Always ready to get into the spirit of Christmas, the boys recorded several original Christmas songs – the most well known being Red Lights (Merry Christmas) and this melancholy chestnut “Just For Christmas” (listen above). Recorded in Athens in 1990, it features a faux mandolin track played by Peter Stroud who joined the group after…
Filmed on location in Death Valley, California and in a Hollywood studio in February, 1989, this video was the second music video produced for Arista Records and was directed by Neil Abramson. Abramson, a native South African directed videos for Mark Knoffler, Dwight Yokum, Debbie Harry and more and went on to become a director/producer of…
Filmed in Hollywood, the music video for Rough Night in Jericho was directed by Matt Mahurin, a noted illustrator, photographer, and film director. Along with Dreams So Real, Mahurin’s music video credits include U2, Tracy Chapman, Metallica, and Alice In Chains. The video was filmed and produced in the fall of 1988.
Recorded on an 8-track reel-to-reel in Trent and Drew’s old apartment in Athens, this song was one of a group of post-Gloryline demos after the band had pretty much called it quits. But a close listen shows the song fits right in to the classic DSR genre and features a lyric that metaphorically foreshadows the…
In 1990 promoting the release of Gloryline, Barry and Trent traveled to NYC to be a guest on the Soho Natural Sessions, a syndicated radio program hosted by Smithereens singer-songwriter Pat DiNizio. Here’s the acoustic performance from that show of the track… “Faith.”