Eric Dover (born January 19, 1967) is an American guitarist and singer, most notably with

Jellyfish Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies or simply jellies, are the #Life cycle, medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animal ...

, Slash's Snakepit,

Imperial Drag Imperial Drag was an American rock band active from 1994 to 1997. The group, formed after the breakup of Jellyfish, released one album and scored one hit single in the U.S. before disbanding. History Imperial Drag formed in 1994 after keyboardi ...

, and

Alice Cooper Vincent Damon Furnier (born February 4, 1948), known by his stage name Alice Cooper, is an American rock singer and songwriter whose career spans sixty years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusion ...

Biography

Dover began playing guitar when he was 11 years old. He started playing around town wherever he could. He shared the stage with Kim Boyce and was in the group The Extras with drummer Scott Collier in the mid-1980s. The core of that band split off to form the outfit Love Bang in 1991. They were signed to a development deal by

Ardent Studios Ardent Studios is an American recording studio located in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The studio was founded in the late 1950s by John King, Fred Smith, and John Fry. Over time, it has become a commercially successful recording studio. ...

in Memphis and recorded for them for the next two years. Love Bang's album, ''The Rule of 72's'', was released March 26, 2009 and is available on

iTunes iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating s ...

. In 1993 he joined

on tour after the release of '' Spilt Milk''. The group disbanded in 1994 and Dover joined bandmate

Roger Manning Roger Manning is a New York City based singer-songwriter who plays an aggressive acoustic style of music. Manning, along with a small handful of other artists, composed the original New York City anti-folk scene. On February 6, 1985, Manning w ...

in the group Doverman. Dover and Manning have cameos as part of Davy Jones' band in the 1995 ''

The Brady Bunch Movie ''The Brady Bunch Movie'' is a 1995 American comedy film that parodies the 1969–1974 television series ''The Brady Bunch'' (albeit in postmodern lens). The film was directed by Betty Thomas, with a screenplay by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, a ...

''. Before Doverman went into the studio, Dover auditioned as lead vocalist for the first solo album by

Slash Slash may refer to: * Slash (punctuation), the "/" character Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Slash (Marvel Comics) * Slash (''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'') Music * Harry Slash & The Slashtones, an American rock band * Nash th ...

Guns N' Roses Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985 as a merger of local bands L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band's "classic" line-up consisted of vocalist Axl R ...

. Dover recorded vocals on the Slash's Snakepit album ''

It's Five O'Clock Somewhere "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" is a song performed by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett, and written by Jim "Moose" Brown and Don Rollins. It was released in June 2003 as the lead single from Jackson's 2003 compilation album '' Greatest Hits Volume ...

'' before rejoining Manning in the renamed

. After Imperial Drag broke up in 1997, Dover appeared on several albums as a session musician before joining

's band for the ''

Brutal Planet ''Brutal Planet'' is the fourteenth solo and twenty-first studio album overall by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released in 2000. Musically, it sees Cooper tackling a much darker and heavier approach than on previous albums, with many s ...

'' tour in 2001. He played on 2001's ''

Dragontown ''Dragontown'' is the fifteenth solo and twenty-second studio album overall by American rock musician Alice Cooper. It was released in 2001 on Spitfire Records. Like ''Brutal Planet'', the album displays a heavier metal style than many of his prev ...

'' and is co-credited with

and fellow guitarist

Ryan Roxie Ryan Roxie (born Ryan Rosowicz, December 1, 1965) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a solo artist and for playing guitar with Alice Cooper, Casablanca, Gilby Clarke, and Slash's Snakepit. Roxie is the primary found ...

on most of the tracks of the 2003 album '' The Eyes of Alice Cooper''. He left the band following the tour for '' The Eyes of Alice Cooper''. Fellow Birminghamian Damon Johnson won the audition to replace him. Dover went on to frequently appear with other members of Cooper's band as Glamnation. Currently, Dover fronts a group named Sextus and has adopted a moniker of the same name. The debut album ''Stranger Than Fiction'' was released by Sextus on March 18, 2008, on Dramapants Records. The second record ''Devil Angel'' was released in October 2010. The lineup of Sextus is made of Eric Dover (vocals and guitar), Chris Declercq (guitar), Joe Karnes (bass), Eric "Icky" Skodis (drums), Mitchell Sigman (keyboards) and Ron Dziubla (saxophone). Since 2017, Dover is also a member of the rock outfit The Lickerish Quartet, alongside other former Jellyfish members multi-instrumentalist Roger Joseph Manning Jr. and bassist Tim Smith. They released their first EP, ''Threesome Volume 1'', in May 2020, and their second, ''Threesome Volume 2,'' in late November 2020.

References

* * * * * *

External links

Official website
*http://www.sextus.com/
Dramapants Records
*http://www.thelickerishquartet.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Dover, Eric 1967 births Living people Singers from Alabama People from Jasper, Alabama Guitarists from Alabama American male guitarists Alice Cooper (band) members 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American male singers 20th-century American singers 21st-century American guitarists 21st-century American male musicians