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DIM now has a Facebook group!  On Facebook?  Join the group:  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11551594121

It’s small - very small right now, but I’d love to have a few group members.  Whaddyasay?

Tommy Tutone

This song was everywhere in the early and mid 80s. MTV, FM Radio, blasting from convertibles on the highway. It was inescapable. Rooted in late American Rock N Roll, with a nod to Tom Petty and a half-wink to new wave, the song is infectious even if its familiarity has bread contempt. If you’re old enough, you’ll remember. I’m sure.

This song was so popular that almost all the real xxx-867-5309 numbers in the US are inactive. It caused a bit of a hassle for the unlucky few who were assigned them back in the day.  Note: This is a faithful re-recording that many will mistake for the original.

Tommy Tutone
“867-5309/Jenny” (mp3)
from “The Singles”
(Spectra Records)

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The Long Ryders

The Long Ryders were formed in late November 1982 out of the ashes of the Los Angeles punk scene. Kentucky born guitarist Sid Griffin left his band The Unclaimed after having bonded musically with former Boxboys drummer Greg Sowders at a jam session in a Mexican transvestite bar in Silverlake. The other guitar player was Steve Wynn but he left to form the Dream Syndicate whereupon Virginia’s Stephen McCarthy, a country music loving newcomer to L.A., stepped in after answering a “Musician’s Wanted” ad in a local Korean newspaper.

I remember hearing and enjoying their poppy melodic punk-jangle when hearing it on college radio.  You’ll also hear a couple of their tracks on Deeper and can download one mp3 here now.
The Long Ryders
“And She Rides” (mp3)
from “The Best Of The Long Ryders”
(Prima Records Ltd.)

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Why I Am Not a Musician

Should any proof be needed, here are reasons #621 and #622 why I spin CDs and not make them myself.  These “experiments” date from about 1981 or so and came about during a 9 month period or so where I really tried to learn to play electric guitar.  I borrowed a friend’s drum machine and plugged it into a Radio Shack mixing board, running my Sears Silvertone guitar with a busted neck and 20 year old strings through a direct line.  Did I mention the guitar cable had a short, too?  I then listened 2 or 3 times to some of the drum machine defaults, paused a few moments then hit record.  Both of these “experiments” are take ones laid down on the spur of the moment w/o a real idea of what I was doing of where anything would go.  The first one almost works after a rocky start.  The second one is fairly embarrassing but has a good idea or two.  Just the result of one evening some 25 years ago…ah, youth. Listen via this flash player:

The Mother Hips

Enjoy some smashing 21st century pop-psyche, a real San Francisco treat! Great tune to add to your collection.

The Mother Hips
“Time We Had” (mp3)
from “Kiss The Crystal Flake”
(Camera Records)

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Go-Betweens Video

I do love this video from Australia’s The Go-Betweens. Fantastic band that deserved greater recognition. Singer/songwriter/vocalist Grant McLennan (he’s the one who dances in with Gibson electric guitar in hand) died in 2006 and the Go-Betweens called it a day. “Was There Anything I Could Do?”

Alex Chilton

Alex Chilton. You know even if you don’t know him. Know the song “The Letter” by the Box Tops?

Gimme a letter for an areo-plane / ain’t got time to make a fast train / lonely days are gone / I’ma coming home / my baby, she wrote me a letter

That was Alex at 16. Later he was the guitarist and co-lead singer of Big Star whose song “September Gurls” was later covered by the Bangles. Big Star were highly influential in the development of Southern jangle pop that would eventually find international acceptance in bands like R.E.M. and others. Here’s a mp3 of what Alex has been up to in the last few years. Enjoy the download and check back again for more mp3s!
Alex Chilton
“Don’t Stop” (mp3)
from “A Man Called Destruction”
(Ardent Music, LLC)

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Abra Moore

 Some excellent engaging female folk-rock.  You might hear a little Emiliana Torrini, or maybe a shinnier Jewel.  She was a founding member of Poi Dog Pondering.  Born in San Diego in 1969 she attended college in Hawaii where she met the other members of that band.  She also had a role in the movie “Slacker” back in 1991.  All three of these are worthy of the download. Enjoy.  (BTW: They’re not in rotation at DIM yet - but they will be soon!  Added to rotation Saturday Jan 12.  Request away or tune in and keep an “ear out” for them.)

Abra Moore
“Sugarite” (mp3)
from “On The Way”
(Sarathan Records)

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Abra Moore
“After All These Years” (mp3)
from “On The Way”
(Sarathan Records)

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Abra Moore
“Sorry” (mp3)
from “On The Way”
(Sarathan Records)

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Spock Rocks the House

I don’t rememer where or when I found this, but I dug it out of my archives because it amuses me…

December (!) Wallpapers - Late, of course

 More wallpapers from Chris.  Wow!  Thanks, again, Chris.

artwork © C.Ursitti 2007 Visit Christopher Ursitti online at: his myspace site

The Bats

Here are some great YouTube vids of New Zealand’s The Bats. Watch ‘em Especially the live version of “Mastery”. You can hear the Bats often on Deeper into Music online.

The Mastery:

Minisnap (Bats side project) video for New Broom off Bounce Around album.
Out in shops, physical and digital, Jan 21st.

His Name Is Alive

I recently added a few tracks from His Name is Alive to Deeper.   They’ve been around since 1989 and this is their second release after a so-called “comeback”.  I like it.  Do you?

His Name Is Alive
“Go to Hell Mountain” (mp3)
from “Xmmer”
(Silver Mountain Media Group/Reincarnate Music)

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His Name Is Alive
“Come to Me” (mp3)
from “Xmmer”
(Silver Mountain Media Group/Reincarnate Music)

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