tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51440595280676332992024-03-13T00:40:17.984-07:00The DogsThe Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219140099386072077noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-54588607195475651962011-01-04T20:16:00.001-08:002011-01-04T20:22:22.629-08:00BACK IN THE STUDIO WITH THE DoGs!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1xLjI1-TahzymC_DNiiExXhb8uZ6raSaXbkOrqNbbTsLfuhGmrCvbBQiBWtpBIK-NqJu6WD-hUpXS3PvQGn_RshtuwpppMDso5l4-ABpvdsL1DLnWZlqeNVCrxnfTlIvezA_utq4wLA/s1600/77rename.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1xLjI1-TahzymC_DNiiExXhb8uZ6raSaXbkOrqNbbTsLfuhGmrCvbBQiBWtpBIK-NqJu6WD-hUpXS3PvQGn_RshtuwpppMDso5l4-ABpvdsL1DLnWZlqeNVCrxnfTlIvezA_utq4wLA/s400/77rename.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558551831565443314" border="0" /></a><br />Tony Matteucci Loren Molinare Mary Kay The DoGs<br />photo: (C) Heather Harris<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJo1jx3EjT6OMsVfvUCat9uc9jDDUFHjR_gzxeOqz0my_787aFmsL9XxVI8-lNW3qGv1SOslm2rG1CUuN21ZJV2vC9AX5D6uHlWgF_mreTkDCEwDYSngfhuS8se5aYtrQDt5qmYhPKU8/s1600/_-38-6.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJo1jx3EjT6OMsVfvUCat9uc9jDDUFHjR_gzxeOqz0my_787aFmsL9XxVI8-lNW3qGv1SOslm2rG1CUuN21ZJV2vC9AX5D6uHlWgF_mreTkDCEwDYSngfhuS8se5aYtrQDt5qmYhPKU8/s400/_-38-6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558551142747620914" border="0" /></a><br />Mary Dog Photo (C) 2011 Heather Harris<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpmcbMleefi4l9Fdv3rZB7DLMU1Fn-jkIMZH9wlPKdYSKAoDp8lZFZfACu-HYbEUBtBDDf8ipMZ2B9OCr8Az_8R3r0g2O3PCpIn6vIuWPat_yH0u0_MnwuX96pCwLahiaRi9lZgC_eT8/s1600/_-68-2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpmcbMleefi4l9Fdv3rZB7DLMU1Fn-jkIMZH9wlPKdYSKAoDp8lZFZfACu-HYbEUBtBDDf8ipMZ2B9OCr8Az_8R3r0g2O3PCpIn6vIuWPat_yH0u0_MnwuX96pCwLahiaRi9lZgC_eT8/s400/_-68-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558550976306000162" border="0" /></a><br />Mary Dog Photo (C) 2011 Heather Harris<br /><br />Detroit/L.A.'s venerable hard rock/punk legends The Dogs were spotted back in the studio recording all new material this last December chez Paul Hilton, seen at the board through the window, with bassist Mary Kay Dog looking fetching as ever. Tentative title is "Hypersensitive" for the planned March 2011 release. Photos (C) 2011 Heather HarrisThe Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219140099386072077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-92205881682102556772010-04-05T21:46:00.000-07:002010-04-05T21:47:17.004-07:00FROM FAST FILM HEATHER: THE DoGs!!!!<div style="text-align: center;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYfSdXkRgA4EWWMmErd8Rb6xaMoEuyJ64cauU8TXsGvzFIuLGi_8HT9YNevArMvhxlWJuVrKEO11mv3EBvD7i5UYO27nLCrZsmUKeYX_GrpcrbDFXsQxAtxGMIqGL653wdb-s6BRGe-s/s1600/Copy+of+Copy+of+DSC_0111-01.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 353px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYfSdXkRgA4EWWMmErd8Rb6xaMoEuyJ64cauU8TXsGvzFIuLGi_8HT9YNevArMvhxlWJuVrKEO11mv3EBvD7i5UYO27nLCrZsmUKeYX_GrpcrbDFXsQxAtxGMIqGL653wdb-s6BRGe-s/s400/Copy+of+Copy+of+DSC_0111-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455322036535893682" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >all photos (C) 1985 - 2010 Heather Harris. All Rights Reserved.</span><br /></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH8jzp9Xd5bErUwbF1-PxQDpFCr_v7cPPJihO2DFBQ1u5eVqxvqw_b7xVMZxYcE-B0Fs4Ng7mDag7TsSPDunaRkDjOjy8TySpNdW7QYjvVBRGYkitymLd0LjmLh9et3xJ8X8FK5as6oJc/s1600/Copy+of+DSC_0101-01.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH8jzp9Xd5bErUwbF1-PxQDpFCr_v7cPPJihO2DFBQ1u5eVqxvqw_b7xVMZxYcE-B0Fs4Ng7mDag7TsSPDunaRkDjOjy8TySpNdW7QYjvVBRGYkitymLd0LjmLh9et3xJ8X8FK5as6oJc/s400/Copy+of+DSC_0101-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455322340311285554" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The hardest thing to do in art remains chronicling one's own self objectively if accuracy is required. The second highest hurdle of subjectivity is to write about one's friends, hence no blog heretofore about The Dogs, a legendary punk band whom I've known for two and a half decades while considering bassist Mary to be my closest female friend. I found at least a voice sputtering through in relaying instructions to their videographer for a shoot in my studio last summer, excerpted as follows.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Joel</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">-- Thanks for fitting this in. (-technical specs followed-)</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">What might make it fun for you as opposed to them (they live for this stuff) is your encounter here with some genuine, lifelong subversives. In no way intellectuals, as artists they are real do-ers, activists as opposed to bookish shoegazers, always creating, and they have impressed the hell out of me in my acquaintance with them for the last two of their four decades as a band.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">I thought about this re-reading your "what is art anyway" blog on your site (Joel definitely deserves a plug here http://www.wayhome.com ).<br /><br />Don't be fooled by their friendliness, one of them a family man with a traveling music equipment sales job, one of them still amazing-looking with a flirty laugh alongside near technical perfection of her bass, one of them's can-do agreeability belying his complete percussion mastery.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2yYHnkNavNXJNnkdGloTTd5tEJhSQUMazUY0tkmVyx6uEXElSb1Ef5UQAHgS0FjxugoqyOFYqOMnZbkVlXOrpCG3P5jzn4MbJgGXEnpkQRBs_pHudyEdkX4hhyphenhyphen0GNoTQx-YePT3M5k9Y/s1600/DSC_0235-01.