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| Unlike their name, The Ladies & Gentlemen do not feature any ladies in the band, yet the all-male group can certainly not be described as “gentlemen” either. What they do feature is blasts of hook-filled new wave power pop songs that clock in under 3 minutes! Formed out of the ashes of venerable Chicago stalwarts Box-O-Car, singer/songwriter Skid Marks brought aboard ex-Material Issue drummer Mike Zelenko, ex-Verbow bass player Lennie Deitsch and Lennie and Skid’s friend Scott Ramsayer to play synthesizer. Ex Box-O-Car guitar player Ken Sluiter also remains involved as much as possible despite his move to Los Angeles in August of 2004. “Getting a synth player was crucial to separate our sound from the traditional 2 guitars, bass, drums line-up”, says Marks. “In Box-O-Car we loved The Cars, Adam and the Ants, Human League, etc., but we never quite fully distilled that sound like we have in The Ladies & Gentlemen and I feel it’s definitely due to having Scott on board. The cool thing is that I don’t think we sound retro at all… I like to think of us as ‘new’ new-wave. My vision for The Ladies & Gentlemen is simple: We’re a rock band that makes people wanna shake their ass!” Having started recording in April of 2004, Marks hopes to have to have their first full length album out in Jan/Feb of 2005. For more information, visit their website: http://www.theladiesandgentlemen.com
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