Dead Ringer

Guitarist Ron Rennells and his vocalist/wife Kathleen Frasca formed Deceased Ringer in 1995. Since that time, the Hollywood, CA-based quartet offers continuing to resurrect the vocal jazz custom from the 1930s to ’60s. Affected from the melodic jazz playing lately guitarist Wes Montgomery, the group has generated an ultra-smooth but swinging audio. In her liner records for the group’s second recording, Father Music, released in 2001, Jill Manning stated that Deceased Ringer is definitely “area of the Mancini era…thus hip they’re within the fringe of squaredom….a love refrain for hipsters.” Deceased Ringer represents the most recent in some career movements by Missouri-born Rennels, who shaped his first music group a lot more than three years previously. After dealing with many Midwest groups, like the punk music group the Resistors, he transferred to LA in 1978 to wait your guitar Institute of Technology. A indigenous of Hollywood, Frasca spent a lot of the past due-’70s and early ’80s in Britain, where she composed, designed, and released an underground pop fanzine, Wow Newspaper — The International Kathy Enthusiast Membership, for eight years. The initial lineup, which performed their leading gig at Hollywood’s farmers’ marketplace, has experienced many personnel adjustments. Founding bass participant Tag Marquardt was changed by Marty Buttwinick, who was simply changed by Joe Plutschow soon after the release from the band’s debut record, Atomic Cocktail, in past due 1997. The group released Father Music four years afterwards. Dead Ringer has already established a continuing gig executing every Sunday night time at Jax’s Club and Barbeque grill in Glendale, CA.