"With these recent song placements in TV shows, Gentlemen Afterdark are finally on the receiving end of a few mainstream kisses," Smith says. There was that attention they got in 1984 when People magazine featured Gentlemen AfterDark in a story called "Stars of the Future."Ĭhances are, they didn't mean the distant future. "No matter how they use ‘Dark Rooms’ in 'Hit-Monkey' (I haven’t seen the show), it blows my mind the song has anything to do with Marvel comics or television or streaming, or any kind of attention," Smith says. It was one of many songs gathering dust in a shoebox, Smith says - until a few years back when Fervor reached out and bought almost everything in the Gentlemen Afterdark catalog. In their live show, "Dark Rooms" was "a chance to catch our breaths," Smith says, "Slow and spontaneous, more Roxy Music than anything we were into." "We almost didn’t do it - it had no real arrangement, no written-down lyrics it was mainly a groove with ad-libbed vocals mixed in, but with a lovely alto sax part throughout, which my brother Barry played." “The song ‘Dark Rooms’ really was an afterthought on those recordings," Smith recalls. They did have a great, "super-young band" at that point, he says, with drummer Winston Watson, bassist Fred Cross, guitarist Robin Johnson, Smith on vocals and his brother Barry on assorted instruments.Īnd they had major-label interest after a People Magazine spread and the vinyl EP they recorded with Cooper and Wagner.
"No record deal, no money, living out of each other’s pockets, playing clubs to survive, recording on someone else’s dime." Smith says they recorded the song in 1984 at Chaton Recorders in Scottsdale and released it on a five-song, cassette-only EP. More Gentlemen AfterDark: How 'Stranger Things' revived the career of an '80s band from Phoenix
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Fervor has placed “Dark Rooms” on the Marvel series "Hit-Monkey," which began streaming on Wednesday, Nov.
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