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Title: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by Starbuck on Feb 1^st, 2010 at 12:14pm

Any Smithereens fans out there? If so, any suggestions on what a Smithereens virgin should pick up to get into the band? Any best/favorite album suggestions? All I have are their beatle albums.

Pat Dinizio, i guess, is doing a show in a friend's living room in April. Go figure. Talk about front row seat.

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by left shoe shuffle on Feb 1^st, 2010 at 12:31pm

Love me some Smithereens!
Jersey power pop at it's finest.

Don't know how much stuff is still in print.
Pick up one of their comps - there's like three or four of 'em.

Pat's been doing the living room gigs for a while...

He's a big baseball fan, too.
Chat him up with some Twins.

Stupid poll, btw.

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by Starbuck on Feb 1^st, 2010 at 12:33pm

left shoe shuffle wrote on Feb 1^st, 2010 at 12:31pm:

Stupid poll, btw.

everyone's a critic!

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by PartyDoll MEG on Feb 1^st, 2010 at 1:42pm

you needing some Smithereens, Bucky?

yeah...

lame poll...

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by Paranoid Android on Feb 1^st, 2010 at 5:18pm

Pat used to come into the bar I used to manage every so often...nice guy...never new he was who he was...just knew he was a musician...i thought he lived in VA outside of DC where I worked...I know he was a program director/DJ at (DC Based) XM radio...I would love him to play in my living room!!!

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by Sioux on Feb 1^st, 2010 at 6:10pm

I love me some Smithereens!! Heard them a few years back at an outdoor concert. Got to be up close and personal, standing/jumping/singing right in front of the stage. Nice experience. :)

Green Thoughts is my favorite.
Then you could get Especially For You, and God Save The Smithereens. I think Pat has a couple of solo CD's, but I don't have them....

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by left shoe shuffle on Feb 1^st, 2010 at 6:54pm

Great live band.
Been a fan of Jimmy Babjak's fretwork for a long time...

And Dennis Diken is a Charlie acolyte.
He's even played "him" in the Mike Hunt Band.

Here's a few pics from a Jersey show a coupla years ago:

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by texile on Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 2:09pm

Loved them!
They were a bright spot of the mid-80s...

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by CrissCrossMind on Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 4:40pm

The Smithereens "Especially For You" on Enigma Records ... was my fav ... think there was a shout out to Bill Wyman on one cut ... not sure ... but side 2 ... Behind The Wall Of Sleep or Blood & Roses ... close Alone At Midnight ... :boring

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by left shoe shuffle on Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 4:54pm

'Behind The Wall Of Sleep'

Well she held a bass guitar
And she was playing in a band
And she stood just like Bill Wyman
Now I am her biggest fan

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by CrissCrossMind on Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 10:21am

Behind A Wall Of Sleep ... opened with another Stones reference me thinks:

"She had hair like Chrissie Shrimpton ... :will-ya
back in 1-9-6-5! ... she had legs that never ended ... I was halfway paralized!" ... CCM

Title: Re: Any Smithereens fans?
Post by Brainbell Jangler on Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 6:15pm

CrissCrossMind wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 10:21am:

They also name-check Bill Wyman in that great tune: "And she stood just like Bill Wyman/Now I am her biggest fan."
Brainy