Mitchell Dancik started his career as the singer/songwriter/guitarist for Just Water, a mainstay of the NYC punk rock/new wave scene at CBGBs and Max's Kansas City. Just Water released several recordings throughout the 1970's, on Branded Records in the US and on Stiff Records in Europe. After Just Water disbanded in 1979, Mitchell Dancik worked with several other bands, and created Mitchell Dancik & The Senators in order to record his substantial backlog of songs. In the 1980's Dancik's s...
Mitchell Dancik started his career as the singer/songwriter/guitarist for Just Water, a mainstay of the NYC punk rock/new wave scene at CBGBs and Max's Kansas City. Just Water released several recordings throughout the 1970's, on Branded Records in the US and on Stiff Records in Europe. After Just Water disbanded in 1979, Mitchell Dancik worked with several other bands, and created Mitchell Dancik & The Senators in order to record his substantial backlog of songs. In the 1980's Dancik's song "Witness To The Crime" was part of the soundtrack for the Diane Lane movie "My New Gun".
The Senators started as a song in 1979, and then morphed over the years from real band, to virtual band, to disband, to marketing brand, and finally into the partly flesh & partly fantasy internet band-brand of today. Anyone who demands proof of their existence after more than 30 years of hide n' seek need only subscribe to their free "Song Of The Month Club" service on www.tomboftheunknownartist.com.
The birth of the Senators is documented by the song "The Senators" on the album "Holocausts In Your Sleep", which can be heard on www.tomboftheunknownartist.com. Various members, real and fictional, have come and gone over the years, with Ira Bernstein (the original lead singer of Just Water prior to Mitch taking that job) appearing on many Senators tracks since 2008. Mitch fills in whatever gaps exist in the band, which often leaves him alone in the studio performing and engineering all the tracks.
The first Senators albums were recorded in the late 1970’s at the small four-track studio "Dancik Plant", at 2072 Pearson Street in Brooklyn, New York, and mastered by long-time Just Water engineer Neal Steingart. During the 1980’s the Senators were homeless and recorded in various NYC studios and lofts. Most of the 1980’s studio time was provided by slipping in the back door after other sessions being run by producer David Bailes.
The 1990's were fallow years for the Senators, with their only output being a few children’s songs.
The 2000's are a Senator's renaissance, replete with new guitar strings, new songs, instruments repaired, and the unearthing of the new "Dancik Plant South" in Cary, North Carolina. Since 2007 the Senators have recorded more than 50 tracks. Their first official independent CD of the 21st century is Short Journeys. In 2010 Mitchell Dancik and Danny Rubin (ex-Just Water lead guitarist) started collaborating on new Just Water as well as Senators tracks. Many more indie CD and MP3 releases are planned.
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