Chrome Dinette Concert Posters from 1982

Chrome Dinette

Chrome Dinette was a San Francisco area band in the early 1980's. I was living in Berkeley at the time, right around the corner from the Keystone (which has since become a pharmacy, or maybe a phone company store...), and Chrome Dinette used to play there occasionally.

Even before I saw them live, I thought they had an incredibly cool name for a band. And once I saw them, I was hooked! I didn't make it to the record release party, but I was at the other two conerts.

Chrome Dinette consisted of:

  • Chris Witt Ketner - instruments and vocals
  • Terry Thorn - synthesized percussion, vocals, drums
  • Adam Greiffer - guitar, synthesizer, vocals

    • In 1982, the band put out a 12" single (Robot Love and Can't Live Without You) and (so the story goes) went to work trying to get a record contract.

    When the contract didn't materialize, the band broke up. Chris Witt Ketner started another band, called Zulu Pool. I have no idea what's happened to any of the members since then... maybe someday they'll be out surfing the net and drop by...

    My favorite Chrome Dinette song was called Lolita, based very loosely on the novel of the same name... how did it go?

    I remember when I was back in school,
    I never knew a girl who looked like you;
    Now I work for the Phone Company,
    And every asshole there looks just like me.

    Lolita, Lolita.
    Lolita, Lolita.
    I dream about you...

    So... if anybody from the band, or anybody who has any old tapes of the band, ever happens by... or even anybody who remembers Chrome Dinette... email me. 'Specially if you have tapes!

    Maintained by Charles Wolff - charles@phx.mcd.mot.com; last updated 30 Jul 1996

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