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Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, oh wait,
wrong bio. Hailing from The Garden State , yeah this is the one... three friends
and bandmates, (yes there were more, but this isn't about them), pack their
suitcases, lug their guitars, and head west for a short trip to sunny Southern
California. A few shows a few days then they're back in their own beds in
bucolic NJ. Now wouldn't that be boring? Good thing that's not quite how it
went. ....Upon arriving in the dream factory, Peter, Mark, John, and those
others discover their dream, not the one where they show up to school naked, the
other dream, the music dream, was well, a reality. The World Famous KROQ , was
playing their song, "ANYTHING ANYTHING"! Playing it so much in fact that even
Mark, Peter, and John were tired of hearing it. Not really, but I have to make
them look at least a little bit humble. One day you're working at the local
hardware store, the next day you're being courted by countless record companies,
playing to thousands opening for the Furs at Irvine Meadows, and to top it all
off Garrett Morris, yes, THE GARRETT MORRIS , lives in the same apartment
complex as you!! Albeit you're sharing a two bedroom, no food in the fridge
apartment with ten other guys, but still, Garrett Morris is your neighbor.
Things get a little blurry here...something about the next biggest thing that
never was, the best band you never heard of (most of you anyway), can't
catagorize this kind of music, no synthesizers, actual guitars! Didn't they
realize this was the 80's? and the rest is history...blah blah blah. About the
others, Jesse, and even more about the others, Chris.
Sounds like the end of the story...but it's not. Fast forward. Past Lorenzo
Lllamas, past Uncle Floyd, past Pat Sajak, past Mr. Letterman, past rehab, past
five critically acclaimed albums (yes, critically acclaimed, don't believe me
check. Did you check? See I told ya), past all sorts of fun, past rehab....now
STOP!!!... It's 2003...you're in your garage, shirtless in your garage, the
company you've worked for has gone out of business, your best friend and your
mom have died just weeks apart just weeks before, and, well, with nothing else
to do on a Tuesday afternoon in August you're in your garage shirtless...when
all of a sudden...there are 50, well, maybe 20, okay, more like 12 people
running at you with cameras and microphones. Is it America's Most Wanted, as
some of your neighbors think? NO! It's your old (as in long time, not geriatric)
friend Richard Blade and his VH1 crew asking you to reunite for one show with
the your old band, remember? the ones who also came to sunny Southern California
all those years ago? The ones, some of whom you haven't played with for almost 9
years. And of course some who you talk to and play with quite frequently. Any
guesses as to which two they might be? By Sunday it's dream time again, crowds,
camera crews, swanky hoes, I mean hotels, and limousines. All goes well, so well
in fact that the guys at the way aformentioned KROQ invite y'all to play the
next month at their annual Inland Invasion concert . Of course you all would
LOVE to, it's a no brainer.....we're fast forwarding again, past 3 weeks of
drama and trauma, and STOP! It's Sept. 20th...Dramarama (with all the band
members mentioned in that little members box) takes the sidestage, I know, side
stage sounds a bit anticlimatic, but read on...takes the side stage where
15,000, okay maybe 10,000, people have gathered to watch you perform, and
perform you did! Pandemonium! What choice is there but to release a new
Dramarama album. "Everybody Dies", that album , is NOW, yes RIGHT NOW, available
at a record store near you!! At least we hope it is. If not go to Tower.com to
order your copy today. And while you're in this Dramarama type mood, be sure to
call your favorite radio station and make some requests, of course we mean
request DRAMARAMA . Who do you think we meant? DRAMARAMA VIDEOS
Original DRAMARAMA members........ Peter Wood, MARK 'Mr. E Boy' ENGLERT, john
easdale ........with OUTSTANDING support from........ Craig Ballam, Mike Davis
and Tony Snow ........ and of course our sometimes secret weapon... Cosmo Topper
Influences The mind and spirit of Uncle Mookie, the Man the Myth, the Legend,
the forever missed Greg Dwinnell
Visit Dramarama at
www.myspace.com/dramaramamusic
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Updated March, 30, 2006
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