THE DILS
The Dils were an American punk rock band of the late 1970’s, originally from Carlsbad, California, and fronted by brothers Chip Kinman and Tony Kinman. They appeared as the second act in the “battle of the bands” sequence in Cheech and Chong’s film, Up In Smoke, where they can be heard performing “You’re Not Blank” (which ends with drummer Buddy Hate complaining that he could not hear anything without stage monitors). (More from Wikipedia)
The Eyes date from the earliest days of punk rock in Los Angeles. I ran across their first recordings on a 1998 compilation album of releases on What Records? called What? Stuff, on Bomp! Records, that I just picked up. The first two bands listed on the cover, the Germs and the Dils are fairly well known as these things go; I had some of their songs already elsewhere, with “I Hate the Rich” by the Dils being a particular favorite.
(July 2010)
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Bruce Joyner began hearing about the growing punk rock scene in Los Angeles – the Dils, X, the Blasters, the Weirdos, and the Zeros are bands that he cites – and he quickly put together a band called the Unknowns.
(June 2011)
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As Ron Silva of the Crawdaddys left high school, he advertised for a rock band that he was thinking of forming; after being contacted by vocalist Jeff Scott (who had just left the seminal punk band the Dils) and drummer Josef Marc, he instead became the guitarist in their new band called the Hitmakers. They quickly became part of the growing DIY music scene in San Diego. A joint show in 1977 at the Adams Avenue Theatre by the Hitmakers, the Dils and the Zeros was the first big punk rock concert in the city. Later Steve Potterf joined the Hitmakers as their second guitarist, and Joel Kmak became their new drummer.
(January 2015/2)
