The D.I.s - Rare Cuts !
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08/06/2013 03:09PM
The D.I.s - Rare Cuts!
Hepcat Records 2009 Digipack
(as part of the Deluxe 2CD set Gears "Rockin' At Ground Zero" album reissue)
01. Taylor Yard Blues
02. Your Dad's A Cop
03. Leave Love To Me
04. Mohawk vs. DA
05. Devil's Music
06. Pray For Surf
07. The Drive
08. Hot Bitch
09. Yo-yo
10. People Like Me
11. Number
12. Is There A God?
13. Shot Down
14. Tears In My Beer
15. Down In Downey
16. White Dress
17. Mr. Soul
18. Sight For Sore Eyes
19. Jezebel
20. Drinkin' With My Friends
21. D. Island
22. Livin', Is Lovin', Was You
This deluxe edition of the Gears album is packaged with a second CD from Axxel G. Reese’s post-Gears band, The D.I.s (not to be confused with D.I., the Casey Royer led band that spawned out of the Adolescents). The band had a longer life than The Gears but was less prolific, recording a bunch of songs but only releasing one 12'' EP.
The music of The D.I.s is a mix of punk, rockabilly, blues, and good old fashioned rock and roll. You can kind of hear how had the Gears stayed together they could very well have evolved into this style of music. They were pretty ahead of their time as now this style of music has become much more popular than it was over 20 years ago when The D.I.s were around. The disc contains 22 songs and is a pretty solid listen from start to finish and if these guys were around now, they’d probably be quite popular.
This deluxe package contains two CDs in full digipak packaging with full artwork. Each disc contains a small poster with photos and flyers and while The Gears disc barely contains any liner notes at all, The D.I.s disc had much more useful and informative liner notes. The lack of lyrics or any real liner notes is my only complaint about the whole thing. The Gears material was remastered and sounds better than any of the previous issues and The D.I.s stuff sounds equally fantastic.
Considering the quality of both bands, I can’t see any reason why anyone interested in The Gears album wouldn’t pick up this deluxe edition, the second disc is well worth the extra cost and overall this reissue package was really well done and certainly worth picking up for new fans as well as old ones who may own the previous edition of Rockin’ At Ground Zero. (Punkvinyl.com)
Preserving The Gears' punkabilly influence, the D.I.s moved on to a broader definition of roots music. Many of Los Angeles' best-known punk denizens were D.I.s at various times - Jimmy Reed (Levi Dexter & the Ripchords), Matt Lee (Ray Campi's Rockabilly Rebels), Mike "Shakey" Wilcox, Thadius T. Baker, Patrick "Frenchie" French (The Joneses), "Venice George" Chavlez, Ron Emory (TSOL) and Jonny Ray Bartel (The Red Devils and The Knitters).
Although the D.I.s soldiered on through 1992, they left only one recording in their wake - the aforementioned five-track 12" EP "Lock & Load," produced by X's Billy Zoom. As well as being available as part of The Gears' Rockin' at Ground Zero (Deluxe Edition), fans can purchase it separately as The D.I.s: Rare Cuts!, for a $14.98 list price. Jonny Whiteside, known for his encyclopedic knowledge of punk and roots music, wrote the liner notes.
According to Whiteside's notes, "The D.I.s worked a mutant strain of loaded beat & roll, bristling with misfit rockabilly riff-slinging, fang-bearing punk momentum and mad, deep boogaloo. The band's near-militant attitude and gleeful aggression always adhered to rock ‘n' roll's purest elemental structure, and they crafted a set characterized by skull-denting, hip shaking grooves."
