Dopey Lopes: Press

GET DOPEY...Rocker Dopey Lopes and his band will celebrate a new experience Saturday at the Corner Pocket, 501 Boston Post Road, Orange. Lopes, who’s been performing around the country and mostly in the Northeast for over 20 years, has never played the New Haven area. His band features bassist Jared Nixon and drummer Mike Neckritz, who are both Orange natives. This will be both guys’ first hometown show. The concert starts at 9 p.m.

Dopey Lopes "Welcome to the Mental Stadium" Potters Field Records.
The punchy rock rhythym of burnout is enough to get you tapping your foot and noddin your head. The lyrics are well written and fit the Rock/Pop/Punk sound...

LOPES is nothing if not tenacious, writing every song as if it's his defining anthem and occasionally coming up with one. This CD from the same label which brought us two fine Cutler discs is loaded with credible players (Freddy Abong, Rob George, Mike "Stumpy" Neckritz, Tommy Tenz, Peter Breen, Tripod Cats frontman Ray Memery) all along for the big gig in Lopes' recognizable power-chord Stadium, where Westerberg is still God and Paul Stanley is Saint Peter at least. How well it works is entirely up to your moodswing, but the CD has a self-effacing, endearing quality, and you have to give New-Yorker-via-South-County Lopes some props for never being a bandwagon-hopper no mean feat in a fad-soaked genre.