But Dennard isn't so interested in finding the hottest, newest thing anymore. Kahn and Gomez have been brought together this late March evening by David Dennard, the man responsible for releasing the first albums by Tripping Daisy and Hagfish on his Dragon Street Records label earlier this decade. That's right: Dude and Juvey were, at one time, members of Vincent's be-bop-a-lula Blue Caps, keeping time for one of the few musicians worthy of being called Legend. They're musicians for whom keeping the beat is a lifelong occupation, professional musicians ever since they were teenagers in the late 1950s.Īnd once upon a time, Dude and Juvey were real-life rock-and-rollers who drummed for one of the greatest of all the bad boys, a cat named Gene Vincent. The two men could not look more dissimilar, yet they're very much alike: Both make their living drumming in ballroom bands, paying the rent by playing private parties and society balls. Juvey Gomez is short and unassuming, clad in a sport coat and a tie he is gray and almost bald, and he wears thin, tinted glasses. But these are real people and their real names: Dude Kahn is tall and imposing, wearing short sleeves and blue jeans his hair is dark and only slightly thinning, and his voice is deep and rumbling, like a distant thunderstorm. Dude and Juvey-even now, their names sound made-up, like characters in some B-grade, blackboard-jungle teen exploitation film made in 1958 they would have played slicked-back bad boys, leather-clad rockers, rebels without a.well, you know.
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