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Episode 81: Fluxedo Junction Radio - 5/18/24 (Dennis Diken of The Smithereens)
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WBCQ/The Planet airdate - 5/18/24 Welcome to Fluxedo Junction! Each week we bring you the best music of all genres from throughout the world, and this week we'll be speaking with Dennis Diken - drummer, DJ, author, music historian, and founding member of the band the Smithereens, which he formed in 1980 with Pat DiNizio, Jim Babjak, and Mike Mesaros in Carteret, New Jersey. Besides playing with the Smithereens, Diken is a fill-in DJ on WFMU as well as a liner notes author and reissue project researcher. As a musician, Diken has recorded or toured with, among others, Ronnie Spector, Dave Davies, Nancy Sinatra, Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las, and Ben E. King, and worked with musicians such as Dave Amels and R. Stevie Moore.
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