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Donald Keesing → whatwave dave: Boy howdy and thanks- this is a really cool site! And thanks so much for your support of Dollar Bin. We're being incredibly lucky and getting positive attention and feedback for from very unlikely sources to say the least for an unknown DIY run of 300 CDs... moreBoy howdy and thanks- this is a really cool site! And thanks so much for your support of Dollar Bin. We're being incredibly lucky and getting positive attention and feedback for from very unlikely sources to say the least for an unknown DIY run of 300 CDs by the brokest, leanest, hungriest middle aged bastards ever. But our story is super interesting to geeks and as one it would be interesting to me too I'm certain. No wonder they all hate us in DC-haha. But THAT is NOT something you can plan and was totally off the radar in 1990 when me and Randy did the band Mink Ranch. A geezer punk scene happened and we saw a chance to jump. Scene's seems pretty dead now sadly, but all of the honest clubs in DC have had unaccountable probs. And we're all to proud and poor to play for nothing or for live music clubs that "pay the extra staff" out of the door. Extra staff!!!!??? You're a goddam LIVE MUSIC CLUB- that's why you exist... Pshaw. Cheers! less
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Donald Keesing → Angel Baby: Thanks for friending me- appreciate it- keep doing what yer doing
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Donald Keesing → Shit Music For Shit People: Shit music- excellent! Gald to be found by such a fine concept!
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Donald Keesing → Jules: Thanks and all the very best!
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Personal Information
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First Name
Donald
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Last Name
Keesing
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Gender
Male
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Birthdate
May 26, 1965
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Location:
Athens, GA
Personal Details
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Bio
Donald Keesing started his career with D.C. punk band White Zombies in 1982. In 1988 and 1989 he sang and played guitar for psychedelic band Rain Crow. Currently he was recently the frontman for Dollar Bin garage punk psychedelic vets DC/Baltimore now on hiatus. An environmental activist, Keesing often plays benefits and rallies. Don is starting a garage band, The Blue Steel Smokers in his new home of Athens, GA
Reviews and press-
Big Takeover 66-30th Anniversary issue- Dollar Bin- Hug Me Or I Shall Destroy You- Donkee Records 2009-“stylistic grab-bag, encompassing bluesy rock, garage, country, surf and Hawaiian music…the playing is casual, loose and shambolic, it also oozes rock ‘n’ roll...this album perfectly captures the experience of one of those aimless, bleary-eyed bar-hoppers.”-Mark Suppanz
Donald Keesing- The Aztec Heart Treatment- Donkee Records 2000- "The album is a delightfully demented romp through a musical landscape dotted with psychedelia, country, punk, folk, 60's garage, slippery saxophone and the-sound-of-things-falling-apart grooves. Keesing's smoky baritone provides the narrative focus while a cast of thousands- including Honeypole's Norman van der Sluys and the Black Cat's Bernie Wandel- provides the backdrop. The texture is dense yet atmospheric; think of the Kingdom of Leisure meets However. "The Aztec Heart Treatment" definitely stands up to repeat listenings- just when you think Keesing has done it all, he pulls another rabbit out of his hat. This one's a winner." - Marcus Esposito, Snap Pop, June 2000
"Donald Keesing produced The Aztec Heat Treatment in 2000, but I just learned about it a couple weeks ago. Despite Keesing's presence in the Washington DC punk community for more than twenty years, his cd remained a mystery until recently. I don't know how this came to be, but I think I'd have formed a drastically kinder view of pop music had I heard this when he first recorded these songs.
I have long harbored disdain for pop music, dismissing it as the sad country cousin to real rock. Some things snared my esteem like the Police, the Cars, and the Knack, but for me, the best practitioner of Pop has always been a tie between Bowie and the Kinks. I don't think it any stretch to include Donald Keesing in this august company; his lyrics, his able fusion of humor and melancholy, and the capacity to write catchy tunes which stick in my head hours after hearing them all embody what I wish Pop music would do, instead