The Dictators - The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!

In 1975, when punk rock and heavy metal were two opposing camps who barely who acknowledged each other's existence, The Dictators' first album, The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!, found New York's finest trying to bring both sides together in a brave, prescient, and (at least at the time) futile gesture. The band's "smart guys who like dumb stuff" humor, junk-culture reference points, and '60s cheeze rock covers ("California Sun" and "I Got You Babe" on one album) would seem tailor made for the crowd at CBGB digging The Ramones and The Dead Boys, but their sludgy and stripped down hard rock (and Ross "the Boss" Funichello's neo-metal guitar solos) were something else altogether. Read More