![]() ![]() “In the months since then, I’ve realized that I didn’t need to react as much as I did,” Easdale insists. Nixon), the singer assures his public that the health scare “was just that, a scare…they took a chunk out of my arm, and now everything is fine.” Speaking from his home in Whittier, CA (historic spawning/stomping grounds of Richard M. It’s also the first local appearance of 2019 for the perennial Shore faves, who were forced to cancel a scheduled January appearance when Easdale was diagnosed with melanoma just days before the band’s customary contribution to the annual Light of Day festival. With doors opening at 7:30 pm, it’s a Very Special Episode in the club’s summertime-Thursday series of After Party events, keyed to the open-air Jams on the Sand concerts on the beachtop bandstand outside the nearby Anchor’s Bend bar. ”It felt like I won some sort of prize the Publishers Clearing House.”Īs it turned out, the cable series spotlight was exactly the thing that the members of Dramarama needed to heal from an early 1990s break-up to cement their standing as a favorite of fanbases on both the Atlantic and Pacific (plus, for whatever reason, a fairly fervent following in France) - and to enter the new century as an institution that materializes regularly, like some kind of alterna-rock Avengers, whenever and wherever the situation demands the band’s signature mix of supercharged powerpop and sardonic social commentary.īorn and bred on the mean streets of Wayne, NJ relocated to Southern California (when legendary KROQ deejay Rodney Bingenheimer’s stamp of approval granted them godhood within the greater LA region), the five-man Dramarama returns to Asbury Park’s Wonder Bar with three charter members intact (Easdale, plus guitarists Mark Englert and Peter Wood), an all-new album in the pipeline (their first since 2005’s Everybody Dies) - and a hard-earned cred that’s seen them record and perform with former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, Blondie drummer Clem Burke, and iconic session man Jim Keltner (they also count Ellen De Generes among their biggest fans, even appearing on her show as her “birthday present” several years back). “It was remarkably flattering that they would even think of us that way,” said the singer, songwriter and forever frontman of the bi-coastally based band that made its reputation in the “modern rock” glory days of The Green Parrot rock club and WHTG-FM - and which returns Shoreside once more next Thursday, August the First. “They” were the folks from a new VH-1 TV series entitled Bands Reunited - and the thing they were looking to make happen, even as Easdale stood there looking more like something out of an episode of COPS - was the reunion, by popular demand, of a little project known as Dramarama. Published in The Coaster (Asbury Park, NJ) and The Link (Long Branch, NJ), July 25, 2019Īs John Easdale recalled it a few years back, “they showed up at my front door one day, when I’m not wearing a shirt…and they worked to make it happen.” 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).John Easdale (second from left) leads the re-energized lineup of Jersey-bred modern rock favorites DRAMARAMA back to the Shore circuit on August 1 st. The long wait between albums was due to Easdale seeking the right music business team to get a new project off the ground. Paul geared around the album release, Easdale explained the process behind the album, as well as what took so long between releases: In an interview with Rock Cellar’s George A. Though I realize how fortunate I’ve been with my public/musical life, it’s my personal life, my family who are my heart - they truly are the only things that really matter.” No matter how self-destructive and completely inexcusable my actions have been, they’ve never abandoned me. They have stuck with and supported me through so much. First and foremost, this is an ode to my family. ![]() ![]() Said Easdale regarding the song’s makeover: “This is a new, more radio-friendly, bite-sized remix of one of the most personal songs I’ve ever written.
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