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 132px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2yYHnkNavNXJNnkdGloTTd5tEJhSQUMazUY0tkmVyx6uEXElSb1Ef5UQAHgS0FjxugoqyOFYqOMnZbkVlXOrpCG3P5jzn4MbJgGXEnpkQRBs_pHudyEdkX4hhyphenhyphen0GNoTQx-YePT3M5k9Y/s200/DSC_0235-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455603909082176914" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6jrBVdDoFfSj2wtG9aUy_W_CkpM7heUd6XtSSaIp28wzArZtIa1kFcJs0k5AOzTStCzpbdumXV9v-_HNImHmGEzhlMQ3I-oV57shynUnoubBMc5MGPEOYtTJsl3EDShOVCRL2myJ6MAM/s1600/Dogz20color.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6jrBVdDoFfSj2wtG9aUy_W_CkpM7heUd6XtSSaIp28wzArZtIa1kFcJs0k5AOzTStCzpbdumXV9v-_HNImHmGEzhlMQ3I-oV57shynUnoubBMc5MGPEOYtTJsl3EDShOVCRL2myJ6MAM/s200/Dogz20color.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455604344018344770" border="0" /></a><br />They were once kids who opened in the '60s for the MC5 and the Stooges in their native Detroit, supported S.D.S. and all the (original) anti-war stuff, frequently were arrested for starting riots there, played for free, played festivals, refused to pay-to-play here, toured the U.K. and Northern Ireland in the 1970's (Mary told me our '94 Northridge earthquake damage reminded her of normal Belfast,) maybe kick-started punk at CBGB's wearing their street clothes of leather jackets and torn jeans onstage (with future Ramones watching,) definitely kick-started DIY punk in L.A. with their Radio Free Hollywood four-walling of live venues along with chums The Motels and The Pop, opened for Van Halen, AC-DC, Kiss, all the later punk legends, Guns N' Roses, in fact you name 'em, they probably opened for them, survived Phil Spector's gunplay, were name-checked by Henry Rollins, became cult legends around the world enough to easily tour packed venues in Japan in 2007 and to astound Mr. Twister's record company in Italy during Chainsaw's reunion Euro-tour in 2004 ("You are friends with The Dogs?!?") but never plugged in or got any payoff and yet <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DIDN'T QUIT</span>.</span></span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZnroRP6nJW8Ae1dZ0p2O8O8yhXadv0TeBn-Nb_PZYsQBTbBv3AHT_2V3nRNO1A2BZedNezEuGawTZcQgIF1GpQ60EdqfYka9OR1SOMNgR8JoSzuFJ6RzTo770UZRgTMC5mI2uyuUkfg/s1600/Dogz8.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZnroRP6nJW8Ae1dZ0p2O8O8yhXadv0TeBn-Nb_PZYsQBTbBv3AHT_2V3nRNO1A2BZedNezEuGawTZcQgIF1GpQ60EdqfYka9OR1SOMNgR8JoSzuFJ6RzTo770UZRgTMC5mI2uyuUkfg/s200/Dogz8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455655289839723314" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrL1t3DyY2fA050pDYbfKK2KeTCt0qhjEAe02vy2BH-AbjTXuis19z4nrlbKVih1z0NF0xLfcXtgX5mfKPb9tj401wzvPUJ1biMzsEE_vZxeMtKwR63LEvryOK0WDzLe4oRDXPxgu7Bdk/s1600/Dogz4Lor.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrL1t3DyY2fA050pDYbfKK2KeTCt0qhjEAe02vy2BH-AbjTXuis19z4nrlbKVih1z0NF0xLfcXtgX5mfKPb9tj401wzvPUJ1biMzsEE_vZxeMtKwR63LEvryOK0WDzLe4oRDXPxgu7Bdk/s200/Dogz4Lor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455655725066812194" border="0" /></a><br /><br />They've survived personal fall-outs, triple-bypass heart surgeries, major addictions, not to mention the foremost enemy of rock and roll, the passing of time. Yes, they've all played in other bands in the last two decades as well and continue to do so (Mary-She Rok and Kanary amongst others; Loren still in Little Caesar, Texas Terri's band and Gilt Lily in the past; Tony played some damn gigantic Metal Festival in South America no less) but how many musicians remain authentic enough to keep their actual teenage dream alive (Mary and Loren were high school sweethearts remaining bandmates despite breakup) this late into adulthood without recompense? As full time artists no less?</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0jrDHhTwXQW-eXggeJ_TGxGnXJpR0aKrv5VgI7Fw1jKWRkyG5sEGhjoHh_7z0sE7ofnw8wqIC1Li9pcNtfZxFuBR8O_u3R1MEZISJAcfsuePZxZ1IXi6t_Pe8WGCHzRXar51K87NudYw/s1600/Copy+of+Dogz9.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 161px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0jrDHhTwXQW-eXggeJ_TGxGnXJpR0aKrv5VgI7Fw1jKWRkyG5sEGhjoHh_7z0sE7ofnw8wqIC1Li9pcNtfZxFuBR8O_u3R1MEZISJAcfsuePZxZ1IXi6t_Pe8WGCHzRXar51K87NudYw/s200/Copy+of+Dogz9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455601661931582178" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZwaQKNlAASPUOph48ISVK45jze-gKxh_6LlMeH5e4wDOaqqDVY1xxYcnEaqqCTDwTXJXdjKATvXhj0kYa8w2Icns8ObeLoGEhxIn6C2e7YnGX5isQ59d-ps2pzO8u_I2IE1oT33BCuo8/s1600/Copy+of+Dogz25color.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 137px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZwaQKNlAASPUOph48ISVK45jze-gKxh_6LlMeH5e4wDOaqqDVY1xxYcnEaqqCTDwTXJXdjKATvXhj0kYa8w2Icns8ObeLoGEhxIn6C2e7YnGX5isQ59d-ps2pzO8u_I2IE1oT33BCuo8/s200/Copy+of+Dogz25color.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455602048442712450" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">All this info only supplements the major aspect of The Dogs to their fans: their music. It accomplishes all the impossible paradoxes of all great art: concomitantly complex yet simple, personal yet universal, and always mind-blowingly right for <span style="font-family:verdana;">power trio-hard rock. That'll always speak for itself.</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Addenda: as Retrokimmer noted upon introduction, you can't believe the fun, cheerful, unproblematic people you first meet as The Dogs are such hardcore, speedmetal-fast, technically adept, monster players. Can one rock forever at the same intensity? Hell, yeah.