Dickies Make Crown Laugh Wild

........................................... p.5 12.11.06 Band Has Crowd Rolling

By kevin cole Daily Titan Staff Writer thebuzz@dailytitan.com

The legendary L.A.-based comic punk band The Dickies – Leonard Graves Phillips on vocals, Stan Lee on guitar, Dylan Thomas on guitar, Greg Hanna on bass and Travis Johnson on drums – set a breakneck pace that never faltered in their 20-song assault on the packed Underground Pub on Thursday.

The quintet saved up a sack full of props for the festivities including a gorilla mask, snorkel, dildo hand puppets and an inflatable girl.

The San Fernando Valley jesters had the standing-room-only crowd rolling in the aisles in response to the antics of the band.

The band started off the last Thursday Pub show of the semester with “Silent Night” as Phillips donned a Santa Claus hat.

Phillips pulled a warp-speed cover of the Barry McGuire ’60s hit “Eve of Destruction” out of his hat, followed by the frantic paced “Curb Job.”

“I’m gonna give you a curb job, I’m gonna break your face,” Phillips sang.

Phillips made frequent references to the comedian Michael Richards and the recent racial slurs to hecklers at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood. The 50-year-old front man dedicated the song “Shadow Man” to Richards.

“Shadow Man” is a tongue-incheek ode to a black super hero. As it is laced with racial stereotypes the band felt it a fitting tribute to Richards.

Phillips attempted an impression of Richard’s “Seinfeld” character, Kramer, and repeated the comic’s racial slur.

“Michael Richards said it and got in trouble. I said it and got a laugh,” Phillips told the packed Pub audience.

Pub policy prevented the encore that fans requested. The two original members from ’77 took a breather after the show, joked with their fans and spoke with the Buzz.

Buzz: What’s something unusual that’s happened at an event?

Lee: We signed autographs at the HMV record store after a show in New Castle. The kids broke the windows of the record store after the event, and the police came, and we were on the 6 p.m. news. That was maybe in ’78 and pretty overwhelming.

I remember the day I broke my right foot, and we started doing shows in a wheel chair and a walker. I started noticing people in walkers showing up in the audience.

If you missed The Dickies on Thursday at the Underground Pub their next appearance will be at Tremors in Riverside on Saturday.

Photo by Kevin Cole

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