Name: LOD25 Dead Äire & Friends - "A Tribute To The Music Of Pat DiNizio and The Smithereens"
Start: 2025-01-18T12:30:00-05:00
Location: Tim McLoone's Supper Club

$LOD25 Dead \u00c4ire & Friends - "A Tribute To The Music Of Pat DiNizio and The Smithereens"$

Tim Mcloones Supper Club
Door: 11:30am - Show: 12:30pm
We're honored to support the Light of Day Foundation and to be the house band for this special tribute to Pat DiNizio and The Smithereens! Special guest vocalists TO BE ANNOUNCED!
Pat DiNizio was the lead singer, songwriter and founding member of the band The Smithereens, which he formed in 1980 with Jim Babjak, Dennis Diken and Mike Mesaros from Carteret, New Jersey.
The Smithereens are an American rock band from Carteret, New Jersey. The group formed in 1980 with members Pat DiNizio (vocals and guitar), Jim Babjak (guitar and vocals), Mike Mesaros (bass guitar and vocals), and Dennis Diken (drums and percussion). This original lineup continued until 2006, when Mesaros left the band and Severo Jornacion took over on bass guitar until Mesaros' return in 2016. After DiNizio died in 2017, the band continued performing live shows as a trio (Babjak, Mesaros and Diken) with guest vocalists, primarily Marshall Crenshaw and Robin Wilson.
The band had a string of hits in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, including "Only a Memory", "A Girl Like You" and "Too Much Passion". The Smithereens have collaborated with numerous musicians, both in the studio (Belinda Carlisle, Julian Lennon, Lou Reed, Suzanne Vega) and live (Otis Blackwell, Graham Parker and The Kinks). The band named themselves after a favorite word of cartoon character Yosemite Sam.