Dino DiMuro

A small boy went to see what was one of the blockbuster films of that day, Bonnie and Clyde. He leaves the theatre totally entranced with the sound of Earl Scruggs' banjo, featured so prominently on the film's soundtrack. Immediately he begins scheming on how to get his own banjo and start playing like that. Ironically, Dino DiMuro would not become known as a banjo player, and he would not play any music remotely connected to the bluegrass style of Scruggs. He would instead become one of the key names in an underground musical movement of the '80s that involved a small but ded...