</span> </div><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCQdVVWh_ZrnHgHGzkd9i2YKzIQrSeuaGfx7vwbRO2rhD2lEWpff7_H6XLWUHoZBCxhebHO633CoM7r0DIwDc9veG1X1CiGtgsuaeiZRnP_1Awe83RuEO-I7J9MjwlD33OKl4jNXOUZrE/s1600/Copy+of+Copy+of+DSC_0064.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 362px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCQdVVWh_ZrnHgHGzkd9i2YKzIQrSeuaGfx7vwbRO2rhD2lEWpff7_H6XLWUHoZBCxhebHO633CoM7r0DIwDc9veG1X1CiGtgsuaeiZRnP_1Awe83RuEO-I7J9MjwlD33OKl4jNXOUZrE/s400/Copy+of+Copy+of+DSC_0064.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455601033874298098" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAx7tgqXNO9zdLP5iefMUTCELpm55lY5rU8v_EteQIwG9h-q4is-eZmyI8QPVn_AyAL1pVxZdwyPsoLZ0utLmPzn00eJ5DOE2wQ2nxx2xc7P4KUgN5ylTOuD2ZFGS58ZbQPeGpPGzZeg/s1600/Copy+of+Kane.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAx7tgqXNO9zdLP5iefMUTCELpm55lY5rU8v_EteQIwG9h-q4is-eZmyI8QPVn_AyAL1pVxZdwyPsoLZ0utLmPzn00eJ5DOE2wQ2nxx2xc7P4KUgN5ylTOuD2ZFGS58ZbQPeGpPGzZeg/s320/Copy+of+Kane.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455656302724873234" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_MI-LFg6uaoXA3YPBIgAauMlNRFyNydiJXHE4SeFXB4Ry3ooBJwmBb9w2IZ0Qo7kGIyG2e8-WeT46IfxDQiTHvAZLq6WIBXLwt-jZYZhmnk78iQ2BBkvfnTgOA50kG5pmZkZmW6jud5s/s1600/Dogz13color.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_MI-LFg6uaoXA3YPBIgAauMlNRFyNydiJXHE4SeFXB4Ry3ooBJwmBb9w2IZ0Qo7kGIyG2e8-WeT46IfxDQiTHvAZLq6WIBXLwt-jZYZhmnk78iQ2BBkvfnTgOA50kG5pmZkZmW6jud5s/s200/Dogz13color.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456686137639912002" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaRUv4TiqSJlIpLARdhmChMKGKW53h4jsHRdNUn3VUKCX87y3bU4OHxAbXTx-jGMV9ffued051aoNQc7YvYmfpKExXftVwC7cX0zyJR4_f2h7X4RHgfxwYxYalJzeNqy0sgYL6k9pVq8/s1600/Copy+of+DSC_0237-01.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaRUv4TiqSJlIpLARdhmChMKGKW53h4jsHRdNUn3VUKCX87y3bU4OHxAbXTx-jGMV9ffued051aoNQc7YvYmfpKExXftVwC7cX0zyJR4_f2h7X4RHgfxwYxYalJzeNqy0sgYL6k9pVq8/s200/Copy+of+DSC_0237-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456687195094413602" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiXCJ7LYBZK-MPGmU3XXqM7U7lO-GmqDYuf2uv_Y0pbY-74sdVPy-BGmdhcGqmnjE6ETB81TvaGxNmf_nzir8po9v2le2U5euwUASpJsVFj3_1sAlUbt-xXyGaTVqms9jL0vC2nkE9iRc/s1600/DSC_0220-01.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 132px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiXCJ7LYBZK-MPGmU3XXqM7U7lO-GmqDYuf2uv_Y0pbY-74sdVPy-BGmdhcGqmnjE6ETB81TvaGxNmf_nzir8po9v2le2U5euwUASpJsVFj3_1sAlUbt-xXyGaTVqms9jL0vC2nkE9iRc/s200/DSC_0220-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456687836117131874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Photographs herein are The Dogs from 1985 through 2010, featuring Loren Molinare, Mary Kay and Tony Matteucci.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Original 1960s/70s Dogs' drummer Ron Wood (the other one) is shown in my pic of the Dogs with the late Arthur "Killer" Kane (of the New York Dolls.)</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> At the bottom right of this post, Mary collapses giggling after her backwards somersault while still performing killer bass-lines in The Dogs' video shoot of "Punk Rock Holiday</span>," <span style="font-family:verdana;">2009.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEcfxyiea-copOYlYoYQ9ln5XZH_wdufOWqPjD9BSbVQa1jun3HLs88aELtWG3R1YzOWmb3H_2_Agh3gHivtus22JulR3_V8Gr8s_Gwwur41qZuQbAfvnR5SeZq8I8x8878HAEIggPKTI/s1600/Dogz2Mary.jpg"><img style="float: left; 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margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5kdEbOymhEFpHWxaj4-Lp6zZQ729z8exq1hYMn6XtVcs_00gGD_lYPydrBHADVGHAskqxUbYjw0rg4TqOtBz4zQvJgIXFB11vFeujOiXUpuYq3hI4O-NiPqlMUafCzkDSZJ4n8OcafiU/s320/Copy+of+Copy+of+DSC_0112-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456682417067439938" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2wo148xQddb-2OgKG0T22J5VdN8UDFxT7PKAVjAo2JKMuuW6E-ROg4L0_UNIF9tt1hmCwRI7ekfOQMtlD1SrGIOiT6eZzWSBbReFjtIwmsSeBCXEfwXElLa0mDsfgsw5hXPNVASSDfZE/s1600/DSC_0205-01.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 145px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2wo148xQddb-2OgKG0T22J5VdN8UDFxT7PKAVjAo2JKMuuW6E-ROg4L0_UNIF9tt1hmCwRI7ekfOQMtlD1SrGIOiT6eZzWSBbReFjtIwmsSeBCXEfwXElLa0mDsfgsw5hXPNVASSDfZE/s200/DSC_0205-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456688426007609810" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-9755675411448453662009-10-14T20:22:00.000-07:002009-10-15T16:10:17.449-07:00The Dogs - Slash Your Face is Sound Track to Punks Book Promo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/StcTTFwyNsI/AAAAAAAAEd0/MQYBP1eKcNk/s1600-h/punks.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/StcTTFwyNsI/AAAAAAAAEd0/MQYBP1eKcNk/s400/punks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392800297484695234" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Sharon M. Hannon has written a book called "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Punks-American-Subculture-Subcultures-Countercultures/dp/0313364567/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4">PUNKS, A Guide to an American Subculture</a>" The DoG's song "Slash Your Face" is the soundtrack to this promo, and of course The DoGs are in the book.<br /><br /><object width="375" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/okIrS4XxxDg&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/okIrS4XxxDg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="375" height="300"></embed></object><br /><br />Unlike other volumes on the punk era that focus on just the music—and primarily on British punk bands—Punks: A Guide to an American Subculture spans the full expanse of punk as it happened in the United States, from the late-1960s blast from Iggy Pop and the Stooges to the full explosion of punk in the mid 1970s to its next-generation resurgences and continuing aftershocks.