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Roscoe's Basement
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A rock 'n' roll band that practices underneath a dog. Tweets by @jackfeerick.bsky.social. More at https://godocent.com/pin/roscoesbasement
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Wishing you the spookiest of spooky seasons
October 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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#ROC peeps: Our heaviest gig season has wound down, but we are open for business and booking shows on a limited basis for the fall and winter! If you run a venue or have an event coming up, scan the QR code to learn more or email one.band.under.dog@gmail.com

#RochesterNY #LiveMusic #RochesterMusic
Promo image of the band with the slogan "Power Pop For the People" and our emal A QR code that will, when scanned, take you to our landing page on GoDocent
October 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Waking the ghosts
Deanna and Kevin, both deeply washed in blue Jack at center, with Tom visible at left and Lanay visible at right Lanay holding it down, playing her white Yamaha superstrat, a hardtail with two humbuckers. She's wearing jeans and a sleeveless top, and her guitar strap has a graphic of the manga-style caricature of David Bowie from the cover of REALITY. She is mostly in shadow and looking straight ahead with a neutral expressio, effortlessly the coolest motherfucker in the room. Tom behind the drumkit. There's a floor light shining on the kick, which is plastered with our logo. His drum shells are white, and he's playing with multi-rod drumsticks -- an alternative to brushes made with bundled dowels. He wears sunglasses, jeans, and black T-shirt with a graphic of a skeleton lying back in an inner tube, with the slogan LIFE WAS GOOD.
October 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Hot night in spookytown
The band onstage at the Argyle Grill at Eagle Vale Golf Club, bathed in glaring multicolored light. L-R: Deanna singing and playing bongos; Kevin playing lead guitar; Tom on drums; Jack playing bass and singing; Lanay on rhythm guitar. Deanna, deep in a bongo groove, eyes closed, a beatific expression emphasized by the white light that bathes her head and shoulders, turning her hair to a halo. She wears jeans, a long-sleeved black T-shirt, and a silver pendant in the abstract shape of a horse's head. Jack, head down and jamming away fingerstyle. The green glow of the stage lights makes his yellow button-down shirt read as white, his red jacquard waistcoat read as black; he also wears a necktie, a rainbow sweatband on his picking wrist, a black newsboy cap, sunglasses, baggy trousers, and purple Chuck Taylors. His bass is a black long-scale Dean, the logo covered with duct tape, with a single soapbar pickup. The body is decorated with two large decals of playing cards -- an ace of spades over a jack of diamonds, twenty-one to win. Kevin at the back, partly obscured by the drumkit, playing a modified Fender Strat in Tropical Turquoise with pearloid pickguard, hot-pink knobs, and humbuckers, running into a Bugera amp. He's wearing jeans and a plain red T-shirt, with moderately long hair. He's lightly washed in pink from the stage lights, which are visibly reflected in the decativated big-screen TV that hang above his head. He is the picture of casual cool.
October 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Trump take pedalboard
Email from a European guitar pedal manufacturer explaining that it is suspending its current giveaway contest because of the current embargo against the United States.
August 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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There's new images and video up at our FB page, too, what with the heltering and the skeltering and whatnot
August 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Post-show, post-shower. I'm not just the president -- I'm also a client!
Shot from below, Jack -- a large white man with a shaved head, a trim white beard, and half-framed eyeglasses -- throws the horns at the camera. He is wearing a dark grey T-shirt with the Roscoe's Basement logo and the slogan "One Band, Under Dog"
August 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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SATURDAY SET LIST (cryptic edition)

