Domenic Desio Mariani (born 27 July 1958) is an Australian guitarist, vocalist, producer, and songwriter. Mariani has been a member of several bands since the early 1980s, including The Stems, The Someloves, DM3, Datura4, and instrumental outfits The Majestic Kelp. The Stems is the best-known and most successful of Mariani's projects. Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described the power pop group as "one of the best live bands on the Australian scene". In 2005 Mariani was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Awards Hall of Fame. In August of that year he curated a double-CD compilation album, Popsided Guitar: Anthology 1984–2004, which included material from several of his bands. In 2007 United States writer John M. Borack rated Mariani as "one of the top five pop titans of the past couple of decades". Biography Mariani was born in 1958 and grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. Mariani is the son of Italian migrants from Abruzzo, his father, Giovanni Mariani (born 29 March 1927 in Fresagrandinaria) was a farm and factory hand who arrived in Fremantle in September 1951; his grandfather Domenico Mariani (24 August 1901 – 9 March 1971) arrived in 1955. His mother, Giovanna Mariani (born 1 June 1937 in Scerni), arrived in May 1957. Mariani has a brother Lorenzo (known as Laurie) and a sister Maria.[A] He received his first guitar at age nine. He took lessons with Wally Harland at the Fremantle Guitar Studio in his early teens. Mariani's earliest bands during his high school years were The Nit Wits and Impact. . Harland also ran a cabaret, where Mariani performed with "a couple of the other guys ... We linked up with Robbie Scorer and we were playing everything from 'Pride Of Erran' to 'Good Golly Miss Molly'". Impact performed instrumental cover versions of Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beatles and Bee Gees material. In November 2003 Mariani remembered "CCR's 'Down on the Corner' at my very first gig. I knew it note for note but then when I went to play it, nerves kicked in... And I didn't play 'Down on the Corner' that's for sure!!" His other early influences were The Raspberries, Badfinger and Big Star. After high school, Mariani attended college. The Go-Starts (1981–1983) In 1981 Mariani formed The Go-Starts with Guido Berini on guitar and vocals, and Velo Zupanovich on bass guitar. During 1982 Greg Hitchcock replaced Berini on guitar while Robbie Scorer