<br /><br />Punks covers it all—not just music, but the punk influence on film, fashion, media, and language. Readers will see how punk spread virally, through fan-created magazines, record labels, clubs, and radio stations, as well as how mainstream America reacted, then absorbed aspects of punk culture. The book includes interviews with key members of the punk subculture, including new conversations with people who participated in the punk scene in the 1970s and 1980s.The Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219140099386072077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-6238644565286065952009-08-03T18:27:00.000-07:002009-08-03T18:28:50.904-07:00Alejandro Escovedo with The DoGs AUG 5TH<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs36BHBtY2xxwH_mi-9gT8fFAQzHLF628Q_kok2CSjPzhH7GyWlxMz_BixqH2dQHQs6G_jDFe_4jW4acIDUUk3V3SS4g9yRnowv-KJhBpRsqopaR9sF7F9mUAW-iTX5tHXM1OqkCK5EIA/s1600-h/aug%25205th%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 310px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365914316722187746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs36BHBtY2xxwH_mi-9gT8fFAQzHLF628Q_kok2CSjPzhH7GyWlxMz_BixqH2dQHQs6G_jDFe_4jW4acIDUUk3V3SS4g9yRnowv-KJhBpRsqopaR9sF7F9mUAW-iTX5tHXM1OqkCK5EIA/s400/aug%25205th%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Alejandro Escovedo with The DoGs AUG 5TH this show is blend of old school Class of 77 punks with present day Americana Roots and Detroit Rock + RoLL values.The Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219140099386072077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-71552608915846183112009-07-10T16:13:00.001-07:002009-10-15T05:18:35.196-07:00MARY DOG: MIDWEST TOUR<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/SlgDN0-LJ4I/AAAAAAAADlY/hVMRa3Gf0h0/s1600-h/tdg22.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 273px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357035292849809282" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/SlgDN0-LJ4I/AAAAAAAADlY/hVMRa3Gf0h0/s400/tdg22.jpg" /></a><br /><div><br /><br />Lansing was the perfect fit for us as always, because even the audience includes your basic headbanger rockers that I'm comfortable with. I loved Ann Arbor because, in a good way, it's the land that time forgot. It's still all the great things I remember: streets packed with people walking around, everybody mingling, so alive, cosmopolitan, almost magical like San Francisco used to be. I thought this was just the coolest thing. </div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghUmITiOPvkeNk7HgK9BvusCrlyLuqo0qYscG_Yko1pKAh_ZrKSHvmtOKNgDT06Qy2QiJy2Y4v0AZ8ugD2RdhRBYAy9HoVk3bUENJIf4Zf45ZV9Hyt9AsHuNd_VALOzbEwA1JV3u72hiI/s1600-h/mary_jack.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 267px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356974033345590498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghUmITiOPvkeNk7HgK9BvusCrlyLuqo0qYscG_Yko1pKAh_ZrKSHvmtOKNgDT06Qy2QiJy2Y4v0AZ8ugD2RdhRBYAy9HoVk3bUENJIf4Zf45ZV9Hyt9AsHuNd_VALOzbEwA1JV3u72hiI/s400/mary_jack.jpg" /></a></div><div><br />But I got my biggest deja vu flashback in Toronto. From onstage at the Bovine Sex Club, I looked out at an audience that reminded me of my own high school days. The girls all wore really, really short skirts and really, really high heels, an unfortunate shoe choice for those that were completely toasted.<br />--Mary DoG</div>The Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219140099386072077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-11619876644351393442009-07-08T03:41:00.000-07:002009-10-15T05:18:40.396-07:00THE DoGs MIDWEST TOUR<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIvjncosxjbO2XzrZ6WPuo6LygDELkJ7DzescWYFW2X9yyd2CJncbIf8mkBuW4mR6ubZonLj0deVyAgY5smb1iUVB7pJzUEk8zYi0sdWb4sDtndr3-LFHwA1LI2qbPX2JSASyJEkx_YLw/s1600-h/4dogs%2520torontojen%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356037964979208194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIvjncosxjbO2XzrZ6WPuo6LygDELkJ7DzescWYFW2X9yyd2CJncbIf8mkBuW4mR6ubZonLj0deVyAgY5smb1iUVB7pJzUEk8zYi0sdWb4sDtndr3-LFHwA1LI2qbPX2JSASyJEkx_YLw/s400/4dogs%2520torontojen%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div><div></div><br />It’s been a couple of weeks since The DoGs went back east for our short Midwest Tour playing our home town Lansing and the Stooges home town Ann Arbor, Cleveland and of course Toronto at NXNE. Mary and Tony and myself felt totally free and totally humble getting the opportunity to play 5 shows in 6 days and coming back where it all started for The DoGs.<br /><br />Lansing thoughts: It’s always great to go back home to see family and friends and reconnect with our roots of where we came from. After all these years to come back home and drive down the streets and see the parks where we played at free concerts it is a humbling experience.<br /><br />The total non electric show acoustic show at The Record Lounge was great especially with my little 5 year old grand niece “Vada” checking me out to see if I was gonna be real or just another lame adult. Well I passed the test this time thank god! Many thanks to Sue , Gary, Michael and Brad Phelps, Randy Perez and Skott/Bermuda Porductions for making it happen with a lot of help from our friends.<br /><br />Ann Arbor at The Blind Pig was a cool show lots of great people and bands we played with. We also met in the flesh the Tech Diva Kim Maki (<a href="http://retrokimmer.com/">RETROKIMMER</a>) along with our Partner in Crime “<a href="http://detroitjack.blogspot.com/">Detroit Jack</a>” from Future Now Records.