The Danglers
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The Danglers

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The best kept secret in music

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Discography

1999 - Fauk Kack - EP
2000 - The Danglers - full length album
2002 - We Had Heaven - EP
2005 - (soon to be released)
Various tracks have recieved airplay on area college stations.

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Combine a violinist and upright bassist that met just before dropping out of their college orchestras with a drummer that learned that craft from years of jazz and traditional music enthusiasm and a keyboardist that got his music degree studying 20th century classical, and take into account the common factor that all of them cut their chops playing in high school heavy metal bands, and you get The Danglers. You have never heard a violinist play like Jason Loveall. Forget the token (usually pretty female) violinist that plays "twee twee to loo" and sounds like they've never even heard of a distortion pedal, forget the soulless 70's fusion of Jean Luc Ponty, and forget the simplistic out of tuneness of what's-his-name from The Dirty Three. Loveall conjures spirits and blazes trails with his playing. Gelting alternately attacks and makes love to his upright bass, taking it all the way from warm mellow bass lines to fuzzed out echo laden cacophony. Sparrow has the fastest drum roll one can imagine (was that Buddy Rich you just thought of?) and drives the band with tasteful displays of virtuosity. Matt Long pulls the essence of psycedalia out of his synths while being a walking encyclopedia of what seems like every chord progression and song written in the past century. And their songwriting and renditions of covers pays homage to, while not blandly regurgitating, the gods of the pantheon of rock. Not only to hear, but also to see these unlikely characters making such heavy music is a not soon forgotten treat for all who witness.