![]() “It’s new to everyone else that still thinks they’re only about one song … It came out so well. “I really wanted to see my friends put out the new material they’ve been playing” for years, said Bartnoff, a former member of Burning Sensations during the ‘80s. Keyboardist Morley Bartnoff, who spent eight years touring with Dramarama and calls the experience “easily one of my greatest rock ‘n’ roll thrills ever,” can be heard on seven of the 12 Color TV tracks he recorded in 2009-10. ![]() It’s been a long time coming … It’s nice to finally have something to share with everybody.” Now that the album is actually out, Easdale said he is “delighted and thrilled. It also took us a long time in the studio just getting everything right and finishing it up.” “We wanted someone who could help us promote the album better than we could do ourselves. “Obviously, with technology being what it is, everybody can put their own records out and do their own thing,” said Easdale. He finally connected with Bob Divney, a former VP of promotion at Reprise Records, who oversees Pasadena Records (part of radio promotion and marketing consultants The Artist Cooperative). The long wait between albums was due to Easdale seeking the right music business team to get a new project off the ground. He gave us feedback in ways we absolutely needed.” After seeing the band play a memorable gig at The Roxy in West Hollywood, Greenberg thought “they were one of the greatest live bands around.”ĭramarama guitarist and co-founder Mark Englert was “thrilled to have Jeff’s experience and wisdom. The Village owner, a former artist manager and concert promoter, said he really became a fan when 1991’s Vinyl came out. Greenberg said Dramarama first appeared on his radar in the Eighties when “KROQ seemed to be playing “Anything Anything” ‘every five minutes.” “My friend Jeff runs it and was kind enough to let us sneak in when it wasn’t otherwise occupied, which, luckily for him, in this day and age of people recording at home and using their computers, he’s still busy over there.” “It’s a fantastic facility and one of the best studios in the world,” said Easdale. The highly regarded studios have hosted everyone from Fleetwood Mac, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan to Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Smashing Pumpkins. Follow-up effort Box Office Bomb gave acting couple Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay the cover photo treatment.Ĭolor TV, among the strongest rock releases so far this year, was co-produced by Easdale and Jeff Greenberg over an extended period at The Village in West Los Angeles. That one contained modern rock radio staple “Anything Anything (I’ll Give You)” - the most requested song in KROQ/106.7 FM Los Angeles history. The silver screen also influenced Dramarama’s early iconography.Īndy Warhol associate and actress Edie Sedgwick adorned the front of the group’s 1985 debut album Cinema Verite. Growing up, whether it was The Monkees when I was five years old or something else, it changed my life in so many ways.” Dramarama was “always very heavily influenced by television and what we watched. “We were mining pop culture for things before it was even called that, admitted Easdale in a recent phone interview. Kicking off with static and tuning sounds, driving rocker “Beneath the Zenith” has Easdale singing about his family’s first model set and how it taught him “How to comb my hair/The cartoons showed me what to eat and how to care … and did it all on seven channels, black and white.” Later, he describes how the medium and technology have evolved. The physical CD even looks like an old channel dial. Then there was “70’s TV,” off 1989’s Stuck in Wonderamaland, which found front man John Easdale singing about watching reruns of Perry Mason, All In the Family, Emergency, Adam-12, The Partridge Family.įlash forward to the present and Color TV, Dramarama’s first new studio album in 15 years, sports an antique television set projecting a test pattern on the cover. Johnny Carson was also namechecked in the songs “Baby Rhino’s Eye” and alt-rock radio hit “Last Cigarette.” Television has been a common reference point in the career of Dramarama.ĭuring some mid-Eighties tours, the Wayne, New Jersey-bred band would adorn its stage with multiple TV sets.
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