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Defenestration
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1980 - dawn of a new decade. Popular music was in a shake up. The punk sound had dislodged a pebble that started an avalanche of different sounds and styles that would swirl around the eighties like so many kaleidoscope colors. No "right sound" - all the sacred cows fit for bar-be-que and everything fair game. Just as long as the chemistry stayed balanced between the principle elements, namely Meade and Walker. The band recorded an EP on a shoestring in 1984 and along with The Flaming Lips. So now maybe ...
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scruffy the yak: March 2014
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Monday, March 31, 2014. DOA's Dave Gregg Passes Away. I only got to catch D.O.A. Once But I have always loved those early D.O.A. records. To me, Something Better Change and Hardcore '81 meant punk rock. I knew next-to-nothing about the Sex Pistols or Ramones or whatever you call punk rock. But I knew D.O.A. When I first heard The Dickies, I thought, "That's not punk rock! They sound NOTHING like D.O.A! Sadly, Gregg died yesterday. Photo at top by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward. Posted by chris yak. In 1980 and ...
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