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Rock band can’t tell you what to expect

 East Coast band Dopapod will stop in Fayetteville next week on a fall tour following a summer of playing music festivals throughout the country.
East Coast band Dopapod will stop in Fayetteville next week on a fall tour following a summer of playing music festivals throughout the country.

Funk-rock-jam quartet Dopapod is making a stop at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville Tuesday as part of a fall tour with The Nth Power. Although the Boston-based group released its fifth full-length album last year, fans know a tour doesn't necessarily mean familiar songs.

"We're playing some of all our stuff [on the tour], but we're also playing a lot of songs that aren't album songs," Rob Compa, guitarist/vocalist, said by phone. "It's a really versatile set list. A lot of it is improvised, which is kind of the whole nature behind the band to begin with -- we're a jam band. But we used to write all sorts of set lists and transitions and talk about it a whole lot before going on. Now we don't talk about the set list anymore, we just go out and play. The show flows more organically that way."

FAQ

Dopapod

With The Nth Power

WHEN — 8 p.m. Tuesday

WHERE — George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville

COST — $12

INFO — georgesmajesticloun…

Called the "best kept secret" at Bonaroo this year by Rolling Stone Magazine, the members of Dopapod have been more experimental in the composition of their music and their performances.

"I can't rightly tell anybody what to expect," says Compa. "We put a lot of work into the compositions -- which I think are a lot more focused than when we were younger -- so that's part of it, but we love improv so much that we don't really even know what's going to happen necessarily going in to a show."

The group's music holds influences of progressive rock, jazz, groove, electro, metal and funk and, as such, is hard to label. Dopapod certainly meets the criteria for a jam band, though, with long improvised sets that won't stay confined to a single, or even several, genres or tempos. The band is changing it up a little, though, and has been working on writing some shorter music in the three to four minute range over the last year to give fans a palette cleanser between the long jams.

"We like Fayetteville a lot, it's a fun town to be in, so I hope people come and see us so we don't feel broke and starved!" Compa says laughing. "We just want people to dance and have fun."

-- Jocelyn Murphy

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