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A Message to you Rudy-The Specials




The Dickies-Paranoid









I would have liked to post "Give it Back" by The Dickie's, but alas it is not on YouTube.
Keely and I played the "No Wave" compilation album (on blue vinyl?) nearly to death for the love of that song.
We all shared our punk rock and new wave albums amongst ourselves:
The Dead Kennedys, The Circle Jerks, later The Young Marble Giants.

We tried to see every show there was at The Showbox:
Devo, Ultravox, The (ubiquitous) Dead Kennedys, The UK Squeeze, The Germs.
It was 1979 and 1980...Derek was born. He was the first punk rock baby in Kitsap County to be sure.



http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=x2epq9eHW_E

The Dickies- Eve of Destruction

I saw video for the first time at the Devo show in the summer of '80. "Girl You Want." Sort of like this:



The music finally started to speak to and for us.
It thrust our spirits and minds out through the tops of our heads...we felt IT.
It was political, sexual, industrial tech, smart smart smart. A clean break from the mire of the decade.



The Dead Kennedys- California Uber Alles

I'd stay up late Sunday nights to hear an hour or two of ska, punk rock and new wave on KRAB radio.
(Listener powered radio we really did lose! Support KBOO if you can!)
Later we listened to "1540 AM, modern music for modern people, rock of the 80's, KZAM."
We read City Kids and Creem, soon we'd read Maximum Rock N Roll and the Rocket.
I don't remember the specific years, just the general action.



I loved Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, The UK Squeeze.
Everyone had a copy of Marty Thau 2x5 with the Bloodless Pharaohs...
it was sold for about a quarter at the used record store in downtown Bremerton.
A demo or something.



Me Andy, McKnight (both brothers?) and Ben saw The Dead Kennedys, The Fartz and The Germs (really?) at the Showbox in 1979. Were nearly killed for real...but thats a story for another night boys and girls...