The Dickies
The Dickies | |
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pop punk, comedy punk | |
Years active | 1977–present |
Labels | A&M, Captain Oi, Triple X, Enigma Records, Fat Wreck Chords, Cleopatra Records, Restless Brand, ROIR |
Members | Leonard Graves Phillips Stan Lee Ben David Seelig Adam Gomez Eddie Tatar |
Past members | Chuck Wagon Billy Club Karlos Kaballero Steve Hufsteter Glen Laughlin Enoch Hain Cliff Martinez Jonathan Melvoin Greg Hanna Dylan Thomas Lorenzo Buhne Jerry Angel Steven Fryette Scott Sindon Nickey Beat Rex Roberts Dave Teague Rick Dasher Travis Johnson Charlie Alexander Michael "Olga" Algar Anthony "Tiny" Biuso |
Website | thedickies |
The Dickies are an American punk rock band formed in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, in 1977. One of the longest tenured punk rock bands, they have been in continuous existence for over 40 years. They have consistently balanced catchy melodies, harmony vocals,[1][2] and pop song structures, with a speedy punk guitar attack. This musical approach is paired with a humorous style and has been labelled "pop-punk" or "bubble-gum punk".[3][4] The band have sometimes been referred to as "the clown princes of punk".[5][6][7][8][9]
History
Formation and early years (1977–1979)
Eventual Dickies vocalist Leonard Graves Phillips was a self-described celibate, "introverted character" in the period following high school. He played keyboards in his bedroom and, together with friend Bob Davis (later
As a teenager, Stan Lee was a drug buddy of
The book Going Underground: American Punk Rock 1979–1989 describes the Dickies in the context of the early L.A. punk scene. Its author contends that the Dickies were "the best musicians on the scene and made good use of their talents". Also described is an early gig at
The band's A&M record deal came about after that label sacked the Sex Pistols, one of two labels to do so in what manager Malcolm McLaren would later describe as "the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle", wherein that band would behave poorly and get booted off a label while keeping the signing money.[19][10] The label wanted a replacement punk band that was more manageable (or at least less notorious),[14] and sent a representative to see the Dickies on the set of C.P.O. Sharkey. This was followed up by a showcase at the Whisky and some assertive bluster by Stan Lee, which, along with the enthusiastic efforts of true-believing manager John Hewlett[20] (who also managed Sparks), led to the Dickies landing the record deal. The two albums the band recorded for the label, The Incredible Shrinking Dickies (1979) and Dawn of the Dickies (1979) are influential, well-regarded early punk records,[21][22] and were modestly successful commercially (the former peaked at #18 on the UK album charts[23]).
The Dickies had a string of successful singles in the UK, twice making the top 40. They had a
Their career off to a fast start, the Dickies would tour Europe five times between 1978 and 1980, pausing to play Top of the Pops on May 3, 1979.[24][25]
Post A&M (1980–1989)
Wagon's death, and drug issues among surviving members, slowed down the Dickies initial momentum considerably starting the 1980s, with John Hewlett being fired as manager and the A&M contract expiring during this period.[20] However, Phillips and Lee have kept the band playing and recording, at times sporadically, at other times more actively, until the present day, achieving venerable, "pop punk godfather" status along the way.[30]
During lulls between activity, the band would occasionally play locally around L.A. to earn a paycheck. But steadier work would come, supported by concerts on both US coasts (and occasionally in between), the UK, and elsewhere. In addition to work on several motion pictures, the band recorded albums for
After having had their first two albums released within a nine-month span, there was a nearly four-year gap to the release of Stukas Over Disneyland (1983). The influential punk zine Maximum Rocknroll published an enthusiastic review of this album. Writer Steve Spinali asserted that "The Dickies' first vinyl in almost four years ranks up there near their previous funnypunk triumphs. Most of the eight songs here veer toward amphetamine pop, with irresistible layered choruses to boot.... buoyant and entertaining as hell!"[31]
On March 5, 1985, the Dickies were one of a number of California punk bands to play a benefit show for the Cypress College Republicans. Other bands on the bill included the Circle Jerks, the Vandals, and D.I. Lee and Keith Morris from the Circle Jerks both stated that they were doing it out of fondness for the other bands on the bill, and because it was a paying gig (despite being a benefit). Both denied having political motivations for doing the show, and in fact wished for their respective bands to not be associated with politics. As to the show's organizers, one stated that there was a motivation to show their fellow college Republicans that punk was nothing to be afraid of, and to encourage them to have fun, since after all “(the college is in) Orange County, a predominantly conservative area, and a lot of punks come from conservative families...(and) a lot of them think Orange County is good."[32]
Live footage of the Dickies in concert was aired on
In 1986, cassette-only label
Among the bands that the Dickies shared bills with between 1985 and 1987 are
In 1988, the Dickies wrote and performed the theme song for the cult classic [42] horror film "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", which also became the title track for a Dickies EP released that year. It was produced by Ron Hitchcock, and was the debut of drummer Cliff Martinez who had recently played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weirdos, and Captain Beefheart. Martinez played with The Dickies from 1988 to 1994, and on the Second Coming, Locked N' Loaded Live in London, and Idjit Savant albums.[10]
