![]() ![]() It was a fictional band, with phony gigs, that would soon be real after he threw together a makeshift band of likeminded friends, including Buxf Parrott (bass), Pat Deason (drums) and Glen Taylor (guitar). ![]() He created a fake band called “The Dicks” and would draw up faux flyers promoting non-existent shows and post them across Austin. As the years rolled on, he never stopped vocally questioning the system.Īs the ’70s wound down, Floyd became enamored with punk rock, then a new genre. ![]() Growing up in the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, he was a conscientious objector. At the band’s genesis, Floyd was a 26-year-old transplant from Palestine, Texas. Through it all, singer Gary Floyd, the band’s openly gay singer, wasn’t afraid to loudly ruffle conservative feathers with Marxist lyrics and now-classic punk tracks like “Dicks Hate the Police,” an anti-cop anthem famously covered by Mudhoney.ĭuring its earliest years, The Dicks was a fixture at Raul’s, an Austin dive bar that attracted local freaks, scenesters, punks and artists. This last hurrah came 36 years after the raucous band’s formation in 1980-the onset of the Reagan era. ![]() On Halloween 2016, The Dicks played its final show at Grizzly Hall in Austin, Texas-the city that birthed the trailblazing hardcore punk band. ![]()
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