Aged 15, he idolised Oasis and Blur, he says, plus Richard Hawley's former outfit the Longpigs and "some weird ones, like Swede... er, sorry, no: Suede".
Following on from 2004's excellent Happiness in Magazines, the guitarist now has a palette of songs to rival his former outfit.
The tradition endures in the underground with bands such as Toro Y Moi and Sic Alps (one of Segall's former outfits) putting out limited edition cassette-only runs, and in hip hop, with its hotbed of mixtapes.
As though they weren't already a band apart, by dint of their former outfit, At The Drive-In, and their out-there music, the Texan-born, LA-based band are on terribly familiar terms with tragic ends.
The former outfit featured Berkley Jones on lead guitar, Joni Haastrup on keyboards, Friday Puzzo on congas and for a short time, Ginger Baker on drums, before Baker absconded with all the musicians bar Tee Mac to form his own group, Salt.
The band -- which includes Gus Vigo, keyboardist; Bruce Wigdor, bassist; and Casey Lepearl and Ivan Funk, drummers -- was formed in 1995, in the waning months of Mr. Diomede's former outfit, Solar Circus, a group that played original songs along with Grateful Dead and classic rock covers.
In New York City, a computer consultant lives in a former garage outfitted with twin sleeping pods made from an oil truck tank.
One former rebel outfit, the Shan State Army-North, dropped out of the convention in protest.In the meantime, a purge of officials loyal to Khin Nyunt, a senior member of the junta ousted last year, continues apace.
TechSys, a former dialysis outfit, is on the verge of being delisted from Nasdaq.
The former La Liga outfit is trying to raise much-needed funds and capital to stay in business and survive.
