The Dictators
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The Dictators: Coventry Club, Queens NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 2 May 1974
PUNKOID PLEASURE ...
Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, April 1975
LIVING IN NEW YORK has never been easy for the older generation, but it's even tougher for their offspring. ...
The Dictators - The Dictators Go Girl Crazy
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 12 April 1975
PSSST. WANNA BUY a dirty record? ...
Wayne County and Handsome Dick Manitoba: War of the Gargantuas
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, June 1976
NEW YORK — One early spring evening at CBGB's Wayne County was wrapping up his parody of Patti Smith when a disturbance erupted. All that ...
The Dictators: The Handsomest Man In Rock And Roll
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 16 October 1976
You may have been ready for Patti 'n' the Pistols 'n' the Ramones, but are you as ready as MAX BELL for The DICTATORS and... ...
Report and Interview by Lester Bangs, Screw, November 1976
IT'S A WARM New York night in the spring of 1976, and there are a lot of places that the press moguls who publish, edit, ...
New Releases: The Kids Err Alright
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, July 1977
REMEMBER "PUNK ROCK?" For a while there it was the supreme hip misconception — a much abused catch-all referring in general to any sort of ...
The Dictators: Manifest Destiny (Asylum 7E-1109)
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 28 July 1977
THREE YEARS ago I dismissed the Dictators' first album by saying that the joke of a bunch of musical-mental incompetents acquiring a record contract had ...
The Dictators: Manifest Destiny
Review by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, August 1977
IT WOULDN'T BE hard. One could assemble a tidy list of contemporary Major Acts whose initial fate it was to be cast as "critics' favorites": ...
New York Lights Up With Soggy Matches!
Overview by Robert Duncan, Creem, November 1977
A Consumer Guide To Rock's Last Drag by Robert Drizzle Duncan ...
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1977
GROSS. LOUD. Fun. Funny. Fast. Flash. All words which can he applied to the Dictators, the New York City bad boys who toured here last ...
Dictators Debunk New York Chic
Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 17 December 1977
SO WHY IS DICK Manitoba nicknamed Handsome? ...
The Dictators Look For The Perfect Wave
Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1978
The Record Plant, one of New York's top pro recording studios, is located in a fairly anonymous office building just west of Eighth Avenue in ...
The Dictators: The Starwood, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 26 August 1978
FOR A START, L.A. is about as distant from the Bronx as Tunbridge Wells, and not just geographically, here they are very serious about punk/rock/whatever, ...
Rock'n'Roll Made Me A Mensch: The Dictators Reach Maturity
Profile and Interview by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, September 1978
The IntroductionWHEN THE Dictators proudly declared themselves the "next big thing" on their rock ‘n’ roll-icking debut album Go Girl Crazy!, they were not, as ...
The Dictators: Back From The Bronx
Report by Gary Sperrazza!, New York Rocker, February 1981
NEW YORK– "You know how Teddy Pendergrass only lets women into his concerts? Next time we play here, we're only gonna allow 300 Ib. men ...
Traditional Discs: Is It R.I.P. FOR R.P.M.?
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1982
IS THE phonograph record on its deathbed? Neil Cooper, who runs a record company that doesn't sell records, thinks so. "Within five years, vinyl will ...
Cassette rock comes on with a "Roar"
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 27 May 1982
IN THE competitive record business, how can a company that releases dated rock 'n' roll and aims well below the top of the pops prosper? ...
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 1 May 1998
Still fast and loud, the proto-punks play it straighter and harder ...
Review by Jeremy Gluck, MOJO, 2001
THESE OLD-SCHOOL rockers put punk on the musical map, opening the way, for better or worse, for two decades of divergent tunes and dissonant noise. ...
The Dictators: live at El Sol, Madrid 24th November
Live Review by Lindsay Hutton, Rock's Backpages, 15 December 2001
HEY ANDY SHERNOFF! You tell us that your generation ain't the salvation of this R'n'R beastie but I beg to differ. ...
Report by Paul Rambali, Rock's Backpages, 19 November 2015
THE DICTATORS played in central Paris on Wednesday night and Handsome Dick Manitoba was in exhilarating Noo Yoik form. ...
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