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Checkout this AWESOME writeup by Frank Gabreil of South Jersey Insider Magazine!
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In View - by Frank Gabriel
Quick View Of Tropicana's Quarter...

November 2007

A recent late night outing to Tropicana’s Quarter serves to demonstrate just how different - read improved - Atlantic City has become in only the last half decade. We arrived at nearly 11 p.m. on this unseasonably warm October evening, and the place was swarming with merrymakers.

Most noticeable among these were groups of young, attractive women, traveling in packs, including a multiple number of Bachelorette party attendees. While I’ve been married a long, long time, I can still remember enough about being single to know that the Bachelor Party is a sort of Holy Grail for those of us possessing a Y chromosome.

This, in accordance with laws of pheromonal science, means lots of young men, similarly on the prowl.

The confluence creates an environment charged with sexual tension, scads of appealing twenty and thirtysomethings with nothing more than a good time on their minds, not to mention below their belts...

And though the Quarter offers more upscale leanings on its first two floors, we were actually headed down, into the subterranean level, to A Dam Good Sports Bar.

On this night, Good’s cellardwelling eponymous enterprise played host to one of the best bar bands we’ve ever seen at the Jersey shore, No Pressure.

Featuring a song list ranging from pop/rock like Bon Jovi and Def Leppard to harder edged music from Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots, plus mainstream, classic Aerosmith, Billy Idol, and Van Halen, this foursome offers something for almost any fan of rock music.

What we liked best about these genre-hopping sets was their sense of manic energy. Most acts take a few seconds, sometimes even a minute or so, between tunes. No Pressure offers an almost constant barrage of hard-hitting audio, without a lot of time for posturing and style points.

The band consists of lead vocalist Mike LaGuardia, bassist/backing vocalist Tom Branella, drummer Brian McKenna, and lead guitar/backing vocalist Scott Schenker. While all the members have extensive musical backgrounds, Branella and Schenker are particularly notable as former members of wellreceived The Bleeding Hearts, one of our area's best original rock acts from the mid-1980’s.

No Pressure seem to have developed quite a following as well, evidenced by the packed bar, where the only place left for us to comfortably perch was atop a wooden table, set up to accommodate their massive speakers. Wandering out into the Quarter, and onto Brighton Avenue during the band’s breaks, we were amazed at both the steady flow of youthful patrons, and their apparent affluence.

It was clear that the party here lasts well beyond 2 a.m., when we needed to leave.

For more info on the band, pics (some intentionally, quite embarrassing!) and their upcoming schedule of gigs, check them out at NoPressureRocks.com.