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Wikipedia style Davis-centric search engine
Davis Wiki Current Davis Music Scene here
Davis Wiki Significant Davis bands here 
Donnie Jupiter 
(Twinkeyz lead singer songwriter) 
Twinkeyz page here
"The Twinkeyz released three singles and an LP 
and played about seven or eight gigs before the band broke up in 1980."

Anopheles Records
The Twinkeyz are the "missing link" between the 
Sacramento Valley 60s garage band scene 
(Oxford Circle, the Public Nuisance) 
to 80s Paisley Underground heroes 
originating from the tiny Davis/Sacramento 
cluster of groups of the late '70s/early '80s
(Dream Syndicate, Game Theory, True West).
Suspects MP3s 
here
True West and The Dream Syndicate 
...driving, feedback-laden, psychedelic, guitar-drenched rock 
and were lumped into what was dubbed the 
"Paisley Underground" and "Big Guitar Band" movements.
Steve Wynn
Suspects, Dream Syndicate
Kendra Smith - Suspects, Dream Syndicate, Opal, Mazzy Star 
http://www.mazzystar.nu/web/related/kendrasmith.asp 

Sean O'Brien
(The Meantime, True West)
Game Theory/The Loud Family
Russ Tolman Meets Tom Verlaine

True West Reunion


Thin White Rope label


Thin White Rope
Fan site associated with TWR MySpace page
He is organizing a tribute collection of TWR songs

Bad Babelfish translation of
Guy Kyser interview from link above

ML Compton
Thin White Rope Friend and tour manager
Great TWR tour stories on his MySpace page


Mummydogs

Gui Gassuan (Game Theory/bass 1986-88)

Donnette Thayer (Game Theory guitar 1986-88)


(Photo Robert's Game Theory page)


(Game Theory/Loud Family/Gil Ray/Anton Barbeau)


(1988-93)

Buick


Sacramento punk site

Paradise lost across the causeway
Ten years ago, Davis was being touted as a music mecca,

along the lines of Athens or Seattle. What happened?

"Bands realized that just because they're on a label,
it doesn't meant they have a career.
It's almost calculated to break the spirit of the band.
The labels have a real shotgun approach these days.
They sign a lot of stuff and see what sticks to the wall.
They build up a band's ego, release their record, but won't promote it,
so it fails and the band gets dropped."
Guy Kyser T
hin White Rope, Mummydogs

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