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RIP: The Transistor Sun has set...we had a good run but have all moved on to other projects. You can catch Eric Weaver and Terry Dinneen in Headbanger - the 80s hair-metal tribute band...and you can catch Eric West playing bass & lending vocals to local punk rockers The Ghost of Saturday Nite. Thanks to all of the fans, critics, fellow musicians, and clubs who've supported us.

After working together at Harry's Guitar Shop in Raleigh NC, Terry Dineen and Eric West dabbled in eachother's acoustic projects before joining forces electrically in 2006 as Transistor Sun along with uber-drummer Eric Weaver. The band imediately began work on their self-titled debut album. The Independent Weekly reviewed Transistor Sun's self-produced CD and had this to say about it:

"Big Radio Diamond" is a fitting opening track for the eponymous debut LP from Transistor Sun, the Raleigh trio of rock 'n' roll veterans Eric West, Eric Weaver and Terry Dineen: "The road leads nowhere/ but the engine, she won't quit," West sings in his gruff-glam way, adding just one more couplet before launching straight into a three-voice chorus that winks as it nods. These lines are more like an invocation than a thesis, setting the tone and the playful tension without delivering the details just yet. Instead, the specifics are manifested through the next 10 tracks, all mostly built from a power-pop core that's resurfaced with the grit of distorted guitars and slightly aggressive vocals.

Those minutiae are about getting older and being enticed by the same things while knowing they're not good for you: Hapless characters abound, like the always-upper girl in the delicious "Drive All Night" who's "dancing on the edge of a knife," or the irritant title character of the sneering "Miss Miscommunication." She's a bad habit without regard for West's state of mind, but she—as he puts it—keeps him firm in her grips. On the slinking "King Snake Devil Regalia," Transistor Sun puts the bounce aside for a rare mid-album reflection: Here, above surprising chord changes, West resigns himself to the talisman, wicked though it may be, asking, "Can you believe it's me? I'm chasing your tigers." After all, Transistor Sun is about celebrating old habits—loving, starting over, having fun, playing rock that splices from Cheap Trick, Guided by Voices and KISS—all over again.

-GRAYSON CURRIN, INDEPENDENT WEEKLY

Transistor Sun's debut CD can be dowloaded or purchased from CD Baby JUST CLICK HERE .

CANCELLED:

SATURDAY MAY 24th, at BREWBALLS located at 3730 S. Church St. in Burlington NC. The show starts at 10pm.

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