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	Dramarama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dramarama may refer to one of the following:
		Dramarama (television) - a 1980s British television series
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dramarama (85 words)

	Dramarama (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dramarama is a Los Angeles, California-based alternative rock/power pop band that was formed in their native New Jersey in 1982, disbanded in 1994, and formally reunited in 2003, following an appearance on VH1's Bands Reunited reality show, a "where-are-they-now" documentary marking the first time since disbanding that the entire original lineup performed together.
		Original bass player/producer and Dramarama cofounder Chris Carter is currently a disc jockey in Los Angeles who's primarily known for hosting America's longest-running Beatle show, "Breakfast With the Beatles", in which he plays nothing but Beatles material and comments upon the history of the Beatles for as long as 4 hours every week.
		It included the band's earliest recordings together, songs that were dropped from their early albums, a couple of self-admitted poorly-recorded live performances, and one song exclusive (at the time) to the disc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dramarama_(band) (1880 words)

	Dramarama - Satan Stole My Teddybear
		At the same time, the band was able to mine pop rock as well as a slightly dirty side of the rock world to create a sound that has lasted for fifteen years as of this writing.
		Dramarama has always had a bad habit of including songs that sound uninspired and are passed off as worthy of the rest of their music.
		While the band's roots may lie in a bit of the old glitter rock from the 70s as well as a healthy dose of the Beatles, there was also a timeless quality that transcends mainstream and alternative dross.
	www.ssmt-reviews.com /db/searchrev.php?artistID=352&showReview=true (1983 words)

	NIPP: Artists: Dramarama
		Blending hard rock wallop, alternative rock smarts, power pop songcraft, and punk rock urgency, Dramarama was a band who seemed on the verge of a major commercial breakthrough several times during their 11-year career.
		As the band was completing their fourth studio album, Vinyl, in 1991, Chameleon Records went bankrupt, and as the band scrambled to come up with the cash to finish the project, the elusive major-label deal finally materialized when Elektra picked up the project.
		Dramarama called it a day after a farewell show at Asbury Park’s the Stone Pony in 1994; four years later, John Easdale returned to the music business with a solo album.
	www.nipp.com /artists/detail/dramarama (295 words)

	Dramarama - Satan Stole My Teddybear
		The band obviously fiddled a lot with the songs before their final album versions.
		Dramarama had a pop sensibility that made their songs memorable and instantly appealing, but also have a lasting quality that doesn't make them sound dated over a decade later.
		Do yourself a favor and explore this band and be sure not to skip this record for any reason whatsoever.
	www.ssmt-reviews.com /db/searchrev.php?artistID=352&showReview=true (1983 words)

	Virginmega.com - INTERVIEWS - Exclusive Interview - Dramarama . They're Back! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dramarama, for those of you who don't know, broke into the airwaves back in 1985 when they were discovered by The Mayor of Sunset Strip, Rodney Bingenheimer, on his radio show, Rodney On The Rock.
		Dramarama were featured on the VH1 special about bands reuniting and they were invited to play at KROQ's Inland Invasion concert where they ended up being very well-received.
		She had no idea who he was and she kept confusing the names of the bands I tell her again that John is the lead singer of Dramarama, not General Public, and that I'm here to interview him.
	www.virginmegamagazine.com /?aid=CCE (1407 words)

	popnirvana: Malaise, Apathy, Pop Criticism and More.
		As it was with Dramarama, they recruited a new full-time drummer in Clem Burke, of Blondie semi-fame, and went to work on a new album for Chameleon/Elektra.
		Suddenly without a band — his main source of livelihood for more than ten years — Easdale found himself very nearly in the position of the protagonist in his loser anthem, “Work for Food.” The irony was not lost on him.
		Dramarama’s excellent body of work — which at its best is as good as that of the similar, more celebrated Replacements — is a testament to the fact that the band was a one hit wonder only in the strictest definition of the term.
	www.popnirvana.com /dramarama.html (3500 words)

	sandiego.citysearch.com > Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The New Jersey-based Dramarama was formed in 1983 and issued "Cinema Verite" in 1985, which was followed by "Box Office Bomb" in 1989.
		But the band's sound couldn't compete with the early '90s grunge thing, so Dramarama never made it as huge as its early success promised.
		The band dissolved in 1994, but 10 years later appeared on VH-1's "Bands Reunited." Apparently the show aroused some nostalgia among the former members, who decided to embark on this tour, which hits HOB Jan. 25.
	entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile/271145?p=1 (169 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Dramarama
		Grounded in the timeless twin aesthetics of pop art and power pop, Dramarama was nevertheless a star-crossed combo, out of synch with both the mainstream rock audience and the music business throughout its career.
		But it is a tribute to a potent sound and enthusiastic vision that Dramarama still sounds as fresh and sharp now as when it first emerged during the corporate-rock bloat of the mid-'80s.
		Dramarama's identification with the beautiful and the doomed intensifies on the prophetically titled Box Office Bomb, recorded after a move to Los Angeles.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=dramarama (690 words)

