Dapper Jones was formed in 1999 by singer and guitarist Steve Bergstrom. Shortly thereafter Steve recruited childhood friend and fellow guitarist Kent Button. In 2000 Steve and Kent met drummer Jon Connolly.  The band played with a number of bass players for the next six years until they landed bassist Josh Kerns.

Both Steve and Jon are veterans of the Seattle music scene and both actively played in bands during the Seattle flannel bonanza.  Josh is an 80’s LA punk scene transplant. Kent plays air guitar in the shower.  This combined experience has made for outstanding live shows.

Over the years Dapper Jones has played nearly every club in the Northwest. While they cannot boast that they played with Nirvana, Mudhoney, or even Seattle’s own Kenny G, they can proclaim that they  have made their place within the beer soaked Seattle underground scene with their two fisted outlook.

The band avoids the worst writing cliché’s of today’s current music scene. Easy and inane topics such as time, fire, underage girls, unicorns, and band virility are taboo.  Songwriting prefers to focus on social qirks, beer, strange animal behaviors and a distain of the travel industry.

Dapper Jones has been heavily influenced from such bands as the Pixies, Fugazi, Flogging Molly, X, and Sunny Day Real Estate. While keeping with these roots, they are fiercely unapologetic about walls of guitars, precise drums, melodic vocals and a moving baseline.

The band’s newest effort ”Wërkenstien” continues on with an unabashed rock-and-roll commitment.  Tube amps drive hard, the vocals pop, the bass sounds like a bass, and the drums are the next best thing to leaning up against the stage. The album is raw, full of emotion, and captures the eternal quirky nature of this band.

Pub(licity) shot - Pac Inn, Seattle
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Tracking yet another guitar part..