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DINNER WITH THE BROWNS

1980 - 1989 Band from San Jose, California

"Dinner with the Browns" was a pop wave band during 1984 to 1989 in the Santa Clara County of California. This was a group consisting of Drummer, singer (Kaye Walden), Lead Guitarist - songwriter, singer (Dave Sabo), Guitarist, keyboards - songwriter, singer (Mick Brown), Bassist - production, sound (Elliot Koch). DWTB had around 60 original songs. Some where played on college radio stations "KSJS, KSCU, KFJC" in the bay area of northern California, like "4 O'clock commuter blues, Bill's theme, She's too good, Anti-social disease.

DWTB with several other bands formed a collective which was named "First Strike Collective", to work together for creating a local scene and use each others support fan base. They invaded a dying restaurant-bar "The Laundry Works" and this became the beginnings of a musical local original music scene of bands, journalist, photographers, sound-guys and self-promoting.

DWTB recorded their first single "That's Right" and then their studio EP "Filet of Sole". Later a collective album "All Washed Up" which was live recordings of many bands in the collective closing out the "last days of the Laundry Works". This was a three day event that went down in history locally. Now one of the bands in the collective was Grey Matter which started a club in San Jose, "The Cactus Club" and it became well known supporting touring bands Nirvana. Also another band "The Kingpins" became winners on "Ed McMahon Star Search TV show". One of the local favorites was "Frontier Wifes", featuring Lex Vanderburg who later was on one of the Survival shows. "Heroric Airmen" was a band that didn't really create any buzz but the guitarist later became famous as the songwriter-guitarist "Greg Camp" of "Smash Mouth".

Little did we all know at the time that 25 years later we would have a reunion in San Jose held at the "Club Rodeo", and many came from various states to capture fond memories and some regrouped to play again!

Discography

Dinner with the Browns
 * That's Right (demo) 1984
 * 4 o'clock commuter blues (Fillet of Sole -EP) 1986 (lyrics by Mick Brown, arrangement by DWTB)
 * Do you want to be with me (Fillet of Sole -EP) 1986 (written by Dave Sabo)
 * Bill's Theme (All Washed Up compilation album 1986 (written by Mick Brown)
 * She's to Good (single) 1987 (written by Mick Brown)
 * What do we do (demo) 1988 (written by Dave Sabo)
 * Black leather madness (Fillet of Sole-EP) 1986 (written by Dave Sabo, arrangement by DWTB)
 * Old Man (demo) 1989 (written by Mick Brown)

Kaye Walden
Drummer for DWTB 1984-1989, 2SEX 1982-1983, The Thirteen Step 1981-1982,The Crymatix 1976-1980, Reed Evans Tribute to Elvis 1973-1974, Nightflight 1972-1975, Kaye's solo recording of louie louie (arrangement by Kaye Walden)1983, stop hey what's that sound (arrangement by The Crymatix) 1979