<br /><br />Cleveland: We stayed at our friends John and Kathy Thompson’s family’s 1970’s “Goodfellows styled PuNk RoCk Palace in Shaker Heights. The gig at the Beachland was high energy and met our rocking friends from the Australian the band “Muscle Car”<br /><br />Lansing: Macs Bar: A hot and sticky Midwest thunderstorm night it was amazing that tons of old friend s and young and wild DoGs showed up and kicked out the jams. We had Ronnie Wood DoGs original bad boy come and close the show.<br /><br />Toronto: NXNE The Bovine Sex Club: The Dogs first trip to Toronto and we loved the city and the people we got to hang with our cool Manager Mario Escovedo and Maren Parsul. The gig was wild and I know The DoGs will be back to rock Toronto soon.<br /><br />Loren DoGThe Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219140099386072077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-87057375918471277232009-06-30T19:43:00.000-07:002009-10-15T05:18:44.387-07:00LIVE IN LANSING, MICHIGAN<a href="http://detroitjack.blogspot.com/">FROM DETROIT JACK! </a><br /><br /><object width="385" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ngG372Cau2M&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ngG372Cau2M&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="385" height="300"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-69551345856951588172009-06-18T14:27:00.000-07:002009-06-18T15:21:53.679-07:00DoGs ROCK ANN ARBOR!<iframe src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?set_id=72157619903060920" align="middle" frameborder="0" height="450" scrolling="no" width="450"></iframe><br />MCB's newest contributors <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/christian_nicole/sets/72157619903060920/">Christian and Nicole</a> were out late and for the highly anticipated return of <a href="http://www.thedogs1970.com/">The Dogs </a>who kicked ass and took names all night.<br /><br />Look for a show review to be added here later today (see below) and if you missed the show head on out to Lansing tomorrow for another great night of detroit punk at Mac's Bar.<br /><br /><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Ann Arbors' rockin' history came full circle last nite (June 17, 2009) at the Blind Pig, when The Dogs ripped open the wounds they last inflicted some 35 years ago. For the young punters, a chance to find out if they were 'Tuff Enuff' to handle the full onslaught of an old school high energy Detroit/Lansing band. For the older Dogs fans, it was more of the band that refused to give up the fight back in the day! It was crystal from the outset, that their beloved Dogs had upped the antee with new and enhanced ass kicking energy. The Killed By Death heros went for the juggulars of the pups who dared to venture too close to the cage. Veteran packs just howled up at the moon from the safety of their Lazyboys, rationalizing it to be safer than taking the Dogs by the tail! </span></em></strong><br /><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span></em></strong><br /><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >-- Detroit Jack</span></em></strong><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><em>"MCB IS DETROIT"</em></span><br /><a href="http://www.motorcityblog.blip.tv/">Check out more MCB-VIDEOs here </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-32206611816107261862009-06-16T19:48:00.000-07:002009-06-18T14:36:28.144-07:00Classic Lansing Punks Unplug For Rare Gig<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_rUGkpjbRy3g62vBK-Q3NwHItMKP3WUmR7srGP-LCKg0NMvR018Me34naYH8ny0bHBLbE-MYdazzMB7rF1tigRETt6BO5AgDDTiSL7ClH8Y_Bo7ROPVGx1H-AMzZ5P7WSxT4EhLIINfQ/s1600-h/_resized_450x337_dogs_2.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348123380522145042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_rUGkpjbRy3g62vBK-Q3NwHItMKP3WUmR7srGP-LCKg0NMvR018Me34naYH8ny0bHBLbE-MYdazzMB7rF1tigRETt6BO5AgDDTiSL7ClH8Y_Bo7ROPVGx1H-AMzZ5P7WSxT4EhLIINfQ/s400/_resized_450x337_dogs_2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/article-3087-lounge-dogs.html">From The City Pulse </a><br /><br />by <a onclick="return hs.htmlExpand(this, { contentId: 'highslide-html-2', objectType: 'ajax'} )" href="http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/articles.by.Author-286.html">Rich Tupica</a><br /><br /><br /><div>Since forming in 1969, Lansing’s classic punk band The Dogs have only performed two acoustic gigs, one of which was June 15, at The Record Lounge, a small vinyl store in downtown East Lansing.<br /><br /><br />The warm room was packed with new fans, former band mates and people who grew up watching The Dogs throughout the ’70s.<br /><br /><br />Most of that same crowd will likely also attend The Dogs gig this Friday, June 19 at Mac’s Bar in Lansing, where the band will be its loud, usual self. </div><div></div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihJzVUU5k9NweGcYALXWkzJRUNnGSW-ojSDoyTj_j1TqHMi4iUIkp5AykyFZf19kc44QiNAMDI433-jz8Nw3Og6cWoihtAltYTNni1ZXv6eWOBRraYuME89hGF_z8SOX4xhS3fO3W0Hpw/s1600-h/art3087nar.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 224px; HEIGHT: 168px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348123315107613266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihJzVUU5k9NweGcYALXWkzJRUNnGSW-ojSDoyTj_j1TqHMi4iUIkp5AykyFZf19kc44QiNAMDI433-jz8Nw3Og6cWoihtAltYTNni1ZXv6eWOBRraYuME89hGF_z8SOX4xhS3fO3W0Hpw/s400/art3087nar.