Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Proto-Punk Legend/Former Debris Frontman Chuck Ivey Meets The Imperial Dogs!

"I loved the Imperial Dogs video!! Fantastic sounds and show!" says Chuck Ivey, bassist/vocalist/songwriter for Chickasha, Oklahoma-based Debris, whose 1976 indie album Static Disposal is now recognized as a futomic explosion of true-blue flame proto-punk (as evidenced by its 2007 deluxe extended reissue on Anopheles Records).

"Wish we could've been with you back then," Ivey continues." Seems like you had a lot of the same creative forces going. We all would've had a blast together I am sure."

Having actually witnessed Chuck play bass alongside fellow Oklahoma refugees guitarist Pat Garrett and drummer KK Barrett when the Randoms performed at the now-legendary Masque Benefit, held at the Elks Lodge, MacArthur Park, Los Angeles on February 25, 1978 -- and immortalized on the Dicks Fight Banks Hate volume of the Live At The Masque series of three CDs that was issued by Year One Records in 1996 -- Imperial Dogs frontman Don Waller can only concur ...

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