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Vinnie and the Stardüsters guitarist Eric Dregni and singer/bassist John Perkins met as teenagers on a church trip. They bonded, said Dregni, because "John, at that time, had a knack for profanity and I was very impressed by that." By the end of the long bus ride to Appalachia the two had plotted to form their first band.
It's fitting that the origins of the Twin Cities band go back to junior high. The band is adolescent geek-boy energy taken to the extreme-teenage guys making up dirty lyrics to popular songs in the back seat of the school bus-only now they're are all grown up and made dangerous by the fact that they have guitars, microphones and college degrees.
Dregni and Perkins had already formed Vinnie and the Stardüsters when they met drummer Nick Perkins at Macalester College. The group started as a parody lounge act, went through a brief...