Terri Dimarco Pacific Ocean CD

It was 1972 in Pueblo, Colorado when a young lass named Terri first picked up the $30 Silvertone acoustic guitar from Sears. She had watched her older brother Chuck strumming this piece of wood, and she was fascinated. Becoming bored with her ‘girly’ activities such as dance and acrobatic classes, she told her mother that she, too, wanted to try the guitar. It was love at first touch. Her parents enrolled her in guitar instruction classes at the age of eight, and thus began her journey into the world of music. Terri and Chuck’s music instructor told their parents that these two young siblings had a natural ability with the guitar. Subsequently, the two youths began playing at various guitar recitals in Pueblo and throughout Colorado. In 1976, when her family moved to Temple, Texas, Terri neglected to find a new music instructor; however, she never strayed away from the guitar. She knew she wanted to play rock n’ roll, and after hearing Heart’s ‘Barracuda’ and learning that there was a woman in the band who played guitar, Terri was convinced this was her calling. She and her brother put together their first rock n' roll band, Krystal Axe, in 1979, playing cover tunes by Rush, Queen, Ted Nugent, Kiss and the like. During her first two years of college at Texas State University, Terri's guitar took a bit of a back seat. The fun and freedom of dorm life detoured her from serious practicing. After her second year of pursuing a higher education, she decided against returning to a major university. Taking a few classes at Temple Junior College back home in Texas, she joined the school music group, Shadowfax. It was a Top 40 cover band that mostly played around town, but in March of 1985, the band would experience stardom. With the help of Friendship Ambassadors Foundation,* Shadowfax traveled to Romania and Austria. It was Terri's taste of the glorious ‘15 minutes of fame’ of which Andy Warhol spoke. To the Romanian teenagers living in a communist society, Shadowfax was America. They were, in the eyes of the young Romanians, the rock stars a teenager always dreamed of seeing. After two weeks of playing to full houses, signing autographs and being followed from town to town by their new fans, it was back to reality in the USA. ‘Fame’ had come and went quickly, and the next fall Terri returned to Southwest Texas to obtain her degree in journalism. Once again, music became a second priority.After moving to Los Angeles in 1988, Terri quickly discovered the harsh realities of a big city and the music business. She came to LA for a magazine writing job, which kept her so busy, she found herself once again in a position of not having enough time to devote to her music. The job did not work out, and her stint as a paid music journalist was short lived. Not wanting to return to Texas, she took a 9-5 job in order to pay the rent. She continued to do freelance music journalism, but the desire to be in a band and play could not be repressed. "Every time I went to a club to review a band, I got bummed. I didn't want to be writing about these guys playing live; I wanted to be the one on the stage!" In 1990 she joined her first LA rock n' roll band, Life & Times, as a rhythm guitarist/back-up vocalist. Being young and idealistic, she was sure Life & Times would make it big. Much to her disappointment, the band fizzled and flopped. She joined two other bands (Big Money and The Merkins), again as rhythm guitarist/back-up vocalist, during the course of the next three years. Playing someone else's songs soon lost its appeal, and Terri longed to have her own project. She spent the next several years writing new songs and practicing her guitar for hours almost every day after work. "I was really burned out on being in a band and dealing with all the attitudes and other b.s. After I quit my last band, I went through a very transitional period where I became an evening recluse, spending all my time after work at home with my guit