Photo courtesy of Dorothy Lee at Nuclearjackalope.com
We here at DFFD want to wish a happy birthday to the Bringer of Thunder, Dean “The Dream” Rispler!
— Salvi C.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Fantastisk Omgang af Fed Musik!
The Master Plan kicks off their summer vacation/European tour this coming Saturday, Aug. 25. They are a featured act at the annual Gutter Island Garage Rock Festival in Denmark. Here’s what we think is the promo info. Hell, it could be instructions on how to build a patio deck for all we know.
Gutter Island Garagerock Festival er en vigtig og uundværlig del af dansk festival tradition.
Det er den eneste festival, der udelukkende fokuserer på garagerocken og beslægtede genrer. Festivalen har eksisteret siden 2000 og afholdes hvert andet år, næste gang i august 2012.
Læs videre, hvis du vil vide hvad nogle af dens trofaste fans har at sige om den. Gutter Island er en drømme festival. Slet og ret. Skabt af lyst til rock, fællesskab og oplevelser i øjenhøjde.
Her kan publikum møde vandbærere, stjerner og legender – og musikere kan møde fans, festivalgæster og andre feriebørn fra storbyernes rockhuler.
På Gutter Island er der stort set lige så mange “ydende” som “nydende” deltagere. En festival der med afsæt i en sjælden ren blanding af entusiasme, knofedt og viljestyrke.
Et fremragende arbejde båret af stærke, dynamiske musikmiljøer – nu ikke bare i Danmark, men også i resten af Skandinavien Givet er det at arrangementet er den største fuldtræffer, der endnu har ramt øens fort”.
Yderligere bands vil blive annonceret lidt senere og vil gøre årets program til en sand lækkerbidsken af rå, hæsblæsende og helt fantastisk omgang af fed musik!
— Salvi C.
“Are You Talkin’ to ME?”
Today is Robert De Niro’s birthday, and what better way to pay a little respect to the man than by watching 3 minutes of his best work set to the sounds of 3 minutes of our guys’ best work?
— Salvi C.
Filed under Dictators Assembled, Video
400 Saturdays
We all get misty when we tell the “back in the day” stories about music. Maybe it’s a generational thing, or maybe it’s a natural reflection on how music is packaged and purchased now as opposed to 25 years ago, but it does seem like the whole buying experience was a lot more FUN back when it was a tactile event, as opposed to today’s purchases always being one click away. “400 Saturdays” is a new book, wonderfully compiled by Kim Johnson-Bair, that chronicles the lifelong quests and obsessions of 58 music fanatics.
While those interviewed come from various backgrounds, there are many common threads that repeat when reading their stories. Music was an active part of their growing up years, so the passion was as much inbred as it was genetically passed on. More importantly, almost everyone interviewed makes mention of how the search was almost as import as the find, how buying and interacting with other musicaholics was just as cool as the actual listening to the records was.
The Dictators get many mentions as influences, which shouldn’t be a huge surprise, considering that two of this site’s regular contributors are amongst the interviewees. The whole thing is a fun read, and has assumed a position of honor in my reading room. It’s available at 400saturdays.com.
— Salvi C.
Filed under Dictators Assembled, Vinyl
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