yet again.
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