The current configuration for Dyslexic Love is just me, Tim Bertulli, acappella. As with my Solo acoustic work ( Tim Bertulli ) I found it much easier to simply record all of the musical pieces myself. Yes it does save money, but more importantly, it allows me to get right to the point of the song, and record what's in my head. No outside distractions. That makes a huge difference.

Where did it all start? I guess for me it was the Beatles. Everything in the late 60's and early 70's was directly or indirectly related to them. If they weren't dominating the airwaves with another hit, they were in the papers for their break-up, or yet another act targetted JPG & R as their inspiration.

I was pretty young in 1970 ( 6'ish ) but I was raised by a musical mother, and my older brother and sister were hitting adolescence ( one of them a little harder than the other ), and they were pretty hip with the current scene. The radio was always on, or one of them was spinning another new album.

I grew up in Southern Ontario in Canada. My home town is Port Colborne, which is about 20 minutes drive from Buffalo, NY, and about a 1.5 hour drive from Toronto. In this area there were umpteen different rock stations. Buffalo alone had 5 or 6 rock stations. It was awesome. Not to mention all the other types of music stations, AM or FM. People nowadays sometimes ask me how the heck I know so many old rock songs and I try to explain this scenario. It was pretty easy to absorb all of this.

The early/mid 70's saw the merger of AM Pop, and FM Stereo Radio. The format shifted from singles to album rock. So the Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, BTO, and Alice Cooper albums that my brother was spinning downstairs were now regular songs on the radio as well ( Yes you young kiddies, there was a time when this music was NEW ). The Donny Osmond's, Leif Garret's, Shaun Cassidy's, and Tony Defranco's ( who was from my home town of Port Colborne by the way ) were now all on their own in AM Land, while the now-termed "classic" rockers were dominating the FM airwaves. I pretty much lived on this for the entire decade.

As the mid-70’s dawned and I entered adolescence, I spent what few bucks I earned from my paper route on Peter Frampton, KISS, BTO, and Ted Nugent albums ( among others ), and really freaked out on the guitar rock scene. Of course my older brother had the coolest album collection ever, and I took every opportunity I could to sneak into his room and listen to them. My first album that I bought was Peter Frampton’s "Frampton’s Camel". I still own it and listen to it occasionally. The point being: the rhythm and lead guitar attack backed with a drummer and bassist was what I was in to.

I think it is important to keep in mind that this was the Audio Age, NOT the Video Age. You rarely saw these guys on TV at all ( OK forget that KISS meets the Phantom flick, and the Sgt. Pepper debacle Peter ). You had to go see them live to get a real taste ( Oh ya, occasionally Crazy Ted would appear at some god-awful hour on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert wearing nothing but a loin cloth and swinging from a vine looking like Tarzan on a Sunday Afternoon, but I had to sneak up that late to see it, if I was awake at all ). It was that or you had to slap on a set of headphones and drift away. It was pretty cool stuff because you rarely saw it and you had no choice but to let the music grab you, or you didn’t listen to it. You were forced to listen to the music and then make a decision. There was not the distraction of a video stream clouding your senses simultaneously.

That's my "musical roots" if you will. What followed in the next 2 decades was merely filler for what had already been engrained in the back of my mind.

Musically the 80’s brought on the advent of the Hair Bands that basically tried to duplicate what the 70’s guys did, but they relied heavily on video to portrait their image. They weren’t doing anything new. Most of it was drab, old, and boring ( I still maintain KISS was over in 1979 - Sorry Gene ). The Def's, Motley's, Jovi's, etc, were just re-doing the pop rock scene from the 70's with the help of video. Sure there were the Maiden's out there spawning a "harder" scene with 2 guitar attacks, but they certainly didn't invent it. Ever listen to an Allman Brothers song?

The 90’s brought to light the phrases “Grunge” and “Alternative”. Grunge Rock is a 70’s rock band with no lead guitarist; And Alternative is such a convoluted term that the "powers-that-be" should really pull out a dictionary and review what it really refers to. Right now it is what I do because I’ve been force-fed so much of this “new” rock that my genre is a rare alternative.

I mention all of this because it is the impetus for what Dylexic Love is all about. It's unadultered, unedited, straight ahead Rock'n Roll 70's style. If you’re looking for the video collection ( well maybe one day ) then you’re in the wrong place. Yes it's recorded ( as opposed to live ), but most tracks were done live, in their entirety, just like it used to be done. Since it’s all me, there has to be overdubbing ( since I amputated my other 6 appendages - but that's another story for another web site ). Overdubbing is a lot different than a lot of the electronica assembly and digital sound manufacturing that’s going on today. And there wasn't anyone in my face telling me how this bridge doesn't go before/after that Lead, that solo should be Phrygian instead of Mixolydian, or you can’t use the ride in the verse. It’s just direct from my thought process to the disk. That makes a huge difference for me when recording. No distractions. Just grip it and rip it I say.

Dyslexic Love was born out of my basement while I was recording my solo CD’s. I had all of this Rock music that I happened to be playing live with a buddy, and I realized that some of it wasn’t all that bad. At least it wasn’t any worse than what I was hearing on the radio. So I decided to start arranging and recording some tunes. The result was the first release Dyslexic Love..