Deadeye Dick

Authors from the collegiate novelty strike “MODERN Young lady,” Deadeye Dick present themselves quickly consigned to substitute rock’s one-hit question bin. Shaped in New Orleans in 1991, the music group contains vocalist/guitarist Caleb Guillotte, bassist Tag Miller, and drummer Billy Landry, and got their name from a Kurt Vonnegut book. Playing a college-friendly make of fresh wave-inspired acoustic guitar pop, Deadeye Dick constructed a pursuing by touring the Southeast, and self-produced an album’s well worth of materials before they’d got a record offer. Among its tunes, the hippie-chick satire “MODERN Lady,” became regionally well-known and gained some radio airplay in New Orleans and Atlanta. That achievement led to a list cope with the impartial Ichiban label, even more known because of its spirit and blues catalog than option rock and roll. Ichiban gave a broad release towards the group’s debut recording, A Different Tale, in 1994, and “MODERN Lady” was chosen for inclusion around the soundtrack from the smash humor Dumb and Dumber. It became a nationwide strike late that 12 months, climbing in to the pop Best 30 and getting almost ubiquitous on university and option radio. Catchy since it was, the song’s novelty laughter experienced many pegging Deadeye Dick mainly because flashes within the pan, as well as the follow-up singles, “Ideal Family members” and “Marguerite,” had been virtually ignored. Another recording, the somewhat rootsier Whirl, premiered in 1995, but fulfilled with an identical destiny, and Deadeye Dick disbanded. Guillotte and Miller continued to be active on the neighborhood New Orleans picture as producers.