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About Me

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Some of you may know Jocey and I from the 80's Fresno punk band Capitol Punishment . In '95 after that band broke up I continued working on other bands and musical projects as Jocey took a break from playing bass. The last project right before the Dustups was an ill-fated cover band that was a musical illustration of the development of punk throughout the history of rock. Sounded like a good idea at the time, but in '02 after a negative review it was time to go back to the drawing board. In writing new material a soul-searching analysis of purpose followed. Having been a punk ideologue for many years, it was painful to watch that scene fragment and morph in the late 90's into something that had in my opinion lost it's original ideals. Most of the people I considered visionary from the 80's either went away or passed away. But the one constant thing throughout the years has been our love of music in general and Democratic politics. Getting emotional over political issues, old pop songs, music from movies and live performances of all types has always been fuel for the fire. Favorite mix tapes from the 80's usually had punk on one side and either rockabilly, post-punk, pop or comedy on the other. This project is an attempt to get back to that Eden of primal music and yet move on to something new and mature.
In a quest for the big reasons why I end up back at the political lyrics of the folk singers of the protest era, the cool groove of the earliest rockers, the art of the masters of songwriting and punk pragmatism. I hope we synthesized these elements into something good and meaningful.
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It's nice to be with a winner

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/8/2006
Band Website: stagedive-records.com
Band Members: Dale Stewart-Vocals & Guitar
Joceylin Fedrau-Bass
Mayumi-Djembe, Conga, Doumbek, various percussion and
Native American Flute

Influences: Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Bill Doggett, Link Wray, Lonnie Mack, Travis Wammack, Danny Gatton, The Wipers, The Mutants, The Subtractions, Bad Brains, Fresno Punk Bands '79-'86, Middle Class, Jello Biafra, Rhino 39, The Cramps, Lene Lovich,Brian Eno, Roxy Music, The Raybeats, The Saints, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Billy Bragg, The Hives, and The Apocalypse Dudes. Buddy Johnson, Ronnie Laws, The Swingle Singers, Philip Glass, Pink Lady, Nigel Tufnel, Lucia Pamela, Buddy & Bunny Burden and the Guy Guys.

Washington Journal, Capital News, C-SPAN, The Daily Kos
Bear Grylls, Mike Rowe, Ian Wright, Meagan McCormick,
The Magical Surfers
KPFA, KFCF, KFSR, KVPR,NPR,KNYE

By Grabthar's hammer I like this movie

The Best Barack Obama Myspace Page, Speaker Pelosi, Brian Lamb, Al Franken, The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, Tim Yohannon, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Ansel Adams.

Dustups-Enronomics Live at the Milano 26JAN08
Little Dude likes dog food 13OCT07 Award winning song
M Ward on Conan

Janelle & Tommy doing Already Gone

Kyu Sakamoto does Sukiyaki:

Sounds Like:

Record Label: StageDiveRecords
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Gig flyers torn down by Fresno City Code Enforcement 27FEB08

I was at Livingstone's yesterday afternoon and saw a guy methodically taking down gig flyers from the telephone poles at the Bank of America, Livingstones and the Starline. At first I thought it was a...
Posted by the Dustups on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:28:00 PST

Nearly twice as many Dems voted tuesday 10FEB08

As of Thursday, Feb 7 with 99% of California Precincts reporting, nearly twice as many Democrats voted in this Primary than did the Republicans. That is a significant number and reveals an energized e...
Posted by the Dustups on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:04:00 PST

Why I like Barack for President 31JAN08

Don't get me wrong I like The Clintons. She would definitely bring more policy expertise to the office than Barack. And coupled with her husband they would be a powerhouse of policy development. But, ...
Posted by the Dustups on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:52:00 PST

Hillary Clinton at Fresno High 22OCT07

It was a good speech. She doesn't need notes. Very well thought out. Support the troops not the war. After the speech she greeted folks. All the waving hands hoping to get an autograph or a hand...
Posted by the Dustups on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:52:00 PST

File sharing hurts Local Independent musicians too 9OCT07

Making this argument is like standing in the middle of highway 99 and trying to stop a giant tractor- trailer rig headed right at me. But, I've been thinking about this for a couple years now and I ha...
Posted by the Dustups on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:27:00 PST

Dems CNN/YouTube debate fresh and interesting 23JULY07

It was such a smart move for CNN to partner with online video site YouTube to sponsor this debate. It puts the old cable news organization on the high road to being up to date with the no...
Posted by the Dustups on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:56:00 PST

Train derailment at McKinley and Blackstone Fresno 19June07

The derailment today (19jun07) at McKinley and Blackstone is another exclamation point for the Rail Consolidation struggle. These railroad tracks cut right through the heart of town. Thousands of peo...
Posted by the Dustups on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:40:00 PST

The Unraveling of the Neocon Agenda

On November 7th the American people spoke loudly to the Republicans: "Throw the bums out!" We Democrats didn't win just The House of Representatives and The Senate but, also the majority of Governor...
Posted by the Dustups on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:05:00 PST

My Polling Place

When we moved to the Tower district from Clovis in '92 our polling place was the Shrine of St. Therese on Floradora and Wishon. But a couple years later, when we voted again it was moved to Heaton sch...
Posted by the Dustups on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:41:00 PST

A spring in my step 7nov06

A spring in my step and a smile on my faceAs we walked up to our polling placeThe polls gave me hope that we would win itFirst we got the House and then the SenateThe counting is done and a couple day...
Posted by the Dustups on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:18:00 PST