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div><br />However, those who packed into The Record Lounge Monday witnessed not only great songs, but between song banter and memories from the band’s rock ‘n’ roll past. Also, this show was completely unplugged. No amps, microphones or drums were used. The “drums” were a barstool, and bassist Mary “Dog” Dryer (apparently without an acoustic instrument), simply tapped drumsticks on her stool and the wooden record bins that surrounded her.<br /><br /><br />Loren “Dog” Molinare lead the show, singing and bashing on his acoustic guitar while occasionally springing off his stool with guitar hoisted in the air.<br /><br /><br />“I wanted to do something different that we’re not doing at Mac’s or the other gigs, songs I wasn’t prepared for,” Molinare said moments after the show. “I think spontaneity makes magic happen.”<br /><br /><br />Molinare said the band picked songs not commonly played at recent dates.<br /><br /><br />“We did ‘Class of ‘70,’ and ‘Younger Point of View,’” he said. “We played ‘Everything is Cool,’ that’s from our second album.”<br /><br /><br />The set was closed out with a tribute to Ron Asheton, guitarist for The Stooges, who died in January.<br /><br /><br />“It bummed me out when he died. The Stooges were a huge influence on us,” Molinare said. “I mean, ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog.’ I got that 45 and I got the idea to call the band The Dogs, Which offended people in Lansing. They were like, ‘That’s what you think of yourselves? Your just some dogs?’ I was like, ‘If this is pissing everybody off, it’s a great name.’”<br /><br /><br />Molinare said his band hasn’t turned its back on its Michigan roots in the 40 years its been in existence.<br /><br /><br />“Ron Asheton’s primitive, Ann Arbor sound was just a huge influence,” Molinare said. “We fly that Detroit and Ann Arbor rock ‘n’ revolution flag for guys like him and [the MC5’s] Fred Sonic Smith and Rob Tyner.” </div>The Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219140099386072077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-82643702821271924032009-06-16T19:04:00.000-07:002009-06-18T14:36:34.993-07:00The DoGs in ANN ARBOR, MI<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/SjhPc951HbI/AAAAAAAADKk/PsizK6pndNk/s1600-h/BlindPig170001-2.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 242px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348111916574514610" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/SjhPc951HbI/AAAAAAAADKk/PsizK6pndNk/s400/BlindPig170001-2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />06/17/2009 09:00 PM -<br /><br />Special Appearance by: Dennis "Machine Gun Thompson"<br />The Blind Pig<br />208 S 1st St<br />Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104<br />734-996-8555<br /><br />The DoGs with Dennis MachineGun Thompson/MC5/New Order fame will be sitting in with The DoGs to shake up the walls of The Blind Pig. This is the first gig for The DoGs in Ann Arbor since 1972. Look out the amps will be singing the rocking revolution rock from this legendary Michigan pre punk hell raisers returning home to the Detroit/Ann Arbor area.<br /><br /><br />It's been 40 years since The Dogs, Lansing Michigan started playing Detroit style punk rock ala "slash you face" during a time when the country was at war, unemployment reached double digits and the need to for real rock-n-roll anarchy was at an all time high...<br /><br /><br />Not much has changed, except the years of excess and living a rock-n-roll lifestyle have only made The Dogs stronger and wiser and even more dedicated to doing what they know best.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-41492933782667949222009-06-12T21:58:00.000-07:002009-06-18T14:36:54.356-07:00Punk Goes to The Dogs: Interview Japan Times<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/SjMyy6tXKMI/AAAAAAAADCk/c0y2WUpkK5o/s1600-h/dogs194.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 331px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/SjMyy6tXKMI/AAAAAAAADCk/c0y2WUpkK5o/s400/dogs194.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346673032953276610" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Punk goes to The Dogs<br /><br />By TEPPEI INAMOTO<br /><br />The last time a gang of degenerate Detroit punks came to Japan, they sparked a near riot, with thousands of fans storming the stage. That was at the Fuji Rock Festival this summer, and those responsible were the re-formed Stooges.<br /><br />News photo<br />Detroit punk band The Dogs, contemporaries of The Stooges, play in Tokyo this weekend.<br /><br />"I can't promise a riot," says 10-year resident of Japan Jack Waldron of the upcoming shows he has organized by The Stooges' Detroit brethren, The Dogs. "But I can promise some kick-ass energy and righteous attitude."<br /><br />A power trio comprising Loren Molinaire, Mary Kay and Ron Wood (no, not that one), The Dogs formed in Lansing, Michigan in 1969, two years after Iggy Pop's Stooges.<br /><br />Like <a href="http://machinegunthompson.com">MC5</a>, with whom they have played, The Dogs' politics were as important as their music. Before John Lennon wrote his tribute, they penned "John Rock & Roll Sinclair" in homage to the poet-provocateur sentenced to 10 years in prison for giving two joints to undercover narcs.<br /><br />Later, The Dogs left Michigan, and became instrumental in the punk movements of Los Angeles and New York, where they played with The Ramones.<br /><br />"The first time I heard The Dogs was in 1995," says Waldron. "It shook my Detroit gut so hard."