Train Going Nowhere, by Dino DiMuro

Train Going Nowhere

by Dino DiMuro

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1.	Monsters In The Night 04:18		buy track
2.	Train Going Nowhere 04:21		buy track
3.	The Grid 06:11		buy track
4.	Twilight Games 02:45	info	buy track
5.	Slept Through My Death 03:15		buy track
6.	Pablo and Tracy's Acid Party 04:09		buy track
7.	On The Coast Starlight 02:29		buy track
8.	Just Help Yourself 04:55		buy track
9.	Surrounded By Love 01:01		buy track
10.	Talkin' With The Wise Guy 04:58		buy track
11.	Heaven At Half Price 04:49		buy track
12.	Slept Through My Death (Demo) 03:14		buy track
13.	Pablo and Tracy (Demo) 04:04		buy track
14.	Talkin' To The Wise Guy (Demo) 04:34		buy track
15.	Traversing The (Shorter) Grid (Demo) 03:55		buy track
16.	Deon (Demo) 03:13		buy track
17.	Twilight Games (early version) 02:49		buy track
18.	We're Talking The Internex (Demo) 05:16		buy track
19.	Dragging The Lake For The Carcass of Finn (Demo) 03:39		buy track
20.	Krantz The Unfunny Comedian (Demo) 05:36		buy track
21.	Heaven At Half Price (original extended version) 08:57		buy track
22.	Monsters In The Night (Demo) 04:02		buy track

about

TRAIN GOING NOWHERE is my only album largely recorded in professional studios: 24-track analogue at Valley Center, and 8-track digital at J-Lab. The few tracks recorded at home were also mastered at the studios.

My very first CD release, THE SIMPLE CHANCE OF LIFE, had come out shortly before the birth of my son Friday; as a result, most copies of that album wound up under my bed. However, in this same time period my Grandmother died and left me $5000, which became my budget for recording at Valley Center Studios, where I had tracked the drums for SIMPLE CHANCE. Knowing that raising our first child would take an inordinate amount of time and effort, I purposely crafted a stripped-down Rock album with lots of guests.

However, midway through the sessions, with 24-track masters only half finished, my wife suddenly balked about handing over the completion money. At one point I considered burning the tapes as a kind of Art Protest, but instead recorded what I could at home, and even sold off most of my record and CD collection to scrape up studio time. When this “stripped down Rock album” was finally mastered (a spectacular job by Judson Leach) it had been nearly six years since SIMPLE CHANCE.

As I mentioned, there are MANY guests on this album. Returning from SIMPLE CHANCE is Kye (Kevin) Fowler singing lead on The Grid and Pablo and Tracy’s Acid Party. Chris Assells and new player Mike Reagan jammed along to The Grid. Jay Richardson again provided classy Sax fills here and there. Don Campau and Robin Obrien sing backup on Twilight Games. Alan Rankin returns for a blazing solo on Train Going Nowhere. Even my wife Julie is caught singing a lullaby to Baby Friday. And underpinning it all is Terry Rodman on drums and exotic percussion, making his second appearance for me.

For hardcore listeners, this album was surprisingly tame, which would have made sense if produced and released in a year or so. For everybody else, this may be the most accessible of my albums and is certainly the best-produced.

Finally, I must give props to Ace Photographer Peter Michael Sullivan, who scouted locations with me and came up with the striking photo booklet of rotting train tracks, using one of those old cameras with the giant negatives and the little hood you crouch under.

This upload features a few demo recordings to which Terry Rodman played along with in the studio, plus others that were abandoned for lack of funds or other reasons.

credits

released June 1, 2000

Dino DiMuro: Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Terry Rodman: Drums and Percussion
Tony Lamberti: Digital Drums
Featuring...
Alan Rankin: Lead and Crunch Guitar (2,5)
Chris Assells: Lead Guitar (3,11, 21)
Mike Reagan: Slide Guitar (3)
Jay Richardson: Sax (3,8)
Kevin Fowler: Vocal (3,6)
Don Campau and Robin O'Brien: Backing Vocals (4)
BB Russell: Drone and Sitar-Guitar (6)
Linda DeFranco: Vocal (6)
Julie DiMuro: Vocal (9)

Live Drums, overdubs, pre-mixing: Dave Jenkins at Valley Center Studios, Van Nuys CA
Final overdubs, mixing and mastering: Judson Leach at J-Lab, Hollywood
Photography by Peter Michael Sullivan
Thank You: Dan Rich, Mark Ormandy, Beth Sterner, Bill Hollingsworth, MARY LOU, and Paul Poduska, Daniel Kerr and Darren Knaus in the Soundelux Library
Love and Family Values to Julie, Friday George, and Elizabeth Ann

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Dino DiMuro Los Angeles, California

Dino has been self-producing CDs and cassettes since the mid-80’s. After a short career as a rock guitarist in a band for hire (once opening for Van Halen), Dino released a series of albums in the 80’s and 90’s, while also reviewing for Option magazine. Dino’s music has been described as “Walt Disney on Acid” and is most often compared to Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, & They Might Be Giants. ... more

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