	Dramarama — Everybody Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dramarama come out with a disc that flirts with all different brands of rock without unnecessarily pigeonholing themselves into one specific genre.
		The sound that Dramarama puts out on disc is one that has been cultivated for a tremendously long period of time; this is perfectly shown in the talent exhibited in every song on “Everybody Dies” and the sheer replay value of the disc.
		Especially impressive is the CSNY/Jethro Tull sound that the band throws out at random with their secret track; the forty minutes of “Everybody Dies” speeds through like nothing when such a capable band takes to the studio.
	www.neufutur.com /Reviews/dramarama.html (418 words)

	northjersey.com - Montclair Times Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By the time the band’s fourth album, “Vinyl,” its major label debut, was released in 1991, Dramarama had exploded onto the scene.
		The band’s unheralded success popularized a new kind of alternative and modern rock sound that would dominate mainstream radio and the popular music culture for years to come.
		So the band re-united, minus Carter, and in October released “Everybody Dies,” which was material originally slated to be released as the second Easdale solo album.
	www.montclairtimes.com /page.php?page=10883 (1076 words)

	Printable Version
		There were a couple of minor hits, but the band had always been stuck on the verge of stardom, and all the anticipation had taken its toll.
		He was told the network was going to do a show on unsung bands of the '80s.
		It was really "Bands Reunited," a reality rummage through Reagan-era nostalgia that worked to get long-dead groups back on stage for one special surprise gig.
	www.lvcitylife.com /articles/2004/06/30/music/music02.prt (621 words)

	Asbury Park Music - the portal for Jersey Shore music fans and artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dramarama was an explosive live band that recorded several brilliant records during the late 80s and early 90s.
		The band was formed by a group of guys from Wayne, New Jersey who moved out to California around the time they were signed to their first record deal.
		Although Dramarama songs have reached near classic levels in the alternative music world, the band never achieved the success or recognition they were due.
	www.asburymusic.com /artists/Dramarama-artists.html (476 words)

	HYBRIDMAGAZINE.COM \| REVIEWS \| Dramarama - Everybody Dies album review
		The catalyst for many of these songs was a close friend of the band's diagnosis of cancer, which has since claimed his life.
		The songs of Dramarama have always been filled with a certain sing-songy lyricism and obscure alliterations and references, and that commodity has not been lost.
		Everybody Dies is further proof that the various members of Dramarama are much more as a collective than they could ever hope to be as individual parts of the greater rock and roll machine.
	www.hybridmagazine.com /reviews/0106/dramarama.shtml (569 words)

	John Easdale Review
		He spent almost 10 years singing and writing songs for his living in Dramarama, a rock band that was always a contender, never a champ in the rock 'n' roll prizefighting ring.
		He drew on his background as Dramarama's original drummer, ran his customary acoustic guitar through "a bunch of boxes" to achieve a raucous electric sound and created a one-man band for a good chunk of the recording.
		The album is essentially Dramarama by other means: terrific hooks and well-cultivated influences from '60s pure-pop and '70s underground rock, applied to a mixture of mournful ballads and headlong, seething rockers that work out frustrations as they're being voiced.
	www.eggbert.com /home/eggbert/reviews/easdale_latimes.html (1542 words)

	Upstage Magazine - Central New Jersey's Guide to the arts
		Dramarama is a Jersey-born, Los Angeles-based alternative rock/power pop band that was formed in Wayne in 1982, disbanded in 1994, and formally reunited in 2003, following a January appearance on VH1's Bands Reunited reality show, marking the first time since disbanding that the entire original lineup performed together.
		It's unmistakable Dramarama, but it's tailored for the world in which we live today, a world that's quite a bit different than it was in 1993, when Dramarama's last studio CD was released —different not only for John Easdale, but for all of us as well.
		Because the band moved to California in 1985, one fun element of Dramarama's New Jersey shows is that they're often joined onstage by old friends and even former bandmates, so every show is like a mini-reunion, both onstage and in the dressing room.
	www.upstagemagazine.com /articles/getarticle-new.php?ID=1139 (1120 words)

	New Brunswick Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While the band's last record, Weird Food & Devastation, never gained the notoriety of their 1993 TVT release Ring, they are definitely back to show that they can still write, perform, and rock.
		The Jersey shore is lucky to have a station that supports up and coming music and continues to support bands that shaped the genre of modern rock and alternative music.
		While many of the bands performing this year have been around for a while, my opinion was that all of them have helped to keep new music alive by continuing to record and perform.
	www.nbunderground.com /magazine/19980003/surf98.htm (1331 words)

