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Charley Eastman is one of the most interesting figures in the Mystic music scene:  as one of the two main songwriters in Lotus, the titanic hard rock group, (which also featured Paul Twing sharing songwriting and vocal duties, with Nick Toscano and Tom Lateweic's massive rhythm section) Charley helped create a most unique band that stood on the mountaintop for years while touring nationally.

He left Lotus at the height of their popularity, to follow his muse which led him to start indie rock outfit Mona Gritch - with Doug Hodges on drums, and Roger Peffley tackling bass while leaving his own drum kit behind. Their legacy will be explored more here at the MMA in the future, but when Hodges decided to relocate to NYC, Eastman scrapped the whole Mona Gritch concept and rebuilt the idea as on dasher, which saw Peffley head back behind the drums and former Latex Voodoo guitarist Greg Svetz joining on bass.  (Interestingly, Eastman was unknowingly instrumental to the beginning of Delta of Venus, who bought his sequencer keyboard at their start, and relied heavily upon it).

The on dasher material sparkles within its minimal song structures. Eastman had stripped away anything extraneous to just pure essence in these indie rock gems, and the results are here as evidence.

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