Also in 1988, The Dickies appeared in the comedic motion picture 18 Again!, starring George Burns.[43] In the movie, Burns' 81-year-old character switches consciousnesses/souls with his 18-year-old grandson. In one scene, the octogenarian-turned-teenager accompanies a teenaged girl to a punk club, where the Dickies perform "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)". The whole song is performed, at times in the foreground, at times in the background. Closeups of Phillips wearing an ape mask (as is his penchant during live performances of the song), and Tarzan-like rope swinging by the singer, are featured.[44]
A gap of five years between their third and fourth studio albums elapsed (notwithstanding the Killer Klowns EP). A writer at the
The close of the decade saw the third Dickies-involved motion picture. In the opening minutes of the 1989 skateboard drama Gleaming the Cube, starring Christian Slater, Slater's character Brian is seen flying in a small airplane over Disneyland, along with four friends and the pilot, when the five skaters sing a line from the chorus of "Stukas over Disneyland". The song, which the characters would later listen to in a bedroom, is also featured on the soundtrack.[45]
During the pop punk revival (1990–1999)
The Dickies toured Europe in 1990 for the first time in a decade. Upon their arrival on the continent, meeting fans provided evidence to band members of their enduring popularity despite their ten year absence.[24] They have returned regularly since then, including participation in multi-band punk rock festivals.
In 1990, the Dickies wrote another theme song for a motion picture. This time it was for Lucas Reiner's time travel comedy film
1991 saw the release of another live Dickies album, this one entitled Live In London - Locked 'N' Loaded, put out by German label Rebel Rec. It was recorded at the Dome in London on October 11, 1990.[48]
On June 4, 1993, the Dickies headlined a one-day festival called the Milwaukee Mega Jam. Other acts on the bill included Green Day (a half year before the release of their breakthrough Dookie album), Agent Orange, and the Didjits.[49][50] Also in 1993, the band released a 3 song EP entitled Road Kill on Triple X Records.[51]
In addition to whatever personal issues the Dickies had to cope with in the middle part of their career, there was also the commercial challenge of the decline of the original punk scene, replaced by
One outgrowth of the revived attention given the Dickies, and attempts by interviewers to connect them to the current scene, was a minor feud with
By the time of Idjit Savant (1994), the Dickies had released their third consecutive album which followed a prolonged recording hiatus, at least with respect to studio
The holiday compilation Punk Rock Xmas (1995) by Rhino Entertainment includes the Dickies version of "Silent Night". Other artists on the collection include Ramones, The Damned, Fear, and Stiff Little Fingers.[56] A compilation that the Dickies were "conspicuously"[57] absent from, however, was Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits (1996). This compilation featured alternative and punk bands covering songs from cartoons. Entertainment Weekly labeled the Dickies "the kings of the genre", and noted they had already covered three of the album's songs; a fourth, "Spider-Man", the theme song for a comic character which is a frequent visual motif of Stan Lee's guitars and stage apparel,[58][59] went to a band the Dickies shared many concert bills with- the Ramones.[60]
A reviewer for a November 1998 Dickies concert in
The Dickies closed out the decade by recording an all-
Turn of the century (2000–2009)
Stan Lee negotiated the band's Fat Wreck Chords deal by fibbing to label owner Fat Mike, a Dickies fan who had, in 1996, obtained a 4 song demo the Dickies had recorded. Neither Lee nor Leonard Phillips had heard of the label head/NOFX front man, but were filled in by a member of the Dickies camp. Lee claimed that he had "an album's worth of material" ready to record, when in fact the band actually only had the 4 songs. Following this claim, a deal was agreed upon, but the L.P. was delayed by the amount of time it took to come up with and record an appropriate amount of material.[65] The resulting record found a prominent fan in Milo Aukerman. The scientist/Descendents front man has stated that All This and Puppet Stew gave him encouragement to continue playing into advancing middle age. "I was just extremely impressed with how they put out a great record [at that age]. It definitely set the kernel in my mind that you could be in your late 40s and still put out a record that full-on brought the punk rock from start to finish."[66]
Spectrum Records released the 18 song compilation The Dickies – The Punk Singles Collection in 2002.[67]
In the Summer of 2003 the Dickies were part of a package tour of classic punk bands. Called "Fiend Fest", it was headlined by
The Dickies played the 2004 Ramones 30th Anniversary tribute concert in Los Angeles, which was filmed. The Dickies are also in the 2006 documentary Too Tough to Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone, along with X, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joan Jett, Rob Zombie, and others. The film features footage from the 2004 concert, which was held in particular to honor the then seriously-ill Ramones guitarist. The Dickies perform "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)" and the Ramones song "Today Your Love (Tomorrow the World)", and in interview footage, they talk about their shared history with the New York band.[70][71] Another video release from this period is entitled The Dickies: An Evening With the Dickies (2005, Secret Films).[72]
The Dickies played the 2007 Warped Tour, a North American punk rock festival, for the first time in what would be four consecutive years, and five years total.
