----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@comcast.net>
> Hey, I think The Donnas are great.  If you really want to hear the
> progression this band has made, listen to 1998's "American Teenage
> Rock'n'Roll Machine" and then listen to 2002's Spend The Night or 
> this
> year's Gold Medal.  What amazes me is how much better a drummer 
> Torry
> Castellano is now.  Hey, I know they were merely kids and were
> self-taught...but man, did it ever show.  I guess the constant 
> touring
> really tightened up this band.

I always kinda liked the Donnas through TURN 21, but I think the last 
couple of albums are the equivalent of the Ramones' '80s albums: 
they're more polished, yeah, and the musicianship is tighter, true, 
but the songs are completely dull.  There must have been a happy 
medium between inspired amateurishness and dull professionalism...

S