.....So I was watching TV one day, surfing the channels, and the MTV News came on. "What the heck", I thought, "why not"? I think this was November or December of 1994.
They started talking about a new site on the World Wide Web called the
Internet Underground Music Archive, a place that was featuring downloadable music from and information about unsigned bands. "Cool idea", I thought, having just gotten my hands on a computer that summer.So they interviewed the guys who started the web site, who talked about why they started it and what they hoped to accomplish and....
Then the announcer went into a "one band that has gotten exposure" transition to the next part of the feature.
Suddenly I was going "uh-uh-uh" and pointing speechlessly at the tube for Stephanie and Jackie because
Then it got even weirder!
Suddenly they were interviewing the band!
There was
Gary on the TV, bouzouki in hand, and if I was "speechless" before that I don't know how to describe my state by this time...
You should check out the IUMA feature on
for yourself. Read about how they have received strong notices in the pages of Interview Magazine, NY Newsday, The Boston Globe, New York Press, The Chicago Tribune and The New York Post, who called them "top players sitting on the edge of the big time."
"The songs are great" - CMJ
Later On!
Dave Garet