Download Dictators mp3

Artist: Dictators: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock: Punk-Rock     Discography:      The Dictators Go Girl Crazy    Year:     Tracks: 9 Formed in 1974, N.Y.C.'s Dictators were one of the finest and well-nigh influential proto-punk bands to walk the earth. Alternately reveling in and satirizing the wanton excesses of a rock-and-roll & roll life style and philistine culture (e.g., wrestling, TV, fast food), the Dictators, whose worldview was outlined by bassist/keyboardist and former fanzine publishing firm (Adolescent Wasteland Gazette) Andy (on affair Adny) Shernoff and rat terrier rock critic/theorist Richard Meltzer, played photoflash, quick rock candy & hustle fueled by a love of '60s American garage john Rock, British Invasion pop, and the sonic onset of the Who. Driven by the guitar bombardment of Scott "Top Ten" Kempner and Ross "the Boss" Funichello and fronted by indefatigable ex-roadie and wrestler Handsome Dick Manitoba (aka Richard Blum), it seemed that goose egg stood in the way of the Dictators and mega-popularity. But that's not what happened. There were complications with record companies, force changes (old bassist Mark Mendoza left field for Twisted Sister; original drummer Stu Boy King was replaced by Richie Teeter), radio detested them, critical response was tepid, and wads of audiences didn't come the jokes; supporters remained loyal and clamorous (specially Meltzer), but it didn't turn into anything real. Ironically, what didn't serve at all was the rise up of the New York hood scene, which only amused tending away from them and onto bands they influenced (e.g., the Ramones). They did wangle to release threesome fine albums, only after 1978's Bloodbrothers was greeted with populace apathy, the group's members began moving in different directions. Kempner arrange unitedly the Del-Lords and the Little Kings and recorded as a solo do work. Ross the Boss fatigued a few age in the goofy, macho weighed down metallic element ring Manowar and by and by united Shernoff and Manitoba in the punk/metal jazz band Manitoba's Wild Kingdom. And Shernoff worked as a producer. However, as Shernoff arrange it, "the Dictators never skint up. Sure thither were occasional gaps of a few geezerhood 'tween some shows (we had lives to lead) but deep in our black Maria and souls we always knew we were Dictators. We couldn't escape it regular when we time-tested." With this in head, the lap got together to play a fistful of shows in 1980, one of which was recorded for the cassette-only album Fuck 'Em If They Can't Take A Joke, which was later on reissued as New York, New York. The band hit the road once more in 1991, and began drift out on a semi-regular basis subsequently that. In 2001, the Dictators made their derelict retirement prescribed and recorded a new album, D.F.F.D., which graded with the band's finest work in the studio apartment. More touring followed, and a live record album recorded at two shows in support of D.F.F.D., Viva Dictators!, came out in 2005.