Face Dancer

A music group whose music and background are both fraught with contradictions, Encounter Dancer germinated their seed products at the College or university of Rhode Isle circa 1974, but would ultimately lay out root base in Washington, D.C., where they present a much bigger college rock and roll scene wanting to view their vast and frequently conflicting affects bloom. These affects ranged from the blue-collar toughness of basic hard rock and roll towards the artsy ambitions of progressive rock and roll (actually, their name was motivated by Frank Herbert’s Dune books — not really some base intimate reference…well, probably both), as well as the chart-oriented hooks of power pop. Multiple lineup adjustments and countless two-bit gigs ultimately paved the best way to a agreement with Capitol Information, sending bandmembers Carey Kress (vocals), Jeff Adams (business lead electric guitar), David Utter (tempo electric guitar), Scott McGinn (bass), and Costs Trainor (drums) out to LA to record their initial album, This Globe, with experienced manufacturer Richie Smart (Kiss, Savoy Dark brown, etc.). The ensuing songs were able to estimate everyone from Poor Company to Inexpensive Technique to Queen towards the Knack towards the Bay Town Rollers as well as the Beatles, but despite climbing to amount 35 in the Billboard graphs, none from the album’s singles latched to radio airwaves countrywide. Capitol Information also seemed uncertain as to how exactly to market this eclectic music group, which would get rid of both Kress and Utter soon after documenting its sophomore LP, About Encounter, in 1980, before soldiering on with brand-new singer and key pad participant Mike Milsap. All of this was to no get, though, and after getting slipped by Capitol and alienating their Baltimore-area faithful using a softer brand-new direction, Encounter Dancer finally surface to a halt by 1983. A patchwork lineup would reassemble in 1990 to record an unbiased (and intensely uncommon) third record entitled Midnite Raid, and another still created 2003’s Alive concert record, but, like Encounter Dancer’s sporadic on-stage reunions over time, these have enticed the interest of only a little cadre of supporters, mostly dating back again to the unfulfilled guarantee of their Capitol Information early days.