| In 1975 they
released their first album
The Dictators Go Girl Crazy
which captured two
years too early the teenage degenerate aura that was later defined by The Ramones and New York's Punk fanzine. The critics were a actively hostile
and the public indifferent so two years were spent in relative limbo as
the house band for the Miss Nude America Contest.
A second album
Manifest Destiny
was released in 1977 and
a third
Bloodbrothers
in 1978. Both aimed for commercial streamlining but the conflict of interest
between the broader rock market and the Dictators and all they stood for
proved insoluble. They split.
History also records
Dick Manitoba heckling Wayne County from the audience at CBGB's and
receiving a microphone stand that caused him serious injury. The incident
divided the Max's and CBGB's crowds who swiftly chose sides. The Dictators
were blackballed from playing Max's and other clubs, but Hilly let them play
at CBGB's and the boys were back up and running again. |
