After taking over a year off to work on a
solo album, singer/songwriter David White
was eager to get
the Glorious Dregs going again. He enlisted Matthew and Dean to join
Johnny and him just as the global financial crisis was hitting full stride
last fall. Gathering to practice in the surreal environment of weekly
bailouts, plummeting stock markets and exploding deficits, a new direction
slowly emerged for the band.
In their discussions before and after practice, they noted with disbelief
that many of those who predicted this crisis were dismissed and ignored
while so-called experts who were blindsided, never had their expertise
called into question and were now entrusted to “fix the economy”. David and
the rest of the band wondered when or if sanity would ever prevail when the
political class peddles the nonsensical notion that America can borrow and
spend its way into prosperity. With the national debt well over 11 trillion
dollars, the Federal Reserve printing trillions more and the inescapable
reality of higher taxes and inflation on the horizon,
the Glorious
Dregs realized that business as usual was no longer an option. If this
meant the band needed to change focus and become “political”, well, so be
it.
However, changing direction has been a major challenge. With much of the
back catalog declared obsolete, the band had to come up with new material at
an accelerated pace. They have been busy educating themselves, writing new
songs, learning covers and in some cases, rewording them. They are currently
in the beginning stages of recording some of this new material, which they
will let trickle out through
MySpace and
perhaps
YouTube before compiling an album.
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David - vocal / guitar |
Johnny - drums |
Matthew - bass guitar |
Dean - guitar / vocal |
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