This was written for a recent first album re-issue ;
“The Dentists existed, from the mid-eighties to the mid-nineties, on the fringes of numerous "renaissance of guitar music" movements, psychedelia, trash, mod, C86, paisley underground, britpop, but never threw in their lot with any of them. Who wants to live and die with a scene? The Dentists were different; their own band. Not for them a headlong rush from obscurity to fame and back to oblivion in 2 or 3 years. They spent eleven years on the backburner plotting a slow career trajectory, usually on an upward incline but ultimately not enough to propel them into orbit. It all happened around them as they observed but never quite got to be on the inside looking out.â€
'Bout sums it up!
After Bob's departure, Mick, Mark and Rob recruited a new guitarist and continued for an album as Coax, while Bob became a founder member of Fortune West. After Coax, Mick went on to form Fortress Madonna, with major help from Bob and a little help from Mark. FM released an album and an EP. He now lives and works in Kenya. Â In 2005, Mark and Bob collaborated in The Great Lines, who appeared at SXSW 2005, and there's an unreleased album sitting around waiting, hoping. Mark went on to front The Echo Heights, whose first album "Your Fortune As Told By The Stars" was released in 2008. Ian continues to drum for The Armitage Shanks and Bob pursues his own solo endeavours helped out by Mr Rob Grigg on drums.
But of course now they are all coming together again for a wonderful weekend of Dentistry in March with two very long awaited reunion gigs in the UK.
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