<br /><br />So hard, in fact, that Waldron tracked the band down and has now put together "Doggy Style," a 28-track tribute album on his own Future Now Records label that's made up of underground Japanese punk, garage and hardcore acts. Among the local artists covering Dogs tracks are Boris, Melt-Banana, Mad 3, Gimmies and Jackie & The Cedrics (whose member Rockin' Jellybean designed the album's artwork).<br /><br />I 94 Review <a href="http://www.pacifictionrecords.com/japan/CD/VA_doggystyle.shtml">HERE</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-63584314398936890402009-06-12T11:26:00.000-07:002009-06-30T20:12:44.101-07:00PuNk RocK HoLidaYAfter seeing so many Carnival Cruise commercials on TV with Iggy Pop’s song “Lust for Life” in them. I had the idea of writing a song sort like a Punk Rock Sea Cruise, which turned into ”Punk Rock Holiday”<br /><br /><br />The song is about not wanting to face the day or your messed up reality, and just saying screw it! I ‘m leaving on a Punk Rock Holiday...<br /><br />The video stars my stepson Marlon who is wearing The Pagans<a href="http://www.myspace.com/pagansclepunk"> </a>t-shirt in tribute to his father Brian Hudson drummer of the Cleveland Band "<a href="http://www.myspace.com/pagansclepunk">The Pagans</a>".<br /><br />Loren /The DoGs<br /><br /><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mZ1gpZTa0m4&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mZ1gpZTa0m4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object>The Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219140099386072077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-33150289868740970162009-06-08T19:32:00.000-07:002009-06-12T21:50:05.864-07:00DETROIT'S THE DOGS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/Si3KO5D1PlI/AAAAAAAAC8E/fJ9M5yt13KE/s1600-h/Beachland0001-2.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 298px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345150689942519378" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/Si3KO5D1PlI/AAAAAAAAC8E/fJ9M5yt13KE/s400/Beachland0001-2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><h2><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.brokenheadphones.com/?p=1477">Detroit’s The Dogs Are Making A Comeback!</a><a href="http://www.brokenheadphones.com/?p=1477"></span></a></h2><br />Formed in 1969 in Lansing, Michigan, the trio of “Loren Dog” Molinare (guitar and vocals), Mary Dryer (bass), and Ron Wood (drums), channeled the pummeling power of Detroit rock and Chuck Berry inspired riffs into tough tunes with a pissed off social conscience.<br /><br />Raging out of the legendary Motor City rock scene of the ’70s, which spawned such musical touchstones as the Stooges, MC5, Amboy Dukes, Up, and other lesser known but equally ferocious proto-punk acts, The Dogs packed all the feral energy and cultural angst of that era into their live shows and an enduring set of recordings.<br /><br />The Dogs opened for such acts as the MC5, Ramones, Television, Dictators, AC/ DC, Kiss, and Van Halen, and became one of the seminal LA punk bands of the era after locating there in the mid ’70s following a stint in New York<br /><br />They disbanded soon after returning from a ‘78-’79 tour of England, finding that hair metal had taken over the scene and punk had fallen out of favor.<br /><br />With the 2001 release of the ‘Fed Up’ compilation on Dionysus Records, which they answered in 2003 with a set of new material entitled ‘Suburban Nightmare,’ The Dogs were encouraged to hit the stage once again. 2007 saw the release of ‘The Dogs Tribute… Doggy Style,’ a 26-band, 2-CD package from Future Now Records that also features several historic, unreleased tracks from The Dogs.<br /><br />A live DVD, ‘Purity Not Perfection,’ has been released in Mar 09, and a new CD and live dates in the US, Europe, and Japan are slated for 2009 — the year that will mark The Dogs’ 40th anniversary.<br /><br />So if you find yourself a fan of the original punk rock, the classic punk rock, or even some good rock n roll perhaps it would be in your best interest to head up to the Beachland to cheek these guys out! I know I am highly considering making it out there if I can.<br /><br />CLASS OF 70<br /><br /><br /><br /><object width="375" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3XRDd0CZ1tY&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3XRDd0CZ1tY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="375"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-52784698410950305262009-06-06T19:19:00.000-07:002009-06-12T21:49:41.954-07:00ABOUT THE DOGS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/SiskAhqjQ6I/AAAAAAAAC68/H5gyj4J5F1k/s1600-h/DOGSBW.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 356px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/SiskAhqjQ6I/AAAAAAAAC68/H5gyj4J5F1k/s400/DOGSBW.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344404974260667298" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />THE DOGS<br /><br />It's been 40 years since The Dogs left Michigan playing Detroit style punk rock ala "slash you face" during a time when the country was at war, unemployment reached double digits, and the need for real rocknroll anarchy was at an all time high...<br /><br /><br />Not much has changed, except the years of excess and living a rocknroll lifestyle has only made The Dogs stronger and wiser and even more dedicated to doing what they know best.<br /><br /><br />Raging out of the legendary Motor City rock scene of the '70s, which spawned such musical touchstones as the Stooges, MC5, Amboy Dukes, The Dogs packed all the feral energy and cultural angst of that era into their live shows and an enduring set of recordings.<br /><br /><br />Now they're back, and rocking harder than just about any band -- young or otherwise -- that dares to call themselves punks.