Missed Out Music
Imperial Drag - wrong place at the wrong time?
Imperial Drag were far too hip for their time. You may know founding member Roger Manning Jr. from such groups as Jellyfish, The Moog Cookbook, a member of Beck's backing band and various other fantastic projects. With the diet-Nirvanas of 1996 chugging along strong, Roger Manning Jr's latest creation was destined to fail. Manning's previous band, Jellyfish, was a power-pop explosion and ripe for a three page “Missed Out Music” piece, but that's for another time.
After the demise of Jellyfish, Manning and singer Eric Dover decided to have a go at creating analog synth laden glam rock group. Imperial Drag's self-titled debut did not deserve all the negative reviews it got at the time. It was not angst ridden, it did not preach about killing your parents and it did not make you feel like blowing your classmates away. Instead, Imperial Drag sang of astrology, androgyny, playboys and overnight sensations. Taking a cue from Sweet, Badfinger, Redd Kross and maybe even the Partridge Family, Imperial Drag tapped into a dead genre with very solid results for the mid-nineties.
Roger Manning Jr. is currently working with Jason Falkner and Redd Kross' Brian Reitzell on a new wave inspired band called TV Eyes.
STREAM: Imperial Drag – Boy or a Girl
Posted by Joe Roth on Mar 18, 2008 @ 12:00 am
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