Pennywise reconciles – Jim Lindberg and Fletcher Dragge mend fences
Jim Lindberg and Fletcher Dragge. Photo by Brent Broza, www.brozaphoto.com Should we have expected the unexpected? For fans of Pennywise, the news wasn’t good: Their favorite punk rock band was losing Jim Lindberg, the group’s vocalist, but guitarist Fletcher Dragge vowed to soldier on. In 2009, over lunch at Rosa’s in Hermosa Beach, he claimed that there were already dozens of singers eager to step in and fill out Lindberg’s shoes. But could anyone really replace him? In 2010 this writer sat down with Dragge and the group’s new vocalist, Ignite frontman Zoli Teglas. They were upbeat about touring and songwriting. A few months later, still in 2010, I met with Lindberg in his El Segundo studio to talk about his new CD with his power trio The Black Pacific. Always cordial about one another, at least in front of this eagle-eyed reporter, Fletcher Dragge and Jim Lindberg had spoken about their artistic differences and had clearly set out on different paths once and for all. As it would turn out, those paths led to the same place. The unexpected had occurred. Someone had brought out the peace pipe and passed it around, and here we are today – January, 2013 – on the outdoor patio of La…
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