Dan Politano – January/February 2005
Who: Dan Politano
What: light rock
Where: Victoria, BC
To Contact: 994 Snowdrop Ave., Victoria, BC V8Z 2N4 (250) 881-2838, info@danpolitano.com, www.danpolitano.com.
The 24-year-old self-taught guitarist readily admits in his bio that he’s influenced by fellow Canadian Bryan Adams and one can hear it in his raspy voice. He thanks Adams, as well as Goo Goo Dolls and The Beatles in the liner notes of his debut album, Back Where I Started. Self-produced at Scott Henderson’s Collwood, BC basement studio, charmingly called Sea Of Shit Studios, the singer-songwriter rounded up his twin brother, Mike, on drums, but handles all the guitars and bass himself. Essentially mild rockers, “Smile” and “Ready To Go”, are fairly straight-ahead, while the next, “Innocence Arose”, steps it up a little and if reproduced could have some fierce pop/rock power. Lyrically, he covers everything from a long-distance love affair (“New Zealand”) to the life of an HIV-infected street kid (“Givin’ It All”). Politano, whose father, Bryan, fronted Roxxlyde and now That ’70s Band, received his first guitar and Beatles songbook from his grandparents, which lead to him writing his first song at age 10. All the songs on Back Where I Started could benefit from a producer and better recording to pump them up.
