Category Archives: Dictators Assembled

Trivial Pursuit Gone Too Far?

From the RPM version of the Trivial Pursuit board game, circa 1985:

Trivial Pursuit card front

Next page: The answer!

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YouTube Tuesday: “A Veritable Punk Rock Aria!”

For you this YouTube Tuesday: A masterful performance of “Master Race Rock,” recorded live at NYC’s late, lamented Coney Island High on Dec. 12, 1997. Thanks to Boulevard07 for having the foresight and gumption to upload it to YouTube and Twitter user @netmeg for proving that something with a lame name like Twitter can be used in cool ways.

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The Dictators Holiday Gift Guide 2009

Every Day Is Saturday cover Because the DFFD Blog exists to serve you, the Dictators fan — and because nothing says “yuletide cheer” quite like the music of the Dictators — we want to help you fill your stockings with the latest in ‘Tators entertainment this holiday season.

If you made your way here, and actually stayed, chances are that you already have all of the Dictators studio and live albums and, most likely, a choice vinyl single or eight.

But if you haven’t yet picked up their latest — the odds ‘n’ sods album Every Day Is Saturday, released in January 2008 — go ahead now. We’ll wait. (You can thank us later.)

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Amazon.co.uk
iTunes

Now get one for your mom. (She can thank us later, too.)

The Dictators may not be making music together of late (bad), but its individual members have at least been keeping busy creatively (very, very good). Which leaves us, the fans, with — at least! — five times the material to keep track of in the quest to complete our collections (good and bad). And, let’s face it, not all this stuff is available at your local Wal-Mart, so you can probably use a little direction.

Without further ado, we offer you the Dictators Holiday Gift Guide 2009:

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All I Want for Christmas Is . . .

eBay poster

. . . No, no, not this page of the August 1977 issue of New Wave magazine.

No, I want a time machine. Set for the date: July 30, 1977.

And a plane ticket to S.F.

But if you’d settle for the magazine, it’s selling (for a pretty penny) on eBay right now:

ORIGINAL AUGUST 1977 ISSUE OF NEW WAVE

— DFFD123

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Power Chords, Trash Talk: We Give Thanks

What we at the DFFD Blog are truly thankful for this Thanksgiving season:

  • Jaw-dropping Ross the Boss solos.
  • Manitoba talkin’ trash between tunes.
  • Words and music by Andy Shernoff.
  • Top Ten power chords, windmills.
  • J.P. bashing the hell out of shit.

GOD BLESS THE DICTATORS AND ALL THEY STAND FOR!

(And thanks-a-god for YouTube. Srsly.)

And you?

— DFFD123

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ARE YOU READY?! ARE WE READY?!

THE DICTATORS!SCOTT, ARE YOU READY?
ANDY, ARE YOU READY?
THUNDERBOLT PATTERSON, ARE YOU READY?
ROSS THE BOSS OF WESTCHESTER, ARE YOU READY?

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

THIS IS THE DFFD BLOG!

AND WE TALK THE DICTATORS!

Handsome Dick says one, Handsome Dick says due, Handsome Dick says 1, 2, 3, 4! …..

— DFFD123

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