Big Dipper
Big Dipper
Latest Release
- If you'd stay (demos and recorded ideas)
- October 2025
- • 1 Song
Top Songs
| 1 | If you'd stay (demos and recorded ideas) | ||
| 2 | Extraordinary Worm | ||
| 3 | Nowhere to Put My Love | ||
| 4 | Winsor Dam | ||
| 5 | The Ghost of Emily |
Albums
Aug 2025 • 1 song
Apr 2025 • 1 song
Mar 2008 • 49 songs
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About
Biography
A great band that never quite fulfilled their enormous potential, Boston's Big Dipper had impeccable indie credentials and an excellent line in crunchy post-post-punk guitar pop, but their later albums were no match for their early work.
Big Dipper was formed in 1985 when guitarist Gary Waleik and bassist Steve Michener left the original lineup of Volcano Suns, which they'd formed with drummer and vocalist Peter Prescott after the breakup of Prescott's earlier band Mission of Burma. Both uncomfortable with the idea of taking lead vocal chores, Waleik and Michener recruited si...