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Name
  
Dennis Diken

Role
  


Music group
  
The Smithereens (Since 1980)

Albums
  
Late Music, Blown to Smithereens, Meet The Smithereens!, Green Thoughts, The Smithereens Play Tom

Similar People
  
Jim Babjak, Pat DiNizio, Mike Mesaros, R Stevie Moore, Chris Butler

Dennis Diken sitting in with The Beach Boys 10/28/14


Dennis Diken (born February 25, 1957) co-founded the New Jersey band The Smithereens. Besides playing with The Smithereens, Dennis is a fill-in DJ on WFMU.

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Diken was born on February 25, 1957, in Belleville, New Jersey.

As a musician and record producer, Diken has worked with The Smithereens, Ben E. King, Mary Weiss of 1960s girl group The Shangri-Las, Dave Amels, and R. Stevie Moore.

In 1996, he guest starred in a Cartoon Network show Space Ghost: Coast to Coast episode, "Anniversary".

In 2002 Diken collaborated with Dave Amels to form the band Husky Team. They released the album "Christmas In Memphis" on the Confidential Recording label.

In 2009 Dennis Diken's first solo album, credited to "Dennis Diken with Bell Sound," entitled "Late Music" was released on Cryptovision Records.

In 2012 Dennis Diken with Bell Sound recorded a version of "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" for a fund raising cd titled "Super Hits Of The Seventies" for radio station WFMU.

Diken was also a judge for the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.

He has recently been playing drums for former Kinks guitarist Dave Davies' solo band.

On December 18, 2015 during Dave Davies’ concert at Islington Assembly Hall in London, Dennis Diken was drumming while Ray Davies joined his brother Dave Davies on stage for "You Really Got Me". It was the first time the two Kinks had performed together in nearly 2 decades.

Dennis diken with bell sound late music sampler


References

Dennis Diken Wikipedia


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