"He’s almost at pains to present his bona fides for discovering new music, never letting the fire go out. It gets tiresome, but the NYC scene in the mid to late 1970s is surely the most thrilling era to have experienced; we’ll lap up any and all memories of it."
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The recently reunited DICTATORS have just released a new video underlining their return.
Founder members of the NYC proto-punk legends Andy Shernoff, Scott ‘Top Ten’ Kempner and Ross ‘The Boss’ Friedman recently hooked up to make new music. With original drummer Stu Boy King having sadly passed away in 2018, the trio invited longtime friend and founding Blue Öyster Cult drummer Albert Bouchard to fill the drumstool.
Although Kempner has now sadly had to bow out for health reasons, the band will continue and ‘Let’s Get The Band Back Together’ is a perfect declaration of intent.
“My buddy Jesse Bates had a song called ‘Let’s Get The Band Back Together’,” explains Shernoff. “I thought it was really clever and funny so I asked him if I could fool around with it and put my spin on it. He said go for it, so I made few changes and recorded it on my own a few years ago but it was just so perfect for the Dictators that we couldn’t resist.”
Punk rock icons The Dictators are back with Let s Get the Band Back Together, a fitting title for their first reunion song which also marks the debut of new drummer Albert Bouchard of Blue Oyster Cult fame.
The band was formed in 1973 in New York City and released three albums before splitting up in 1978. Their style was entirely unique one predicated on punk rock energy with the laid back, party-time sensibilities of surf rock.
Not much has changed all these years later, evidenced by the jingle-jangle of Let s Get the Band Back Together. There s no need to pour through the song and look for some deep, hidden meaning it s good-natured fun about loading up your gear and playing a gig with an unforgettably slapstick chorus where the members of The Dictators shout out the song title slightly out of unison.
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