Band Name: Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
Music Album: Live At CBGB's 1984
Album Release Date: October 2005
Music Genre: Punk Rock Hardcore
Record Label: Beer City Records
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 85 Tracks DVD
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles is a hardcore/punk/thrash metal band. Frequently credited as the abbreviated D.R.I. Although they began in Houston, TX, in 1982, the band relocated to San Francisco, CA, in 1983 and are generally associated with both cities. Today, they have band members in both cities.
D.R.I. is led by founding members Kurt Brecht (vocals) and Spike Cassidy (guitar). The band's name was taken from one of the insults that Brecht's father hurled at the group, who practiced at the Brecht family home, when they first started playing together. In the beginning, D.R.I. was a hardcore punk band and was renowned for their extremely short and fast songs (their debut EP featured 22 songs in 18 minutes). By the mid-1980s, the band was one of the first to mix hardcore punk and thrash metal, which would become known as the "crossover" sound. The band has a dozen or so official releases, as well as numerous appearances on compilations.
After the release of their last studio album to date ("Full Speed Ahead" in 1995), D.R.I. continued touring regularly over the next 20 years, with only a hiatus while guitarist Spike Cassidy recovered from cancer. The band did not record any new music until releasing the EP "But Wait... There's More!" in 2016.
| Live At CBGB's 1984 | |
| 1 | I Don't Need Society |
| 2 | Reaganomics |
| 3 | Commuter Man |
| 4 | Plastique |
| 5 | Why |
| 6 | Balance Of Terror |
| 7 | My Fate To Hate |
| 8 | Who Am I |
| 9 | Money Stinks |
| 10 | Human Waste |
| 11 | Yes Ma'am |
| 12 | Dennis' Problem |
| 13 | Closet Punk |
| 14 | How To Act |
| 15 | Give My Taxes Back |
| 16 | Equal People |
| 17 | On My Way Home |
| 18 | Bail Out |
| 19 | Snap |
| 20 | The Explorer |
| 21 | Slit My Wrist |
| 22 | Stupid, Stupid War |
| 23 | Counterattack |
| 24 | I'd Rather Be Sleeping |
| 25 | Running Around |
| 26 | Couch Slouch |
| 27 | To Open Closed Doors |
| 28 | God Is Broke |
| 29 | Soup Kitchen |
| 30 | Sad To Be |
| 31 | War Crimes |
| 32 | Busted |
| 33 | Draft Me |
| 34 | F.R.D.C. |
| 35 | Capitalist Suck |
| 36 | Mad Man |
| 37 | Misery Loves Company |
| 38 | No Sense |
| 39 | Blockhead |
| 40 | Violent Pacification |
| At The Masonic Temple 1984 | |
| 41 | I Don't Need Society |
| 42 | Reaganomics |
| 43 | Commuter Man |
| 44 | Plastique |
| 45 | Why |
| 46 | Balance Of Terror |
| 47 | My Fate To Hate |
| 48 | Who Am I |
| 49 | Money Stinks |
| 50 | Human Waste |
| 51 | Yes Ma'am |
| 52 | Dennis' Problem |
| 53 | Closet Punk |
| 54 | How To Act |
| 55 | Give My Taxes Back |
| 56 | Equal People |
| 57 | On My Way Home |
| 58 | Bail Out |
| 59 | Snap |
| 60 | The Explorer |
| 61 | Slit My Wrist |
| 62 | Busted Again |
| 63 | Stupid, Stupid War |
| 64 | Counter Attack |
| 65 | I'd Rather Be Sleeping |
| 66 | Running Around |
| 67 | Couch Slouch |
| 68 | To Open Closed Doors |
| 69 | God Is Broke |
| 70 | Soup Kitchen |
| 71 | Sad To Be |
| 72 | Sabbath |
| 73 | War Crimes |
| 74 | Busted |
| 75 | Draft Me |
| 76 | F.R.D.C. |
| 77 | Capitalist Suck |
| 78 | Mad Man |
| 79 | Misery Loves Company |
| 80 | No Sense |
| 81 | Blockhead |
| 82 | Karma |
| 83 | Argument Then War |
| 84 | No People / Shame |
| 85 | Violent Pacification |
D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) were among the first bands to meld hardcore punk and thrash metal, and remain among the best groups to have attempted that crossover. Counting fans of both genres among their own, the Texas-grown group was loud, fast, political, and angry. The show featured here took place at New York punk staple CBGB's, and allows audiences to travel back to 1984 to witness the mayhem that was a D.R.I. concert. Held in the same year that the band released their EP VIOLENT PACIFICATION, the concert shows the group at their best, with a violent energy that demands to be heard. Also included are highlights from another show on the same tour, held at the Masonic Temple in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as skate footage from Kristian Svitak's 2004 European tour. The footage combines to make this release an important document of punk rock history, both in the past and in the making.
In the middle of one of the most explosive HC sets ever caught on camera, D.R.I cranked it up and let loose in CBGB's, the spiritual home of HC, and for the first time, you can be there, watching the band do what they do best, tearing the walls down with
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