The Dickies
The Dickies resemble their Los Angeles punk contemporaries Fear in many respects. Like Fear, The Dickies formed in the San Fernando Valley and were already a group of skilled adult musicians by the time of the 1977 punk craze. Though Fear’s act was more aggressive than The Dickies’, both bands adopted broad, cartoonish images and primarily related to their audiences through humor. The Dickies played a manic version of 1960’s AM radio pop with some heavy 1970’s rock guitar accents, blaring out a series of frenetic, sped-up, affectionate and often hilarious covers such as Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sounds of Silence,” Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction,” the... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Punk
- City Of Origin:
- Los Angeles, ,California United States
- Formed Date:
- 1977
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