Anyway, tripping about the interwebs, invented thankfully in the intervening years, I found this delightful short film by Emily Hubley. Hublely has gone on to a successful career as an animator - and the dBs? Well, who knows, and if the song seems a little light on, well, such were the times.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The dBs
Where did The dBs come from and what the heck became of them? In the days when I lived on student wages and the intrawebs were the fanciful dream of the cider-deluded engineering student, The dBs were band that cast a beautiful shadow. They never toured to Perth, though Peter Holsapple joined REM on the road, and never seemed to be written about. There was a lovely sense of mystery about them, not quite like early Belle & Sebastian but maybe not far off. Enough to say that The dBs played a style of pop that was embraced by many, including I think, Dom Mariani (then and still a charming man).
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Holsapple was in a band called the Continental Drifters after the dB's, based in New Orleans, where he lived for 13 years. Like so many of us, he's a Katrina refugee, relocated now to his home state of North Carolina. He's got a nice blog -- http://halfpearblog.blogspot.com/ -- and I see he's got some stuff up there now about a recent trip back to N.O.
Chris Stamey has released a couple of great solo albums (including It's Alright in 1987 and Travels in the South in 2004) and Stamey and Holsapple released a very good album together the early 90s called Mavericks (and have a brand-new one that just came out about a month ago called Here and Now).
The dBs supposedly began working on a new album in 2005, but it hasn't seemed to be a huge priority and their website now says it may come out in "winter 2009" (which maybe means December).
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