Artist description Dopey Lopes is Original All-American Rock & Roll Music. David Lopes is a 1999 and 2000 ASCAP Plus Award Winner.

Music Style Original All - American Rock & Roll

Musical Influences Bowie, Kiss, Paul Westerberg, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley, All 70's pop, All 80's Hair Bands, Most Rock and Roll Acts!!

Similar Artists Agent Orange, The Neighborhoods, Replacements, Kiss, Bowie, Springsteen,

Artist History David "Dopey" Lopes got his start back in the thriving Providence, R.I. club scene that existed in the late 1980's. He was the principle songwriter for "Two Guys and Another Guy" one of the Providence Area's Seminal bands, influencing and affecting a slew of bands. His song "Life's Harsh Reality" is perhaps the most covered song ever by a local artist in the New England area!! Yet, still David Lopes thrives as a songwriter and performer now based out of New York City, and working under his assumed stage name of "Dopey Lopes". His 1998 release "Welcome to the Mental Stadium" met with excellent college radio airplay and he is following it up in 1999 with a breakthrough record to be called "Love Songs about Rock and Roll". Stay Tuned!!!

Group Members Dopey Lopes- Guitar and Lead VocalsRob George- Lead GuitarJared Nixon- Bass, Backing VocalsChris Gorman- DrumsTracy Johnson- Vocals, Backing VocalsEric "The Whip" Fontana andSteven Cirelli- Keyboards

Instruments Guitar, Bass and Drums, Keys, Male and Female Vocals

Albums Forthcoming Release "Love Songs About Rock and Roll" to be followed by "The Irrepressable Dopey Lopes" a follow up EP

Press Reviews "...Lopes is nothing if not tenacious, writing every song as if it's his defining anthem and- occasionally coming up with one." The Providene Phoenix, June 12, 1998"... The EP has a self effacing endearing quality , and you have to give Lopes some props for never being a bandwagon-hopper- no mean feat in a fad-soaked genre." Michael Caito, The Providence Phoenix, June 12 1998

Location New York, NY - USA

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