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Starting off as a 100% pure, lightning fast hardcore punk band, D.R.I. (aka Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) eventually became one of the first bands to fuse hardcore punk with thrash metal, along with Suicidal Tendencies and Corrosion of Conformity. As the 1980s went on, they gradually mixed more elements of heavy metal into their sound; as they did so, their songs got longer and featured more sections and more variety in tempo. D.R.I. managed the then-rare feat of crossing over to metal audiences while retaining their skatepunk and hardcore fan bases — they had something for all those audiences to love (or hate). Vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Spike Cassidy were the two constants throughout the band’s frequent lineup shifts, and kept them going for well over a decade.
D.R.I. were formed in Houston, TX (USA), in May 1982, evolving out of a defunct hardcore band called the Suburbanites. Singer Kurt Brecht, drummer Eric Brecht (his brother), and bassist Dennis Johnson had all played in that outfit, and with new guitarist Spike Cassidy in tow, they renamed themselves Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, after a frequent insult from the Brechts’ father (who objected vehemently to their rehearsals). The band was soon performing live around Houston, and before the end of the year, they issued a 22-song debut, Dirty Rotten EP, on their own Rotten label. Pressed in limited quantities, it was reissued as a 12” LP in 1983, appropriately retitled Dirty Rotten LP. The wider exposure for this version helped make the group’s name in the punk underground, and after a supporting tour that year, they relocated to San Francisco.
D.R.I. were formed in Houston, TX (USA), in May 1982, evolving out of a defunct hardcore band called the Suburbanites. Singer Kurt Brecht, drummer Eric Brecht (his brother), and bassist Dennis Johnson had all played in that outfit, and with new guitarist Spike Cassidy in tow, they renamed themselves Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, after a frequent insult from the Brechts’ father (who objected vehemently to their rehearsals). The band was soon performing live around Houston, and before the end of the year, they issued a 22-song debut, Dirty Rotten EP, on their own Rotten label. Pressed in limited quantities, it was reissued as a 12” LP in 1983, appropriately retitled Dirty Rotten LP. The wider exposure for this version helped make the group’s name in the punk underground, and after a supporting tour that year, they relocated to San Francisco.
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Thrash Zone
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Crossover
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Dealing With It
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Shoutbox
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VitorMetallic wrote:
Crossover, great album in genre "crossover", and Dealing With It is the fuck album
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Chumsicles wrote:
first time I've seen metalheads AND punks at one show before
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Chumsicles wrote:
the Anaheim show was all kinds of intense. Intense heat, intense music, and intense stupidity from crowd surfers going before the band even started playing
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Elturtle wrote:
i cant fuckin belive i survived last night. If u see this band live good luck!
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DRIConvicted wrote:
Damn, just got home from their show at the Chain Reaction. If anyone went I was wearing a Toxic Holocaust shirt, add me :D
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ChaosUkDk wrote:
thrashers: to live for D.R.I. concert in mexico df !
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Elturtle wrote:
fuckin sunday is gonna be thrash
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etcetcetc00 wrote:
I just saw these guys for the first time on sunday, and it was one of the most intense experiences in recent memory. My ears were ringing when I woke up the next morning, and I'm still sore from the pit and all the stage divers, but it was all worth it. Such a tight show.
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PandmicSolution wrote:
Them with Magrudergrind was life altering.
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DRIConvicted wrote:
I'm seeing them in less than a week!
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aaronWHAT wrote:
Come to fucking England you cunts.
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abasofdoom wrote:
just saw them last night, fucken crazy
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ScumFucBondage wrote:
i saw em less than two weeks ago and it was so fuckin killer. i love D.R.I. fuckin eh br00tal pit
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DRIConvicted wrote:
tHEY'RE SONGS IS 2 DAM LONG!! [2]
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Moto_Psycho wrote:
SO FUCKIN CROSSOVER!
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darthcas wrote:
five year plan
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Elturtle wrote:
im so fuckin excited!
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FastAsFukk wrote:
Who Am I?! D! R! I! Fuck yeah!
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nalo503 wrote:
This Saturday.. D.R.I / Wehrmacht ... I may not survive ...
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quigley54 wrote:
friday, motherfuckers!
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D.R.I.
Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO, Denver CO, United States
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Slim's, San Francisco CA, United States
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Legends of Thrash, D.R.I., along with Common Enemy, Decandence
Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia PA, United States
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