The New Duncan Imperials, July 22

Saturday, July 22, 8: 30 p.m.

Rascals Live, 1414 15th Street, Moline IL

Currently celebrating their 35th year of delivering high-energy Southern party rock to crowds nationwide, the New Duncan Imperials headline a July 22 concert event at Rascals Live, the Moline venue's guests having released a dozen albums over their career and boasting monikers as fun as their music: Skipper, Goodtime, and Pigtail.

Get to know the gentlemen through their cheeky bios at NewDuncanImperials.com:

Skipper: "What could be more ridiculous than a bass solo? It sums up everything stupid and self-important about rock bands. So let's have a bass solo! From Skipper, who literally can't play bass! Let's have him just stand there on stage and hit one or two spastic notes, lots of dead air, that ever-present gnarly hum of corroded wires, and here's the thing – let's act like it's awesome. Because compared to any other rock and roll bass solo ever played by anyone, it is. All bass solos are stupid, and Skipper's is no more or less stupid than the most artistic, studied, accomplished, serious bass solo by any other rock band in this or any other century. We know it, and soon the crowds know it. It's funny because it's true."

Goodtime: "What could be more ridiculous than a drum solo? Pretty much nothing. We absolutely love Led Zeppelin, but our love encompasses their stupidity, so we fully appreciate John Bonham playing a drum solo with his hands. So let's get GT up there, and give him not drums but our heads, our mammoth-cave-helmet-wearing heads, to bang on. Listen to the sharp rat-a-tat of wood on safety plastic! It cuts through the smoky club, impossible to ignore. And now that we have your attention, you can't miss GT's true virtuosity – he's playing the other dudes' heads, good bit, pretty funny, but check it – he's f---ing wailing! Seriously."

Pigtail: "What could be more ridiculous than a guitar solo? A fancy, twiddly, spot-lit guitar solo from a wealthy and famous rock god? A long one, too – so long the other dudes leave the stage for a smoke backstage. A guitar solo that, I don't know, also includes a theremin, or a violin bow, or another guitar you play with your foot, or all three. Glorious! I want in on it! So without thinking it through too much we combine the most blockheaded, and therefore most important, rock riff ever – the intro to 'Smoke on the Water' – with a feat no rock cretin has ever tried: We'll see your theremin and raise you an oven mitt. Can it be done? Can I play the riff with, as Skipper announces, 'a fully functional oven mitt' on my left hand? I don't know. But I do know this: It Don't Matter."

The New Duncan Imperials headline their Moline engagement on July 22, admission is the 8:30 p.m. concert is $15-20, and more information and tickets are available by calling (309)797-9457 and visiting Facebook.com/rascalslive and RascalsLive.com.