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From: reeves@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: DICKIES!
Message-ID: <7406@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 18:02:46 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 18:02:46 1985
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Reply-To: reeves@ucla-cs.UUCP (John Reeves)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

Just to set the record straight....

The Dickies are from the San Fernando Valley/North Hollywood and
formed in 1976.  Many of their early gigs were performed with
Leonard Graves in a wheelchair after he broke both legs jumping
from the balcony to the stage at the Starwood.

The records are: the white maxie single, Incredible Shrinking
Dickies, Dawn of the Dickies (both on A&M), and Stukas over
Disneyland.  _Golden Shower of Hits_ is a Circle Jerks LP.

They got on the charts in the UK with the singles 'Banana Splits'
and 'Gigantor' (yes, the cartoon themes) which have, to my
knowledge, never made it to an lp.

 Steve Huffsteter was only in the band for a short period of time.
He now plays in the Cruzados (nee Plugz) who have just released
a record (whose name escapes me).  Historians can also find him
on the Quick's one lp.  He and Tito Latvira (sp?) from the Cruzados
were resposible for the RepoMan soundtrack.

Chuck Wagon commited suicide.

The Dickies are continually slagged off in the LA music press for
continuing to do the same set for over five years now (same jokes,
same patter, same props) and would seem to have become the first
dinosaur punk/pop band.  However, if you haven't seen 'em, they
always deliver.

They will be playing in late November in Plancetia (another fine
suburb of LA) with 7 Seconds, Uniform Choice and Doggie Style.

  John Reeves
  Computer Science Department  UUCP: ...!{ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!reeves
  A.I. Lab, 3531 Boelter Hall  ARPA: reeves@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU