At our rehearsal before our gig at the Knitting Factory in LA. September 2, 2010.

Hello, everyone. This is Robert Darlington in Baltimore, Maryland, reflecting on the thirty years that I've been a member of Translator.

The band started as a trio (Steve, Dave, and Larry) in 1979, and I became a huge fan. They asked me to play with them on "Dizzie Miss Lizzie" at a party, and the next thing I knew they were asking me to play "Cry For A Shadow" with them at their next gig. The song has two guitar parts and Steve was the only guitarist in the band.

(We recorded this great Beatles' instrumental with David Kahne in San Francisco, and 415/Columbia Records released it on our one vinyl EP. In 1995, The LA Times Calendar section wrote that the three [at that time] surviving Beatles had recorded a new version of "Cry For A Shadow" and that they were planning to release it on one of their upcoming anthology collections: it turned out that it was our recording of the song, much to our surprise. To have one of our recordings be mistaken for the Beatles was a great moment for all of us.)

I learned their entire set at one rehearal,
including "Cry For A Shadow." --Read more

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This website has a great book for sale by Catharine J. Anderson. "Eclypso" is a collection of photos taken at small San Francisco Bay Area clubs during the early eighties. Nine of the hundred or so photos are of Translator, so please check it out. I'm going to get my copy.

Welcome to Translator Music online! This site is a meeting place for fans, a bulletin board for news, a resource for press, and your best source for the band's music.

We will be starting a regular blog, podcasts, and other surprises -- 2010 looks like it will be a great year for Translator. We are in the process of getting some previously unreleased recordings released as soon as possible, so look for that to happen within a few months.

We are also planning to tour, so we could be hitting the road sometime this year. Check out live footage of us on YouTube at Slim's in San Francisco and the Knitting Factory in LA -- filmed last September -- if you would like to see contemporary footage of us playing live.

Also, check out the link to the Go For Change film at YouTube, featuring Translator songs "No Time Like Now" and "Point Of No Return." A film with a very important message.

Feel free to browse the photo archive, read the blog, subscribe to the podcast, and join the discussion in the forum. Translator is together today because of the amazing support we have received from people around the world. Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers,

Robert Darlington,Steve Barton,
Larry Dekker, and Dave Scheff