Translator!
The excellent Retro Music Snob blog recently featured a tune from Translator, and I felt compelled to do a little update.
Translator formed in Los Angeles in the late-seventies and relocated to San Fransisco. The band got it's first record deal after submitting a demo version of Everywhere that I'm Not -- the song for which they would be best known.
The band fell apart after releasing it's last album, Evening of the Harvest, in 1986. There were brief attempts at reuniting in 1993 and 1995, and Translator did play a series of reunion shows at the 2006 South by Southwest Conference.
An interesting tidbit from the All Music Guide: (In the mid-nineties) Beatles fans alerted the world via Internet and fanzines that the Fab Three had re-recorded a version of the Beatles instrumental "Cry For a Shadow" during the Anthology sessions. The tape was later found to be an old Translator B-side.
Singer-guitarist Steve Barton released his third solo album, Flicker of Time, in June of 2007 -- tunes can be sampled at his MySpace page (link below).
As for the rest of the band, the Translator official MySpace page says: All members of the band continue to play music in some form: Dave Scheff immediately joined Winter Hours for a brief spell and is currently the drummer in the house band at the world renowned San Francisco show Teatro Zinzanni, Larry Dekker has provided his powerful melodic bass playing with a variety of bands, Bob Darlington (guitars/vocals) continues to perform his haunting evocative songs.
All four of the band's albums have all been re-released and can be found on Amazon. Translator music can also be found on iTunes.
Translator - Everywhere That I'm Not
Links:
Translator Official MySpace
Steve Barton's Website
Steve Barton on MySpace
Robert Darlington Interview
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