The Crimestoppers

ARRESTING ROCK AND BLUES

 

  
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The Crimestoppers have been playing rock n' roll and blues in the Washington, D.C. area since 1981 (yikes - 29 YEARS!)  Originally known as "Dick Tracy and the Crimestoppers," the band shortened its name at the urging of an unnamed lawyer-member of the ensemble, who experienced angst about potential copyright infringement litigation in anticipation of the release of the Madonna-Warren Beatty 'Dick Tracy' film.  The band played such fabled D.C. venues as The Gentry, Club Saba, The Roxy, the Wax Museum, Bosco's, the Psychedelly, Friendship Station, and Chaplin's.  And we're still going strong in the new century! 

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The Crimestoppers are now a 5 (sometimes 6  or 7) piece band playing lots of blues and rock 'n roll.  We cover such diverse groups and artists as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Jackson, Los Lobos, the Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, the Blasters, Neil Young, and Jimi Hendrix.  The band currently features Ed O'Connell (keyboards, guitar, vocals), Eric Nelson (drums, vocals), Lenny Stamm (guitar, vocals), Danny Jones (vocals, guitar),  and Kennedy Wright  (bass, vocals).  Occasionally the band is joined by either Eric Goldberg (guitar, bass, vocals), Barnaby Bristol (keyboards, vocals), Jamie MacKinnon (sax) or Scott Ramminger (sax, vocals)(pictured here - rocking at the crack of dawn at the Army Ten Miler Race at the Pentagon).  Check us out on YouTube playing a Canned Heat medley in the Woodstock tribute at Strathmore on 8/13/09 and Rockin' in the Free World, Cold Shot, and One More Saturday Night, at the Reston Town Center on 6/12/09 (with Jamie MacKinnon on sax)!  And here are some hot mp3s from that gig - I'm Goin' Down, If I, Confidence Man, Marie Marie, Caldonia, Sweet Home Chicago, and Don't Worry Baby (they will stream with quicktime), The Thrill is Gone from Bangkok Blues on 6/26/09 and My Baby's Gone from the Firehouse on 4/24/09.

some photos courtesy of Terry Brennan http://lifescenesphotography.smugmug.com/