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STREET BEAT: Midwest Club Band Profile
OVERDUE
by Ernie Thomas
 “For me getting up there and rock ‘n’ rolling is the best way to blow
off steam and get loose,” said Doug Clapp.
Clapp is a proud weekend rock warrior who lives for Friday night! During the week, Clapp is a Vice President at a local branch of Calumet Bank,
often tugging at his collar in anticipation of his next chance to “stand up and
shout!” on some local club stage.
While he loves the banking profession, Clapp relishes the opportunity to live out his rock ‘n’ roll fantasies for a few hours on the weekends.
“We’re strictly in this to have fun and blow of steam,” said Clapp, whose vehicle for “escape” from the white collar world is a quintet called
Overdue!
The band’s very name itself is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the banking profession, a career he shares with the group’s two guitar-slingers –– Dale Clapp
and Paul Dzurovc –– who are fellow executives at local branches of The
Mercantile Bank.
“This band started out about three years ago after my brother and I took a trip to Myrtle Beach and caught a local blues band there,” recalled Doug
Clapp. “Dale and I had both messed around with music for a few years and that
night he turned to me and said –– ‘We messed up. We should’ve put a band
together when we were kids.’”
Heeding the words of Bob Seger that “rock and roll never forgets” and those of Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson who preaches, “you’re never too old to rock
‘n’ roll,” the banking brothers took off their business suits, rolled up
their sleeves and decided to make up for lost time.
Prior to hooking up with the Clapps, Dzurovc had played the part of Eddie Van Halen in a V.H. tribute band during his college years down at Purdue
Lafayette. “Paul’s really got the chops and he is all about putting on a show
like I am,” said Clapp, who often runs into the crowd and incites audience
sing-a-longs on songs like Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl,” John Mellencamp’s
“Pink Houses” and Poison’s “Talk Dirty To Me.”
After their first year together, the trio of bankers amicably parted ways with their former rhythm section –– Mike Klassen and Brian Galley –– last
summer and replaced them with attorney Kenny Fugate on bass and Fed Ex mechanic Bill Lovall on drums.
Years prior, Lovall had recruited Doug Clapp into an earlier band of his called Slagg Wagner, so Clapp was happy to return the favor and recruited
Lovall into the revamped Overdue line-up after hearing that Slagg had disbanded.
“Kenny was actually a drummer who learned bass when he found out we needed a bass player,” laughed Clapp. “We talked to him and a week later he came
by with his bass and had learned about 40 songs.”
Some down time was taken last fall, but in February of this year, Overdue was back in action once again. “We only average one or two shows a month,
but that’s all we want to do, because we all have busy carers and families,”
said Clapp. “We only do this for fun, so we don’t want it to become too hectic
or cut into our family time.”
Earlier this summer Overdue shared the stage with the all original line-up of ‘80s national rockers, Quiet Riot, and did a remarkable job of
entertaining the hair metal fans with a sweat-soaked 90-minute set of high-wattage rock.
Overdue currently has 50 songs in their repertoire and offer a wide enough variety to satisfy for most musical tastes. Their song list encompasses
ranges from classic rock to modern rock to punk. Among the artists they cover
are Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cheap Trick, Beatles, Dada, Creed, Good Charlotte, Blink
182 and Stealer’s Wheel.
Catch OVERDUE on August 8 at the X-ROCK/Radio One Communications Rock Stageat Lake County Fairgrounds in Crown Point, Indiana performing @ 7 p.m. with
BONFIRE.
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