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Low quality, raw footage of 'Rustic Overtones' show featuring Dave Gutter. Second night of a sold out, two night show. First performance over five years since the break-up. Recorded live at Asylum nightclub in Portland, Maine on July 29,2007.
Rustic Overtones started out in the early 1990s as a three-piece cover band known as Aces Wild with Dave Gutter, Jon Roods, and then-drummer and close friend Matthew Esty, playing small bars. This lineup produced the very rare "Smile" album. The Rustic Overtones gained popularity during the mid to late 1990s in the Portland, Maine music scene, although they had many self-financed tours throughout the country, mostly the northeastern states. After the release of their 1998 album Rooms by the Hour, major record label Arista signed the band spurred on by then president Clive Davis. Arista hired legendary producer Tony Visconti to produce what became the 2001 release, Viva Nueva!. However, after disagreements with the label, and a shakeup at Arista that saw their primary suppoter, Clive Davis, depart, the record deal fell through. They were shortly afterwards picked up by Tommy Boy, and released Viva Nueva! in 2001. However, Tommy Boy dissolved shortly after the release of the album, once again leaving the Overtones without a record label. The disappointment of two major record deals falling through proved too much for the band members, and they went their separate ways in 2002. Their "final" preformance was a three-hour show at the State Theater on May 11th, 2002.
In early spring of 2007, drummer Tony McNaboe took the initiative to begin the process of reuniting the band. According to lead singer Dave Gutter, McNaboe called each former member separately, and told each that everyone else had already agreed to a reunion. In May 2007, Tony McNaboe, Spencer Albee, and Jon Roods made a surprise announcement on Portland's WCYY that the entire band did indeed plan to reunite, and were in the process of scheduling local reunion shows. On May 29th, they announced that they would play two reunion shows at Portland club "The Asylum," one on July 28th, 2007 and another on July 29th. In addition, after a month of rumors and gossip, the band also announced that they had been working on a new album of previously unreleased material and newly written music, which will be released in late July 2007 coinciding with the two reunion shows. The album is to be released independently, due to the band's past frustration with dealing with record labels. |
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