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The Roadducks won a Washington Area Music Award for this album in 1988...."Best" Debut Album in Wahington D.C...
"Wammie" Winners:
-1985 to 2006 Alphabetical List:
*Pat McGee Band 1997 ROCK - ROCK/POP DUO/GROUP
*Placido Domingo 2002 CLASSICAL VOCAL SOLOIST
*Roadducks 1988 General Awards Debut Album
Get Ducked
*Roberta Flack 1996 General Awards HALL OF FAME
**Ron Holloway 2002 JAZZ INSTRUMENTALIST
**Ron Holloway 2003 JAZZ INSTRUMENTALIST
**Ron Holloway 2004 JAZZ INSTRUMENTALIST
*Nighthawks **(Mark Wenner) 1989 General Awards Hall of Fame
*Nils Lofgren 2003 ROCK RECORDING
(*)- Other "Wammie" Award Winners
(**)- Played on Roadducks Album

Warning: You are in Severe Danger of going straight to Hell if you Listen to this song.....and you WILL BE Damned to at least purgatory... if you ever BUY a copy of this song.....I have never heard anything more disgusting or perverse..... it could have been Caligula's Theme song....BeelzaBub must have had a hand in the writing of this song...Putrifying.....pure FUN....

(EXCERPT of full article from Washington Post))....Since the movie theater went out of business in 1979, the space that's now Jaxx has had five different names, but the thread throughout has been Nedry's band, the Roadducks, a southern-rock cover band nearly 30 years old that's rocked the place in its every incarnation. Nedry, the Roadducks' drummer, booked the place on and off for several years in the early '90s before finally taking it over himself in 1996. Now his band plays there a couple of times a month, usually opening for a national act , and that is when Jaxx is at its best, with Roadducks fans cheering on the band, pumping their fists in rock salutes and hollering as loudly as they can.

The only one of the five clubs I'm talking about here that's outside the Beltway, Jaxx caters to all kinds of folks, but if you were to describe the prototypical Jaxx patron, it would be a Roadducks fan. He might look like the guy I saw there watching them play earlier this year after a set by Leslie West (remember Leslie West? In Mountain? "Mississippi Queen" was his big hit about 30 years ago). This fella had on an old Harley jacket and a backward baseball cap holding down his brown mullet. He had a mustache and was about 45, drinking a bottle of Budweiser and chatting up Kimmie at the bar......"

It's true that the sound and lights at Jaxx are probably much more than most young bands have seen. From the ceiling of the old theater space, there's a criss-cross scaffolding of lights, both sophisticated and over-the-top. There's an enormous console beside the sound board just for running the lights. The sound system is huge, too, with speakers stacked on both sides of the stage, a few more hanging from the ceilings and rows of monitor speakers for the bands.

The old movie seats have been taken out, so there's a front dance floor area, where most of the whooping and fist-pumping goes on, then there's the raised mezzanine for a better view (and better bar proximity).

In what was once the lobby of the theater, there's a pool table, along with booths and tables for sit-down dining. And the food -- mostly meat-and-potatoes staples -- is way better than what you'd expect if you were to judge by the surroundings (those being walls covered with color photos of hundreds of bands that have played here....
It's rock 'n' roll, and Jaxx does it like no one else.•

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