Leonard Phillips provided guest vocals on the Vibrators' cover of "vibrator" by Motörhead, on the former band's Pure Punk album (2009).[73]
The decade closed on two sour notes, as a pair of former Dickies died in the year 2009. Enoch Hain (born Robert Frederick Orin Lansing, Jr.), Dickies guitarist for a period stretching from the late 1980s into the mid 1990s,[74] died on July 25, 2009, from complications arising from pneumonia.[75] And original drummer Karlos Kabellero (born Carlos Cabellero), who gave the band its name and was one of its songwriters during his tenure, died on September 22, 2009, from heart-related problems.[76]
Present day (2010–present)
In 2010, The Dickies hit cover of "Banana Splits" provides the soundtrack to a violent action scene in the superhero movie Kick Ass.[77]
The new decade found the Dickies on the road. Reviewing an August 2011 headlining concert in
The Dickies live dates in 2013 included Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare fest in Los Angeles,[80] and supporting the Damned in Birmingham, England. Regarding the latter, an impressed reviewer suggested that the Dickies were "the perfect support act for the Damned", and praised the band for "having the balls" to play their "crunching take" on Black Sabbath's "paranoid" in that band's hometown.[81] Other tour dates that year included concerts in the US northeast.[82] The band continued to tour consistently through 2014 and 2015, including dates throughout North America, one of which was the 2015 Gwar B-Q,[6] and also shows in Australia.[83][13]
2017 was the band's 40th anniversary, which they celebrated by touring, including 16 dates in England and
Another leg of the band's 40th anniversary tour included a run of dates on the 2017
In May 2018, the Dickies, along with the
The Dickies released a single in 2019, their first studio recording in over a decade. A cover of Cheap Trick's "I Dig Go Go Girls", it features a contribution from Monkey from the Adicts. The B-side is called "the Dreaded Pigasaurus", which is a reference to a creature that functions as garbage disposal in The Flintstones.[100][101]
Recent live dates include Punk Rock Bowling in May 2019,
In an interview with Goldmine, Leonard Phillips stated that the band will record a "final" album.[106] In the same interview, another purported project on the way is discussed: an autobiographical book of humorous short stories by Phillips.[106]
Musical style and themes
Some artists eschew the term "
During the band's formative period, they viewed the already existing punk bands as being divided into two camps: serious political bands (such as the
Many of the Dickies lyrics concern Southern California culture, rife with references and in-jokes; examples include songs like "Waterslide", "I'm A Chollo", "Manny, Moe, and Jack", Stukas Over Disneyland, and "(I'm Stuck in a Pagoda with) Tricia Toyota". Another theme is classic cartoons/children's TV, with songs like "Banana Splits (tra la la song)", "Gigantor", "Eep Opp Ork (Uh Uh)" (from the Jetsons), "Bowling with Bedrock Barney", and most recently, another Flintstones reference with "The Dreaded Pigasaurus". Phillips has said that these choices add up to a social commentary. He saw some of his peers in LA punk coming from privileged backgrounds, but projecting UK working class-style angst. "We wanted to show all those bourgeois ‘punks’ what it really MEANT to come from the valley."[111]
The Dickies are also known for
Phillips has said that he feels the Dickies many covers are different in character from those by latter-day punk cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (who have paid homage to the Dickies by playing a snippet of "You Drive Me Ape" in their cover of the Beatles' "All My Loving"). Phillips feels that band employs a formula, whereas the Dickies reinterpret songs that are meaningful to them.[108]
Something else that the Dickies are known for is Phillips' routines when playing live, including wearing an ape mask or scuba gear, and using props ranging from a dog puppet, to a talking penis puppet ("Stewart"), to an inflatable female "
