Talk:The Jitters

The_Jitters page is inaccurate

This page is inaccurate.

The original band The Jitters was a proto-punk Seattle New Wave band formed in the late 1970's by P.K. Dwyer, Donna Beck, Pete Pendras, Dave Hutchison and Rick Tassin. The band recorded their seminal LP, "The Jitters," subtitled, "After All, It IS 1980!," in October 1979 at Bear Creek Studios. The album was released in early 1980, and released in 1999 on CD.

The band has a page on http://pnwbands.com/jitters.html, which features a graphic of their CD. P.K. Dwyer is still touring and performing, appearing as I write this (May 27, 2011) at the 40th Annual Seattle Folklife Festival.

In addition, there are at least two other contemporary bands using the name "The Jitters." One is "Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters," http://thejeffreylewissite.com/, and a three-piece garage rock band from Massachusetts, http://www.thejittersma.com/.

I suggest the following to avoid confusion: The Wiki page "The Jitters" be reserved for the original band from Seattle, which pre-dates all others who've used the name. I suggest the current page be re-titled "The Jitters_Canada," and a link be included at the top of the Seattle "The Jitters" page referring people to the Canadian band. And finally, a series of links to any other bands known to be calling themselves "The Jitters" on all "The Jitters" pages, effectively cross-referencing all the bands.

BigshirtXL (talk) 14:50, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

The two questions here are, firstly, how many bands are there called 'The Jitters' that merit encyclopedia articles, and secondly, which one (if any) are people most likely to be looking for when they type in 'The Jitters' (it doesn't matter which one came first)? If the Seattle band is notable (or for that matter the MA one), please feel free to create an article on it - to be honest they don't look like they would merit articles. If not, and there's only one that meets our notability criteria, then this article is at its correct location. When we have more than one article for bands with the same name, we can then look at how the articles should best be named.--Michig (talk) 19:01, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

The Seattle one is at least borderline notable (I came here looking for it). Its lead vocalist PK Dwyer has his own article here. - Jmabel | Talk 03:14, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps, but a band who came to national acclaim is more relevant Andy Johnston (talk) 14:53, 18 August 2017 (UTC)