<br /><br /><br /><br />Formed in 1969 in Lansing, Michigan, the trio of "Loren Dog" Molinare (guitar and vocals), "Mary Kay" Dryer (bass), and Ron Wood (drums), channeled the pummeling power of Detroit rock and Chuck Berry inspired riffs into tough tunes with a pissed-off social conscience. Perhaps best known for their classic breakout single, "John Rock Roll Sinclair," released in 1976 at the dawn of the punk explosion and named for the leader of the militant White Panther Party and manager of the MC5, the band followed up with the searing "Slash Your Face" in '78.<br /><br /><br />Spin Magazine has hailed "Slash Your Face" as one of the top 10 punk rock songs of all time. Many of The Dogs best known compositions, including "Fed Up," "Slave to Fashion," "Younger Point of View," and "Years Gone By," stands as cutting social observations that are as relevant today as they were decades ago. Commented Molinare in a 1999 interview, "Those kinds of songs are social observations about how corporate thinking stinks because people’s needs are second to the almighty dollar, or how certain political mindsets are repressive and offensive to humans. I mean, the master race kind of thing just never fucking stops, so we wrote about a lot of human injustices."<br /><br /><br />The Dogs opened for such acts as the MC5, Ramones, Television, Dictators, AC/ DC, Kiss, and Van Halen, and became one of the seminal LA punk bands of the era after locating there in the mid '70s following a stint in New York. They disbanded soon after returning from a '78-'79 tour of England, finding that hair metal had taken over the scene and punk was no longer welcome. But history always repeats itself, and, as Molinare says, "the band wasn't ahead of its time so much as timeless."<br /><br /><br />With the 2001 release of the "Fed Up" compilation on Dionysus Records, which they answered in 2003 with a set of new material entitled "Suburban Nightmare,"<br /><br /><br />The Dogs were encouraged to hit the stage once again. 2007 saw the release of "The Dogs Tribute... Doggy Style," a 26-band, 2-CD package from Future Now Records that also features several historic, unreleased tracks from The Dogs. The band embarked on a tour of Japan last year, and has been playing well-received West Coast shows with founding members Molinare and Kay along with their former '80s-lineup drummer Tony Matteucci as well as drummer Ken Mundy, both filling in on the occasion when the rebellious Wood "is in trouble with the man!" A live DVD, "Purity Not Perfection,"is out now out Bermuda Mohawk Productions, and a new CD and live dates in the US, Europe, and Japan are slated for 2009 -- the year that will mark The Dogs' 40th anniversary. Timeless is indeed the right word.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-55932082097506060062009-06-06T19:05:00.001-07:002009-06-12T21:49:25.594-07:00THE DOGS SCHEDULE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/SisgiICADFI/AAAAAAAAC60/jAgbE_bHjRQ/s1600-h/reddogs.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 288px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344401153448741970" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tn3huAudp2U/SisgiICADFI/AAAAAAAAC60/jAgbE_bHjRQ/s400/reddogs.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />The Dogs return to their home turf in the Northeast three-excluse shows before NXNE in Toronto<br /><br /><br />June 17th The Blind Pig-Ann Arbor, Michigan<br />June 18th The Beachland Ballroom-Cleveland, Ohio<br />June 19th Mac's Bar-Lansing, Michigan<br />June 20th Bovine Sex Club-Toronto Canada<br /><br /><br />The Dogs<br />www.myspace.com/thedetroitdogs<br />This is the real Detroit Rock ala The Stooges and and MC5. The Swami (John Reis from RFTC) aired The Dogs live on his radio show and started a resurgence of this Iconic three piece band that is still as raw and fresh as it was in 1978. Just finished demos and are ready to hit the studio…Just wrapped a packed west coast and Northwest Tour and SXSW. Slash your face!<br /><br /><br />Mario Escovedo<br />WWW.REQUIEMME.COM<br />Mario@requiemme.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-48399873285704547412009-06-06T11:21:00.000-07:002009-06-12T21:49:20.302-07:00THE DOGS SHOW IN CLEVELAND<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdD3NomgXgsTnkQKiITeg_zha7jvnmXEduZ_jESLC2iw9WDqJ4emK-8utCtqunCPLr2504r0n_fixr9pMqCUDcMxs-KDQN5XZNb4LxZhh6bLCSi6gskJuQTD8tc5AOL_0V7ngu67douY/s1600-h/Beachland0001-2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdD3NomgXgsTnkQKiITeg_zha7jvnmXEduZ_jESLC2iw9WDqJ4emK-8utCtqunCPLr2504r0n_fixr9pMqCUDcMxs-KDQN5XZNb4LxZhh6bLCSi6gskJuQTD8tc5AOL_0V7ngu67douY/s400/Beachland0001-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344281642455045522" border="0" /></a>The Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219140099386072077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144059528067633299.post-31262862429953165942009-06-06T11:06:00.001-07:002009-06-12T21:49:14.542-07:00The DoGs Coming to Ann Arbor, MI June 17<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzAregTXeMkt8C6zp8WW4DkfjpTzXX7Y_tGUqbkiBsEplfdogi9AvzDaOfNpgCwfVI2YFJy5diA760MIMPzWF12sPjtya4rZ8AVp_vGb2z1-o8HhISQemlFikIJt8lDEOGz-iwY8r114/s1600-h/BlindPig170001-2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzAregTXeMkt8C6zp8WW4DkfjpTzXX7Y_tGUqbkiBsEplfdogi9AvzDaOfNpgCwfVI2YFJy5diA760MIMPzWF12sPjtya4rZ8AVp_vGb2z1-o8HhISQemlFikIJt8lDEOGz-iwY8r114/s400/BlindPig170001-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344277741107861938" border="0" /></a>The Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219140099386072077noreply@blogger.com0