A historical note: When Tipper Gore began her tirade against filth and pornography in pop music, she did so one afternoon on live television outside Tower Records on Sunset Blvd., brandishing a copy of the D.I.s' Lock & Load, sputtering, "This is exactly what I'm talking about." Tower sold 500 copies in less than a week. (Pluginmusic.com)
Comme je vous en avais déjà parlé dans le rip de la réédition vinyle de l'album des Gears, je me suis procuré sa version Deluxe qui comprend un second CD du groupe né des cendres des Gears après leur split de 1982, et ai eu le nez fin sur ce coup. Je ne posterai pas le CD des Gears puisque vous avez déjà eu votre compte et puis si vous voulez les titres du 1er EP rabattez-vous sur la version Dionysus, sinon achetez l'album pour le titre démo supplémentaire, point barre.
Les D.I.s (Drill Instructors) allaient à contre-courant dans les années folles du hardcore punk californien, ils bradaient leur crète contre une banane ('Mohawk vs. DA') et jouaient la musique du diable telle qu'ils l'avaient entendue dans leurs tendres années, bref tout pour ne pas faire partie du décor et pourtant: c'est bien Joey des Ramones (leur groupe fétiche) qu'on peut voir sur une des photos ci-dessus, et c'est bien Billy Zoom des X de L.A. qui produit les seuls titres qui devaient voir le jour en 1984 sous la forme d'un EP 12'' 5 titres intitulé "Lock & Load". Cette compilation regroupe tous leurs enregistrements studio de 1983 à 85 plus 5 titres de 1990, tous d'une qualité excellente et qui donnent envie de ressortir le perfecto et le cran d'arrêt, voire le peigne pour ceux qui ont encore la chance d'avoir des cheveux et qui pour l'occasion feraient bien d'arranger leur mèche!
Tout est dit, c'est un pur moment de Rock'n'Roll que vous allez passer pendant 1 heure 16mn, avec des riffs qui fusent, la voix superbe d'Axxel Reese, et ceux qui connaissent déjà le travail de Billy Zoom au sein de X sauront reconnaitre les points communs que ces cool cats ont entre eux. Mes coups de coeur vont vers 'Mohawk vs. DA' et 'Yo-yo' mais je me régale du tout à toute heure, et un demi patron!
Pour infos supplémentaires, lire l'anglois du dessus et les notes comprises dans les scans, maintenant place à la musique!!!
Same Rips specs as usual, now grease that hair and go drink with yer friends alright!
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Comments
great post! unfortunately I get an error message whenever I try to decompress the file "The structure of the archive is damaged (Error #17540)"
Are you sure it didn't get damaged when uploading? that would be a pity as this is great stuff
It's a shame Laurent (whichever one you are) but no worries: try and repair the archive using Winrar as I always put recovery record option on when creating them. Otherwise, simply download the file again as I just did and it works perfectly fine. Don't get damaged in the way eh?! Cheers!
precious stuff my friend!
thank you very much!
sorry but what about "autistic behaviour"lp on entrèes?
I'm looking for it...
Hi Fran, I removed the ad for Autistic Behaviour 1982 never released album now on SRA records but here's the link it reffered to:
http://srarecords.com/shop/sra/autistic-behavior-shattered-catttle/
There's a bandcamp for it too, so you can make yourself an opinion:
http://www.reverbnation.com/q/4w7gfe
Wild and raucous hardcore from Philadelphia, pretty damn cool tmo! ;)
c'mon bro sto ,gimme gimme some rock 'n fuckin roll , Gears ,Joey Ramone ,Billy Zoom ...peut pas etre mauvais tout ça!___ je viens de découvrir les Jet black berries ,tu les connais ? pour fans de X ,Alley cats et surtout Gun club ,leur 2em lp' Desperate fires est vraiment bien ,jette leur une oreille copain!
Yo! Non connais pas mais vais checker illico, merci du tuyau darko!
Typo on the Album credits
"Shaky" is spelled "Shakey"
As in Mike Shakey Wilcox
And I was never in the Rockats (not for lack of trying)
Hey Mike, thanks for correcting Pluginmusic mistakes, and for dropping by too! Rockin' Cheers!!!
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