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Where does our name come from? Yes, it came from a dictionary.
National distribution with DROG/Outside, a Tour of Germany
in July, a second self titled release under their belts,
festivals, Toronto Management, warm up shows and gigs across
the province; Guelph's best kept secret is the Dissemblers.
Led by the unforgettable Sean Danby, a crazed hand
dancing singer with a voice and charisma of locomotive proportions,
Dissemblers are a collective force of song writers who blend
together their many musical influences with well thought
out arrangements, using stratocastor guitars. Tinges of
folk, country, and blues are scattered throughout what is
best described as infectious pop rock.
DISSEMBLERS,
the self titled second album, offers fifteen new songs featuring
a cross section of musical styles that rocks and grooves.
A video for "Picture Show", the first release off
DISSEMBLERS, will be released to video networks in
March as well. The Dissemblers have opened for Big Sugar,
Rheostatics, Sky
Diggers, The Sidemen, Lewis
Melville, played Hillside Music Festival
in 1994, the 1996 Rock and Twang Festivals (in Ontario
and B.C.) and 1997's NXNE festival in Toronto.
Important biological history of Dissemblers starts with
the band Dizzy Maroon
from which Sean Danby, Dave Teichroeb and
Michael Ostler were born in 1987 at a jam night in
Guelph. That high energy blues rock outfit transmuted into
a very polished, approachable rock creation called Dissemblers
with the addition of Mac Cole (east coast drummer
who toured with Haywire)
and Steve Wade on lead (famous Guelph musicologist).
Their first album, "Talk
To Me", was released nationally on CD by DROG,
winter 1994 and had a folk/rock sound and was sans Sean
who joined the night of the release.
Their live shows crackle with energy. Lead singer Sean
Danby demands attention as he sweats and howls against the
double guitar attack and the tight rhythm section. Occasional
turns at the lead vocals by most members makes a Dissemblers
show anything but routine. The sets are mostly original
but can easily slide into well chosen cover tunes to keep
things jumping. Oh, and a caution, the Dissemblers might
make you laugh and drink beer - not unlike a salty celtic
band. They are pretty good as a hockey line and only ok
at pool; challenges accepted.
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