The Dark Young

A bit more background for those who don't feel like going to MySpace rightaway.

Manny Arenas on MySpace wrote: About The Dark Young Hello, my name is Manny, and I was the front man for the strange and wonderful band, The Dark Young. We were a Gothic/Art-Rock/Performance-poetry outfit, and we confused booking agents and rock club crowds from 1991-1995. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my creative life. Our sound was something like mid-70's King Crimson, but we also had the poetry aspect (which is where the Goth part came in). Aside from our crimsonesque originals, we played covers of everything from "Bluejay Way", by the Beatles, and "Down in the Hole", by Tom Waits, to the old tango song "Sus Ojos Se Cerraron", by Carlos Gardel, and the art song "Polo", by Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. I also have a fond memory of playing parts of King Crimson's "Doctor Diamond", and Deep Purple's "Bloodsucker" both on the same night at the Middle East bakery in Boston! We rocked the sh*t out of that coffee house, and they loved it! We put out one official studio recording on cassette tape (!) and did a few odd recordings here and there afterwards, which were never officially released. There are plenty live recirdings of the band, which I hope to clean up and try to release someday upon an unsuspecting world. I shall do my best to find as much material on the band and post it on this site as a tribute to all of the hard work we put into this creative project. So, take a look around and listen to some tunes, once they're posted, and check out a Boston band that didn't sound like anything else around at the time!

I sampled a few tracks, and I think the material is definitely worth checking out by those of us who enjoy KC, VDGG and The Who - the three of them mentioned as the main influences of the band. Don't be fooled though, tracks like "What we think is beautiful" have nothing to do with ITCOTCK era KC. Gosh, all these acronyms look ugly...

Check it out - thanks for pointing us to this one, Rivertree. And I hope Manny gets around to releasing these live recordings on a more solid medium than tape some time soon.