	Rolling Stone : Dramarama Take Aim at Arnold
		Dramarama, who earlier this year reunited after a nine-year break, have re-recorded the Dead Kennedy's politically-charged classic "California Uber Alles," with a new set of anti-Arnold Schwartzenegger lyrics reflecting the group's embarrassment at the state of affairs in their adopted home of California.
		The new song is available to download as an MP3 on Dramarama frontman John Easdale's Web site (johneasdale.com) and includes lyrics penned by Easdale both mocking the circus that the state's gubernatorial race has become as well as Schwartzenegger's alleged history of sexual misconduct and making comments of admiration about Adolf Hitler.
		As for the band, which formed in New Jersey in the early-Eighties, Easdale says that there's a good chance that the reunited Dramarama will convene to record a new album that he had initially plotted as a solo release.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5936382/dramarama_take_aim_at_arnold (511 words)

	Amazon.com: The Best of Dramarama: 18 Big Ones: Music: Dramarama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By the time another year went by, they were gone, lost to wherever such bands go, to be heard only on Richard Blade's flashback lunch hour and in the adolescent humming of those of us who came of age at that time in that place.
		At their best, Dramarama combines great guitar work, infectious rhythm, and clever lyrics with a wit and sense of irony you almost never see in the post-grunge pop/rock top-40 world.
		Dramarama was a great band that never achieved the level of fame that was due them.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000347E?v=glance (1709 words)

	Dramarama Returns To Asbury Park for the First Time Since Breaking Up at the Stone Pony
		Interest in Dramarama may be at its all-time peak thanks to being part of VH-1's show "Bands Reunited" which attempted to bring classic bands from the 1980s back together.
		Chris Carter, an original band member who is now a popular DJ in California, chose not to rejoin the band for this tour.
		In essence the band is a combination of original Dramarama band members and members of the John Easdale west coast band.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/5/emw123890.htm (913 words)

	Banana Oil! » Main Drag Through Dreamtown* (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After the fifth album (and two unofficial ones, one under a different band name, and one for their fan club), they called it a day and went their separate ways.
		He recorded one album solo (serving as his own backup band in the process), and kept contact with all his old friends.
		In the fall of 2003, outraged at Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempt to become governor (they're musicians, so you knew that they were Leftists, right?), the band reunited to record a quickie single, a cover of the Dead Kennedys' "California Uber Alles." It was, alas, not up to their usual tunesmithing standards; but it sparked something.
	blog.ianhamet.com /index.php/archive/2004/09/22/250 (459 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - VH1 Bands Reunited
		Convincing the band members to put their divisive break-ups behind them is not an easy task.
		Join our host as he attempts to bring together these former band mates, and have them perform together live in a club packed with fans, some of whom will travel around the world to see their favorite band play one last gig, ultimately becoming a BAND REUNITED.
		This could be fun, regardless of the band (don't think I can name a Dramarama song, and can only name one or two of a couple others).
	www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=54963 (1388 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		With the band chemistry flowing again they not only reformed, they picked up where they left off in 1993 and recorded their eighth album!
		And while there is that edginess running throughout Everybody Dies the band arenât afraid to try different things twenty years into their career.
		Itâs truly a snapshot of a band having fun at being a band again and rediscovering the joys of making a record.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=49381 (275 words)

	www.myspace.com/dramaramamusic
		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!
		What choice is there but to release a new Dramarama album.
		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.
	www.myspace.com /dramaramamusic (1329 words)

	DramaRama
		Dramarama has always been a hard band to peg.
		Since starting out in Wayne, New Jersey, in the mid-'80s, the band has synthesized early '70s glam rock influences with enough skill to avoid the retro tag at the same time that it's managed to avoid sounding current.
		The group's big-hair metal look and choreographed stage show were too slick to be alternative but the band members were too geeky and obsessive to be mainstream FM rockers.
	www.czarmarket.com /amultimedia/dramarama.html (211 words)

	Jersey Beat
		The Dramarama songbook begins and ends with two classic songs and a lot of filler, and it was really shameful for the band to pad out its set like that.
		And believe it or not, the crowd was quite familiar with the band's body of work (ever hear of a little station called WHTG, which played Dramarama several times a day for over a decade?).
		I have seen Dramarama numerous times on the west coast (since that's where I'm from) and they have always put 110% into their shows, even when they've had technical difficulties.
	jerseybeat.blogspot.com /2005/10/anything-anything-nope-nothing-it.html (4336 words)

	dafire gallery - Home > Bands
		Their fans are very dedicated to band (even making up flyers and demanding to be on a street team), but on top of that they have a band journal that is always good for a chuckle.
		All the band members were out on the patio area afterwards to meet the fans.
		I was able to meet everyone in the band afterwards, except for Tony Snow....its so cool to see such an amazing performance and then to meet the 'guys' behind the band.
	dafire.com /gallery/index.php?cat=2 (5375 words)

	NorthJerseyMusic.com - Northern NJ's Premiere Live Music Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jay explained to me that the band was Dramarama, the album was "Vinyl", and he was pretty sure they were from somewhere in NJ.
		Dramarama were recently featured on an episode of VH-1's "Bands Reunited".
		After the VH1 weekend, Dramarama were invited to play a festival in Southern California...we played to thousands of folks and the experienc helped me decide it would be silly NOT to call it Dramarama...
	www.northjerseymusic.com /get_to_know.php?id=11 (968 words)

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