{"id":26,"date":"2016-08-04T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2016-08-15T04:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T04:31:29","slug":"ditto-live-at-david-lynch-park-in-beverly-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Ditto live at David Lynch Park in Beverly, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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7\/24\/16\u00a0 6:38 pm\u00a0 One of the best nights of the summer of 2016 was had up at David Lynch Park in Beverly, Massachusetts. \u00a0 People were playing volleyball in the sand, families\u00a0 parked in on the huge lawn, and in the hatch shell performed Ditto, the amazing North Shore band promoting their new CD, Unconditional Love, and showing extraordinary prowess in performing hits of the Beatles, James Taylor, the Rolling Stones, America, Neil Young, Carly Simon and more.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Kimball performed with Simon in the past and when Gary Santarella embraces “You’re So Vain” from a guy’s perspective, it is a thing of beauty.\u00a0 Perhaps the only singer that integrates hits of the pair that performed a duet on “Mockingbird” (though that song is not in the Ditto set) Santarella’s rendition of “Up On The Roof” blends the Drifters with James Taylor and on the water, with a stunning sunset and the wildlife looking for food from the audience, it made for a terrific Sunday afternoon\/evening<\/a> in the middle of summer.\u00a0 Also putting the JT spin on Marvin Gaye’s “How Sweet It Is” (to be loved by you,” and a Neil Young spin on America’s “Sandman,” the versatile group treats each cover song from other artist as if it is part of the group’s own original music catalog. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Village Tavern review May 21, 2016<\/p>\n

Gary Santarella and Roger Kimball are veterans of the New England area music scene, and on Saturday, May 21 they brought their five piece ensemble to the Village Tavern in Salem, where they usually perform as a duo every Saturday from 4 \u2013 7 pm.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Playing their dizzying array of covers \u2013 Santarella goes from the Rolling Stones to Neil Young\/America and beyond. He embraces everything Beatles (both Lennon and McCartney, as schoolmate Brad Delp of the group Boston did for so many years) and James Taylor \u2013 which \u2013 if you close your eyes \u2013 sounds exactly like James Taylor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The five piece Ditto band, which is what they are called as opposed to the Ditto duo or duo of Ditto, had the place rocking, and the focus was on the new CD, Unconditional Love.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t Kick Me When I\u2019m Down,\u201d perhaps the best known of Gary Santarella\u2019s originals having received lots of 50,000 watt airplay in 1986 and heard by many a record executive, to \u201cRocky\u201d \u2013 an irresistible song about a beloved doggy, where the album\u2019s title was drawn from, to \u201cDaddy-O\u201d and what is shaping up to be a regional hit, \u201cPunta Cana.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPunta Cana\u201d has all the elements.\u00a0 Think the vibraphone and joy from Elton John\u2019s \u201cIsland Girl\u201d with the fun of \u201cMargaritaville,\u201d but without Jimmy Buffett\u2019s intentional frivolity.\u00a0 \u201cPunta Cana\u201d is serious, melodic, and the audience responded to it.\u00a0 Great party which they will hopefully replicate in the Boston area, the group mostly touring on the north shore and the Cape Ann area these days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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