In the book Punk Rock: So What? The Cultural Legacy of Punk, edited by Roger Sabin, a writer states that the Dickies follow in a tonal/thematic tradition started by immediate predecessors
Influence
In a feature about the
Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion and Epitaph Records has stated that members of his band "grew up with" the Dickies, and considers the band "one of the greatest punk bands", as good as the Buzzcocks. He praises the Dickies songs more than their humor.[24]
Green Day and the Offspring have cited Dickies influence.[52] While the former band would later give mixed messages about their feelings about the Dickies, Noodles, guitarist for the Offspring, said that the Dickies are "one of my favorites", in a Rolling Stone interview.[24]
Ben Weasel of Screeching Weasel included the Dickies in a short list of punk bands that "were sort of pioneers, both musically and in what they did to lay the groundwork for bands like mine."[121]
The Groovie Ghoulies, themselves named after the cartoon Groovie Goolies, were influenced by the "cartoon-punk" aspect of the Dickies.[123]
In a profile of
Fat Mike of NOFX, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and Fat Wreck Chords, and Milo Aukerman of Descendents, both cite the Dickies as an influence.[126][66]
In the cult film High Fidelity the lead figure Rob Gordon (played by John Cusack) wears a T-shirt clearly emblazoned "The Dickies" in his record store.
Discography
Studio albums
- The Incredible Shrinking Dickies (1979)
- Dawn of the Dickies (1979)
- Stukas Over Disneyland (1983)
- Second Coming (1989)
- Idjit Savant (1995)
- Dogs from the Hare That Bit Us (1998)
- All This and Puppet Stew (2001)
EPs
- Killer Klowns From Outer Space(1988)
- Roadkill (1993)
Live albums
- Locked 'N' Loaded 1990 (1991)
- Locked 'N' Loaded Live in London (1991)
- Still Got Live Even If You Don't Want It (1999)
- Live In London (2002)
- Dickies Go Bananas (2008)
- Live Destruction (2008)
- 1977: A Night That Will Live in Infamy (2014)
- Live When They Were Five: City Gardens 1982 (2014)
- Banana Splits (2016)
- Best of Live (2019)
- Live In Winnipeg (2019)
Compilation albums
- We Aren't the World (1986)
- Great Dictations (1989)
- Show & Tell: A Stormy Remembrance of TV Theme Songs (1997)
- Punk Singles Collection (1982)
- Balderdash: From The Archive (2023)
Compilation appearances
- We're Desperate: The L.A. Scene 1976-79 (Rhino) (1993) - "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Goilla)"
Singles
- "UKNo. 45
- "Eve of Destruction" (1978)
- "Give It Back" (1978)
- "Silent Night" (1978) - UK No. 47
- "Banana Splits (Tra La La Song)" (1979) - UK No. 7
- "Nights in White Satin" (1979) - UK No. 39
- "Manny, Moe And Jack" (1979)
- "Fan Mail" (1980) - UK No. 57
- "Gigantor" (1980) - UK No. 72
- "Dummy Up" (1989)
- "Just Say Yes" (1990)
- "Make It So" (1994)
- "Pretty Ballerina" (1995)
- "My Pop the Cop" (1998)
- "Free Willy" (2001)[128]
- "I Dig Go-Go Girls" (2019)
- "A Gary Glitter Getaway" (2022)
- "Blink 183" (2022)
Videos
Music videos
- "Paranoid" (1978)
- "Banana Splits (Tra La La Song)" (1979)
- "Nights in White Satin" (1979)
- "Killer Klowns" (1988)
- "Donut Man" (2001)
Commercial releases
- Dickies Over Stukaland (1991) - Compilation of various Dickies' performances in Europe in 1990.
- The Best of Flipside #6 (1997) - Material originally recorded in 1985 in Los Angeles.
- Rocked 'N' Roaded (2000) - Compilation of various Dickies' performances in Japan in 2000.
- Peepshow (2002)
- World Shut Your Mouth (2003)
- An Evening with the Dickies (2004) - Dickies' show at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms, July 16, 2002.
See also
- List of punk bands: 0–K, L–Z
- List of bands from Los Angeles
- Music of California
- Timeline of punk rock
- Punk rock in California
- The Quick (US band)
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