The Dictators: The Starwood, Los Angeles
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, ripping off English gravity and socio-political concerns and magnifying them (bigger and better, remember) till they deadpan you and themselves out of all existence. I mean, they dont even smile at The Ramones.
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