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From: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: DICKIES!
Message-ID: <2419@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 13:50:17 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 19 13:50:17 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Oct-85 04:03:06 EDT
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Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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In article <90300007@haddock.UUCP> chrisb@haddock.UUCP writes:
>
>       I got the chance to see a wonderful band last night called the Dickies.
>They are perhaps most well-known for their hyper-speed version of "Knights
>in White Satin". The music is very fast and loud, almost like hardcore (in
>fact there was quite a bit of slam-dancing up front by the usual assortment
>of punks and ghouls). But the melodic structures of the songs, as well as the
>front man's bizarre sense of humor (can't remember his name), give this band a
>really unique quality. His voice is that sort high-strung sound that Pete
>Shelley used to have with the Buzzcocks, or perhaps Jello Biafra's (though not
>as ugly).
>	The high-point of the show was during the song "If Stewart could Talk"
>which is about...you guessed it... the guy's THANG. He pulled out this hand
>puppet (actually more of an arm-puppet) shaped like the real animal with a
>face, and this thing gave a little monologue (I wish I could remember it).
>The song asks the question "What would he say, if Stewie could talk to me?"
>The answer at the end of the song: the band broke into that Who song
>"See me, Feel me, Touch me, Heal me...(or however it goes) with the puppet
>mouthing the words. Too much!
>	Does anyone know anything about this band, like where they are from?
>I know they have been around for awhile.
>						Til we drink again - Zak

I believe the Dickies have been around since about 1978 and they originate
in California. They have three albums out (to my knowledge):

1) The Incredible Shrinking Dickies (has a great version of Black Sabbath's
                                                            "Paranoid")
2) Dawn of The Dickies (with Nights in White Satin)

and a third album that has an amusing version of Zep's Communication Breakdown
(The name of this album escapes me)

-- 


Another wunnerful letter from the semi-intelligent rotting brain of:

                              Paul Kirsch
                              St. Joseph's University
                              Philadelphia, Pa

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