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The Dicks always gigged with Big Boys, and Austin Hardcore evolved around those two groups. The Dicks were led by Gary Floyd, a fat gay singer dressed in weird drag, who'd take enema bags filled with liver and condoms filled with mayonnaise and hurl them at the crowd.
The classic Dicks - frontman Floyd with mean-ass members bassist Glen Taylor, guitarist Buxf Parrot, drummer Pat Deason - started as a "poster band", the posters promoting imaginary shows at ficticious clubs, saying things like "First ten people with guns drink for free." Their first gig was May 1980, at "The Punk Prom" at Armadillo World Headquarters.
Gary Floyd, whose powerful Johnny Winter-style Texas Blues howl made him one of the era's greatest vocalists, was a virulent Marxist who delivered incendiary anthems like "Dicks Hate Police", the title of their first single (self released in '80 on Radical Records, not to be confused with R Radical Records, later MDC's label) and "Anti Klan." In '83 Maximum RockNRoll put the Dicks on the cover: a picture of Gary in a mohawk and mu-mu with the title: "The Dicks A Commie Faggot Band!??!"

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Big Boys - Fun Fun Fun

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On this date in 1982, Big Boys released their third record of their own (they released a split album with The Dicks). It was an EP called Fun, Fun, Fun.... It contained the tracks, "Nervous", "Apolitical", "Hollywood Swinging", "Prison", "We Got Soul" and "Fun, Fun, Fun". None of these tracks appeared on their debut studio album, Industry Standard (also known as the Where's My Towel? album). The Austin, Texas punk band lasted until 1984.

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Here You can find some photos related to the Texas punk/hc scene (1980-1984): Texas punk pioneers


KILL FROM THE HEART:

Welcome to KILL FROM THE HEART, a page devoted to documenting and discussing the roots of hardcore punk rock. The goal of this project is to make information, especially primary documents like interviews, available to as many people as possible. It is not meant to be a glorification of the past. If anything, we hope that access to documents from "back in the day" will demystify the early scene, which has been mythologized as some kind of paradise lost by many jaded elitists. There were great bands before the early 80's and there are plenty of great bands around today. In truth, punk was just as full of bullshit and bad ideas then as it is now. The punk scene is a place of contested meaning and competing definitions. Don't look through the info we've collected hoping to find some absolute, pure definition of what punk was or should be. This is impossible in a culture that has always been self-defined by the people who are creating it at a given place and time. This page collects artifacts from what was, at one time, punk rock. Right now the context, and therefore the meanings of what punk is, are totally different than they were then. Make up your own mind and draw your own conclusions about what is important.

In the present age of information as commodity, the DIY punk scene is under threat of losing our vital history to the vaults of collectors who covet records, zines, and other memorbillia of the past because of its exclusive value as a rare possession. This site is in opposition to that kind of hoarding collector culture and its foundation of elitism. It is limited by our knowledge and abilities, but in punk rock everyone is an expert.

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Discography of Texas Punk 1977-1983