Dils Dils Dils!

[Dr_Phibes]

It's easy to forget how completely brilliant they were, how great this album is and it's still so hard to find.



Do yourself a favour and give it a listen:

http://www.we7.com/#/album/Dils-Dils-Di ... mId=390533

Track nine, 'what goes on' has to one the best punk jams ever. Wonder what the actual vinyl cost?

[War Wagon]

one the best punk jams ever.

Lost me right there. I've yet to hear any punk rock music I liked, unless you consider The Ramones or The Clash as "punk"... and they're just barely tolerably.

Back inna' day, I guess The Cars might have been considered punk rock. I had certainly heard nothing like that until they came along... nothing that I liked, anyway. I like The Cars.

And yeah, Phibes. I tried listening to that. Sorry, not my cup.

[War Wagon]

Rules, btw.

This blew me away the first time I heard it.

[Dr_Phibes]

I tried listening to that. Sorry, not my cup.

I guess

The Dils were a cut above, they could go toe to toe with early Damned and win I reckon, 'What goes on' puts 'No Fun' by the Pistols to shame.
And poking around, listening to other bands out of that scene that I've never heard of, ie: The Avengers just left me dry - but easy to forget it was cutting edge then, so much has gone on since.

Funny you mentioned The Clash, funny story. Musicians Union was harassing Dils, trying to press gang them into joining so their manager (communist party member RACKETH) signed them up to International Workers of the World, entertainment branch for 25$

They did a gig with Clash and Union took revenge

The Clash roundly ignored us throughout, apart from their junkie drummer, who sneered at my attempts to tune my tom toms off-mike. We got no soundcheck. We were told at 7:40 to go on at 8:00, not 8:45. We drank our complimentary room temp 7Up & went on. Hey! Chip was beet-red & about to collapse after 4 songs. The union sound men were all doing their jobs, after a fashion. They sabotaged us creatively, testing all frequencies, etc., Dils in nightmare dub. The union, it seems. Hella voice, for a moment, gone. Huge bass, oops! Where’s, oh - THERE’s the drums- oops! Fans screaming “What the f#*’s goin’ on?! We can’t hear you !?“ Bo Diddley & his ''band'', went on next- perfect sound. Then the Smash finally appeared. Coked to the gills, slick, soul dead. Girl punks were dragged from stage edge & cursed at by security, “Fuck you ho, shutup”. I nearly got stomped rescuing Gerber from them. The Smash were pounding away, oblivious to the BS 15 feet away. Some things never change. I came out of that quite disillusioned.

Q: So you never dealt with them again?
I met Strummer, & Jones, a few other times. They tried to buy our songs after our breakup. They were rejected.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

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