In conjunction with their festival success, the Loosely Tight song "Rough and Tough" was the lead off track for radio station KDKB (93.3 FM)'s 1979 album, Arizona Sounds Volume 3.
After a brief stint with Capitol Records, the band's album Fightin' Society (1981) found release on Star Struck Records (Catalog number TDS 020559).
In 2000, The Arizona Republic named Loosely Tight as #28 in their list of The 100 Best Valley Rock Bands.[4]
Band members
The Loosely Tight lineup included Dino Livingston (singer/songwriter/vocalist/guitarist), Mark Lehman (bass), Jr. Lomeli (guitar), and Pat Dixon (drums). The band's manager was Danny Zelisko. Later band members included Bob Hagen (drums), Danny Livingston (bass), and Donnie Mills (bass). Dixon went on to play drums with another Arizona based band, Icon, who recorded albums on both Capitol Records and Atlantic Records, while Lehman moved on to the band Surgical Steel, most notable for recording a song with Rob Halford of Judas Priest.
In 2011, Loosely Tight moved to Houston, Texas where Dino Livingston teamed up with bass player Wolff DeLong (former bass player for, most notably, Mean Gene Kelton and Super Chikan and the Fighting Cocks), and drummer, Rick Gomez. Delong and Gomez provided the rhythm section. Livingston continued to write songs and play guitar.
On December 20, 2011, the band leader and lead singer, Dino (Dennis Wayne) Livingston, died of complications from diabetes.[6]
In 2012, Phoenix New Times chose Loosely Tight's song "Bombs Away" as one of the songs from 1981 which defined Arizona.[7]
References
^"Musical Groups Sought for 'Battle of the Bands'". Ukiah Daily Journal. March 7, 1979. p. 23.
^Hilburn, Robert (April 9, 1979). "Calirffornia Festival, Day 1: Cheap Trick Sparks Show". The Los Angeles Times. pp. 34 & 64.