The one thing i can say about being in the Dicks is...we had fun. lots and lots of fun. even the dramas were fun. we loved to practice since it meant a party and friends coming by to hang out. We kept writing songs too. Glen or Buxf would come in with new tunes all the time. I must say they were so easy to work with and i never felt intimidated to let the words por out of me to the muic they played. Glen was a great guitar player. He could play anything. Most people looked at us a a sloppy drunk bunch of lazy creeps. well, although partly true---we were not lazy when it came to playing. songs like Right Wing-White Ring, Little Boy's Feet, Dead in a Motel Room....it was a blast. we were playing a lot too. We were lucky to be on of thee first bands to get called when out of ton bands came through. Either us or The Big Boys were usually on the bill. The Offenders, or the Next, tones of bands had sprung up and were all showing Austin to be a place to reckon with in the punk rock world. When the Big boys and The Dicks Randy and i would try to out do each other and tht certenly gave the people their money's worth. Biscuit was more creative than me. he would spend hours, or days, putting an outfit together. i would throw on some torn up dress and some nasty panties, a wig and i was ready. but it worked. Biscuit and i loved each other. we both remembered the boring pre punk time before we had bands and were taking full advantage of what was going on. the bit of creative competition between he and i was always a fun thing. never catty or done to be mean. our friendship was deep and both being lead singers in popular punk bands who just happened to be gay and big showoffs....well, it kept us close.
I remember when we heard Black Flag was coming to town. they were the top of the punk underground. during a show they did in LA the cops had showed up and a riot ensued...it caused national attention for ome reason. we had just seen Chuck Ducowsky (sp) on the late night Hollywood talk show Rona Barrett...we couldn't beleive the mohawked bass player was answering her quwstions about why the cops hated the punks...he was very cool and all at once they were cming to town. we did get on the bill and we very excited. they were very laid back and nice guys.. although they were not big talkers and kept amoung themselves they ere likable. the singer at the time was Dez, was the most down to earth and approachable. i wore a torn green stretch dress....a couple of sizes to small. i had a bleached Mohawk, and had taken about a dozen condoms and put a mixture of water and mayonnaise in each one and penned them all over the dress. now thi as 1981 and as common as rubbers might be today, in the pre AIDS early 80's nobody ever even saw rubbers...so a look of surprise was on the faces of the crowd. No one, as far as i knew, was dealing in 'cum' as a shock factor so i was proudly displaying my props. when i spotted someone in the crowd who looked really disgusted i would yank a rubber off the dress....heald on by a safty pin, and bite off the end then throw the dpipping condom and then. it caused a bit of a panic. i never understood why...after all it was just cum! they didn't know it was only a look alike to the filty seman filled safty device. Black Flag were a little shocked too. i guess they were not doing that in LA.
the next ime Black Flag passed through they had a new singer. Henry Rollins. He hated us. I mean he liked the music but thought we wee a bunch of alcoholics. he said as much while were were sitting on the porch of Buxf's house where they ere staying, or hanging out, or something. i just showed up and everyone was drinking cold beer on the hot afternoon. we were playing that night so getting warmed up was natural for us. i remember Henery coming out of the house , letting the screen door slam behind him and as marching down the stairs saying, "bunch of alcoholics!". we all laughed loud and started yelling about LA nd the light weight weight punk rocker....the rest of the band just laughed and we kept drinking. Henry was always nice though. In his rather offish way. i never cared though. i was too busy digging my own thing.
we played with all the bands that came thorugh Fear was one of the other bands i was excited about. Sadly, i don't remember more than i remember due to enjoying drinking too much and forgetting so much. My own friends and i had our own scene going on and wee never so cought up in the cool stuff.
soon, though, we tarted talking to Blacck Flag about putting a record out on SST. Kill From the Heart was coming. So was San Francisco.