Reggie and the Full Effect is an American rock band, the solo project of James Dewees, the former keyboardist for The Get Up Kids.
The lead single was for the song "Get Well Soon", and included a video chronicling the Loch Ness Monster struggling with a divorce, mirroring the album's themes.
[3] Reggie and the Full Effect dropped off of the Warped Tour in the summer of 2006 to record a follow-up to Songs Not to Get Married To with producer Sean Beavan.
[citation needed] In July 2007, speculation of Reggie coming to an end began through a message posted on his MySpace page.
A concept album about Dewees' drug addiction and subsequent rehab, it was originally to be self-titled Reggie and the Full Effect.
After a year and a half, Vagrant put the album in the hands of a new mixer, removed 3 tracks and released Last Stop: Crappy Town on June 17, 2008.
In that same interview, Dewees confirmed that he is currently writing a full album for his British electropop alter-ego "Fluxuation", one that had been rumored for some time.
At the end of the Farewell Tour, Dewees said, in the September 8, 2008 interview with Mishmash Magazine, that he will be "jumping right back into things" musically.
He confirmed the band would reunite for a one-off New Year's Eve performance on December 31, 2010, at the Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia.
[9] During the show, the band debuted a new dance-pop-influenced song entitled "Someone Please Tell Mark's Vagina to Shut Up", which was sung by Dewees as Fluxuation.
[clarification needed] They plan to be playing Reggie and the Full Effect, The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, and Pryor's solo material on this tour.
The tour began November 14 in San Diego where up until the day after Thanksgiving, the band performed in pilgrim costumes with Dewees as a cooked turkey.
[13] Dewees plays nearly every instrument on Reggie and the Full Effect recordings, including bass guitar, drums, and keyboards.
Fluxuation (who is reminiscent of artists from the new wave and New Romantic styles), and Common Denominator, a Finnish Metal band with more industrial learnings similar to that of Germany's Rammstein.
[citation needed] Reggie's lineup for live performances has always changed frequently, but often contained members of The Get Up Kids, Coalesce, The Esoteric, and My Chemical Romance – with whose projects Dewees has also collaborated.
Other members of the live show have included musicians from the bands Hot Rod Circuit, The Anniversary, From Autumn to Ashes, Ultimate Fakebook, Morning Again, Poison the Well, Shots Fired, and Slipknot.