I want to get people stoked for this weekend's show, but I also don't want to give too much away -- so I've given all the songs code names
A handwritten list of 16 coded phrases Cover Me Daisy, Daisy Jacky Wilson Said... Astronomy Smoke 'em If You Got 'em A Lad In Denim Higher Ground Three Little Words Tell It Like It Is Holding Back the Years Too Much, Man Rubbed the Wrong Way Let's Get Lost ...And He Shall Appear Spicy Get Cooking
June 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Happy birthday to the mighty Kevin Klapka, lead guitarist and handsomest man on any stage we play
The man of the hour, rockin' the fuck out
May 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Many happy returns to the man behind the skins, the heartbeat of Roscoe's Basement, Tom Finn. Happy birthday, king; long may you reign on your throne.
Tom in action, 2016, in the front room of the Bug Jar A blurry photo of Tom in his natural habitat -- behind the drums in the basement. Tom, all cleaned up and smiling for his promo picture.
May 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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That time I stacked a bunch of EBow tracks into a pop song, trying to bootstrap the sound of a string quartet but accidentally wound up with Frippertronics
May 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Richard Thompson just posted this amazing photo on Facebook from some point in the mid-1980s. Details in the alt text -- but my God, the clothes!!
An event celebrating the launch of the Hank Marvin Signature Fender Stratocaster. Left to right: Stuart Adamson from Big Country, in a gaudy sweater and parachute pants; Hal Lindes from Dire Straits in leather trou, fisherman's sweater and barn jacket; Fnder exec Dan Smith; Eric Clapton, in an eye-gouging pop-art sweater; Fender exec John Hill; Fender exec Bill Schultz; Hank Marvin of the Shadows; Jeff Beck in leather jacket, white cargo pants, and scarf; David Gilmour; also scarved; Steve Howe; and poor Richard Thompson, who's got his eyes closed in the picture.
April 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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That rules me out, I'm afraid; I'm semi-solid at best, mostly soft tissues, viscous fluids, and ball joints
Craigslist ad headline: Band in Need for a Solid Bass Player!
April 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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March 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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I'm like a stepping razor, don't you watch my size
I'm dangerous (albeit mostly to myself)
Seen from above and to the side, Jack has an inch-long scrape over the left temple of his freshly shaven head.
March 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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GREAT MOMENTS IN STAGE BANTER: The New York Dolls at the Minnesota State Fair, 1974. Farewell, David Johansen.

(from TROUBLE BOYS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE REPLACEMENTS, by Bob Mehr)
...in the summer of 1974... the New York Dolls made an appearance at the Minnesota State Fair, playing the Teen Stage in support of their Mercury records debut. The band was late getting to the show, stuck in traffic, as the crowd -- which included many future players in the local punk and indie rock scene -- waited eagerly. When the Dolls finally arrived onstage, singer David JOhansen took tk the microphone, looked out over the fair -- still very much a rural, farm-based event -- and chided, in his gravelly Staten Island accent, "What I really want to know is: Who won da pie-eatin' contest?"
March 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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January 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Gong xi fa cai! Wishing you all a joyful and prosperous Year of the Snake!
Kurt Russell as war hero turned master criminal Snake Plissken. You thought he was dead.
January 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Twenty-three years gone and it still hurts.
Stuart Adamson of the Skids and Big Country
December 16, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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The notes tend to be pretty cryptic, mostly shorthand for my idiosyncratic work methods. Take a look at the notes in made in 2022 for "Gun Shy," which I finally finished this year and put up on my SoundCloud a couple weeks ago...
Another notebook page, formatted like the one in the previous tweet, but with notes in the right-hand column. Next to the title "Gun Shy" are the following phrases: MARQUEE - Babylon fix-up - lyric - fretless
December 13, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Setting goals for the year to come
A dime-store composition notebook lies open to a page headlined 2025 - PIPELINE - 2025. The page is divided into two columns. Down the left-hand side is written a list of song titles; the right column is currently blank. Song titles include: Big Talker Blackjack Betty Blue Remembered Hills Colossus Come High Water Foxes Humbucker I'd Rather Be Down and Out I'm Gonna Miss You It Ain't Country Marilyn By Moonlight Sack Full of Secrets Shadow She Sang All the Time Son of a Son of the Soil Summer People Tears Before You Run Trouble Brewing Union Fair We Who Love the Sun West of the Moon
December 13, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Weird that I should be having trouble getting this synced, right
December 10, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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When I use the AKG for vocals, I'll use the bedroom closet as a makeshift booth; the flat response on the mic and the dead space allow some nuance. (I'm not a particularly nuanced singer, so I don't need it often. It's nice to have the option, though!)
The interior of a clothes closet. A desktop mic stand hangs upside-down from a wire shelving organizer, with a large-diaphragm AKG condenser microphone attached. The space around and behind the microphone is loaded with folded woolen sweaters, sweatshirts, and denim jeans. More clothes hang on the racks to either side.
November 21, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Work in progress.
November 12, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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This is violence on a fundamental level. My human rights have been violated; everyone involved with this needs to go to the Hague RIGHT NOW
Facebook notice of a gig by WEIRD PHISHES, a "mash-up of Radiohead and Phish"
November 8, 2024 at 5:47 PM