Dillon Fence was an American rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They were initially active from the mid-1980s until 1995. The band released three full-length albums (Rosemary, Outside In and Living Room Scene) on Mammoth Records.
History
The group formed in 1986 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, originally named the Magoos, with an initial lineup of Greg Humphreys (guitar), Chris Goode (bass guitar), Kent Alphin (guitar), and Brooke Pitts (drums). Humphreys and Goode had previously played together in a high school band.
Pitts was replaced by his brother, Trent Pitts, due to a broken leg, prior to the recording of the band's self-titled first EP., Another EP (Daylight) followed, before the release of the band's second album, the Lou Giordano-produced Outside In in 1993.
Living Room Scene followed in 1994, again on Mammoth, with Eastwest Records releasing it in the UK, and Atlantic Records in the rest of Europe, and built on the success of Outside In to become the group's biggest commercial success.
Alphin and Goode left, to be replaced by Jim Smith and Andy Ware, and the band toured with both the Black Crowes and Hootie and the Blowfish, but the band split up in 1995 after demos for a fourth album were rejected by Mammoth.
In December 2000, they regrouped for a three-date tour and recorded a double-CD album, Live at the Cat's Cradle. They also did summer reunion tours in 2004 and 2005 to support the greatest hits album Best+.
Singer-songwriter Greg Humphreys' songs have been covered by bands like Hootie and the Blowfish (who used to open for them and later vice versa) and Letters to Cleo.
Band members' other work
Greg Humphreys formed the soul-funk group Hobex, which has also featured Ware, and later the New York-based Greg Humphreys Electric Trio. Scott Carle was in Collapsis (Cherry/Universal) in 2000.