I only got to catch D.O.A. with Dave Gregg once. But I have always loved those early D.O.A. records. To me, Something Better Change and Hardcore '81 meant punk rock. I knew next-to-nothing about the Sex Pistols or Ramones or whatever you call punk rock. But I knew D.O.A. When I first heard The Dickies, I thought, "That's not punk rock! They sound NOTHING like D.O.A.!"
Gregg played guitar with D.O.A. from '80 to '88, opening my ears and mind and heart to a whole new strain of music I didn't know existed.
Sadly, Gregg died yesterday.
The Enemy
General Strike
The Prisoner
Waiting for You
Watcha Gonna Do?
Slumlord
Unknown
War
Photo at top by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward.
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