‘Dharmageddon,’ by Bergen County Mainstay Bamberdost, Lands With A Bang

Written By Mike Greenblatt
Bamberdost

Bamberdost, the East Rutherford trio comprised of 1980s veterans Paul Mauled, Chris Pingor and Jack Gibson, have followed up last year’s Songs About Your Girlfriend album with Dharmageddon, a loud, ballsy, almost anthemic album with “adult songs about complicated relationships,” as our friend Jim Testa writes in his “Constant Listener.” As Mauled says, “I was a dude playing love songs on acoustic guitar and then I recruited some other dudes to back me up.”

There’s something about older guys playing punk-rock with the lessons learned from a lifetime in the trenches that just rings true.

Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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