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 The
Dives
<dives(AT)thatpromising.com>
Former Chris Ware Band re-formed as the Dives. Expect the
same excellent punk-a-billy garage-rock soul from Lowell,
MA. Be sure to check out vocalist Chris Ware's liner
notes in Eddy Dyer's CD, Explosion
Alone.
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 Eddy
Dyer
<eddy(AT)thatpromising.com
/ www.eddydyer.org>
Some people say the days of the protest song are over. Although
the marriage of folk music and activism has weakened considerably
since the sixties, the tradition is alive and fighting in
Lowell, MA songsmith Eddy Dyer. Though young, Eddy
has been playing music a long time. Ask anyone in the Lowell
music scene about Eddy and they'll be sure to have a story
or two to tell - whether about his punk rock days or about
Eddy as a young juvenile delinquent pulling various pranks
around milltown Lowell. As he grew a bit older, Eddy traded
his amp for an acoustic guitar and mandolin, and traded his
prankster days for a job as a nurse in Mission Hill and a
dedication to political activism that was rare in the cynical
nineties. Eddy has two solo album available and is hard at
work on a third.
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 Summer
Pierre
<summer(AT)summerpierre.com / www.summerpierre.com>
Summer Pierre is one of those people that has art flowing
through her veins instead of blood. Summer is a painter, a
poet, a cartoonist, and one of the most talented songwriters
around. Over the past several years, Summer made a name for
herself in the Boston folk scene, exciting fans with her brilliant
combination of humor and passionate seriousness, vivid imagery
and catchy melodies. She has since returned to her home state
of California, where she has been playing around the Bay area.
Summer's watercolors can be seen on Eddy Dyer's CD
Explosion Alone.
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 Nathan
Pyritz
<nathan(AT)thatpromising.com / www.pyritzdesign.com>
Medford artist/musician Nathan Pyritz is the founder
of That Promising Seadog Media. Nathan started writing
songs as the singer for Indianapolis band Sunny Sea Heaven
in the early nineties. He released a work-in-progress live
solo EP in August of 1998 and released a follow-up studio
EP a year later. In addition to running the label, Nathan
is a graphic designer, and has
done work in scenic design, stage carpentry, and other
theatre jobs. He has performed sporatically with various Boston bands, such as Windmill and Pragnus Gray.
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Audrey Beth Stein
<audrey(AT)thatpromising.com / www.audreybethstein.com>
Audrey has long been an invaluable member of the
tps family. Audrey has helped
us out with some photography work, web design, and publicity
writing. In addition to being a talented writer of both fiction and non-fiction, Audrey teaches several writing classes and workshops in the Boston area.
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 Tomato
Justice
<tomatojustice(AT)thatpromising.com>
Before they broke up in the mid-nineties, Greenwood, IN pop-punk
trio Tomato Justice played tight catchy songs about
high school heartbreak, skating, and the stupidity of Midwest
kids wearing surf clothes. Throw in a couple of rowdy eighties
covers given a Bad Religion-style
makeover, and you end up with happy angry punk rock that makes
you grin. Tomato Justice was bassist/singer Matt Butchko,
guitarist Tom Vincent, and drummer Joe Ziegelbauer, who is
now a punk rock electrical chemist in Boston, where he played—until
recently—for local punk band the High Steppin' Nickel
Kids.
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