Southern punk rockers The Dexateens' original lineup haven't played a lick together in 23 years.
The Dexateens' original lineup includes Craig Pickering , Elliott McPherson and Matt Patton, along with Craig Gates and John Smith . “We’re going that many years with no practice and just gonna jump right into it,” McPherson said. “Hopefully it’ll be magical and not a trainwreck. But if it’s a trainwreck, it’ll still be a magical trainwreck, I’m sure. So I just want it to sound good. I want people to have a good time and feel like they’re getting a good show.
With Patton going back and forth between the group and the Truckers, that left McPherson picking up the pieces with new members likeThe different iterations, the live shows, the recording — all of it has created distance from any would-be lingering “drama.” McPherson said Patton didn’t give the rest of them much of a choice. “I remember he just started talking about, like, ‘This is what we were doing.’ I don’t think he asked anybody’s permission, which is fine. If it was a problem, we wouldn’t have done it. It was a good idea,” McPherson said. “I talk to Sweet Dog now a couple of times a year. I connected with Craig Gates again this year. And we’ve been friends all this time. It’s not that we weren’t friends. It’s just life, as they say.
“Hearing that first Dexateens album, knowing something that f---ing rocking could come from Tuscaloosa,” Hick said. “I know they’re all nice dudes now, but I remember being so — “intimidated” is probably the wrong word, but so worried I would mess up around all these super-cool people. And it turns out they were like anybody else. They were just dudes who liked to rock.”
They haven’t played a lick in 23 years. Not one. At least, not together. And they don’t plan to practice before Saturday either. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have a plan. Patton said that several years before they ever signed a deal, they had another set of songs that don’t get played very often. They plan to at least give those songs a shot this time. “I’m excited about putting that version back on stage, playing first tunes we came up with,” he said.
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