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Dave DiMartino

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Dave DiMartino is a past editor of CREEM, former West Coast Bureau Chief of Billboard, a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, and later executive editor of LAUNCH and Yahoo! Music. He still writes. And he’s a mammal!

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As album titles go, It Bites’ ‘Eat Me In St. Louis’ may be among the best.

28.09.2025 23:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you told me this was a bonus track on Nico’s ‘Desertshore,’ I would beleve it.

youtu.be/NLz13lbXFXY?...

09.07.2025 20:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Catering to the cannibal market seems a bad business decision!

02.07.2025 19:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This guy has stuck around in my brain maybe longer than he should have.

23.06.2025 01:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unopened treasures: note dog teeth marks!

28.05.2025 19:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Simple Minds Live Reviewed: Jim Kerr and co. bring the Big Music to LA Appearing at Los Angeles' Kia Forum, Simple Minds provide a dazzling pop spectacular. Read MOJO's live report and the set list in full.

Simple Minds Live In LA Reviewed: “If anything, both Kerr and Burchill have gotten better with age.”

Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill bring the Big Music to Los Angeles’ Kia Forum. MOJO’s Dave Di Martino is dazzled...

23.05.2025 17:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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He’s 81, and his brand new album absolutely kills it. Great stuff!

16.05.2025 22:12 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely great, unsung Miami band!

17.03.2025 06:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Everyone's a critic!

20.02.2025 00:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It would appear the Twitterverse numbers have declined to the point where their latest “notifications” are now, conspicuously, clickbait. And who would actually click? Crazy!

10.02.2025 00:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ratledge / Holdsworth Interview 1974 Dave DiMartino interview with Mike Ratledge & Allan Holdsworth (East Lansing, Michigan) 3 November, 1974

Very sorry to hear about the death of Soft Machine keyboardist/co-founder Mike Ratledge, a superb talent. Here's a radio interview I did with him and (also now-departed guitarist) Allan Holdsworth back in 1974. A great loss.

soundcloud.com/ron-casey/ra...

05.02.2025 21:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Personally, still kind of miffed that someone thought of this stage name first!

16.01.2025 02:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The downside of using your dog as your icon.

07.01.2025 04:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If we’re talking favorite holiday tracks, must point out the one penned and sung by my son Greg a few years back. Dig it!

youtu.be/zbccCQtU_ZQ?...

23.12.2024 19:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How they can afford this casting I’ll NEVER know!

17.12.2024 01:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I have more hard drives than I know what to do with—more media than you’d believe—but upon moving things around today, I noticed that between 2022 and 2023, Seagate reduced their warranty for large hard drives by 1 year for North & South America. Believe me, I have a NAS and much more, but…ouch.

15.12.2024 03:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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These TV shows they beam in from the future are better than you'd think!

11.12.2024 05:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Apple Music’s 2024 Replay for me must indicate something or other!

03.12.2024 23:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

$100 off through the end of the year, also on their site, which’ll have more info re location!

01.12.2024 00:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Has been eons since I saw one of these at Costco!

30.11.2024 22:43 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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What plays in Walmart on Black Friday. True!

29.11.2024 23:08 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tulsi Gabbard certainly has a mysterious past!

24.11.2024 02:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dudes, thanks for following, but can you maybe imagine a world where I could proudly show my mom the names of the people who follow me?

22.11.2024 02:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oddly reminded of Boz Scaggs at Lowe’s this afternoon!

20.11.2024 22:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Was oddly fascinated by this guy years ago—bored kids as genetic gods!—and I still kinda like him!

20.11.2024 02:29 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This is nearly perfect.

19.11.2024 06:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Regular shopping at Freakbeat Records in LA, my fave store ‘round here for a few years. You never know what’ll show up!

18.11.2024 05:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Just snagged a pic of my very first personal stereo system, provided by my parents circa 1968. Voice Of Music turntable, with its flukishly light tonearm and cartridge, preserved nearly every LP I ever played on it.

Plus a pic of the album I got with it, still one of my faves. “America,” yes!

18.11.2024 02:59 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Got a kick re the previous owner of this promo Paul Winter LP.

That would be Dorothy Ashby (1932-1986), pioneering jazz harpist from Detroit, who recorded some classic albums of her own that would likely command a much prettier penny than this one did.

How did it end up in LA? How does anybody?

17.11.2024 01:02 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Give me a few days. I know my EARS are sonically worse!

17.11.2024 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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