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DFW Punk, covering the Dallas/Ft. Worth punk/new wave scene. If you thought Texas in the late ’70s was all about urban | dG1fMF9VWEYyMVFZWWs
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00:00When I started the Twilight Room in the summer of 83,
00:28none of those clubs were in existence.
00:30There was no alternative rock club in the whole of Dallas or Metroplex at all.
00:34Go back to, I don't know, like I said, I don't know the year,
00:38but you would go down to Studio D.
00:41I helped me and Rocky did some with some of the bands.
00:45Some of the bands were Youth Brigade that came in from L.A. on BYO,
00:51and the Misfits, the Circle Jerks,
00:56Code of Honor, a few bands that played in Dallas.
01:00We had a great time.
01:02The years, those years ago, those days,
01:04and Charlie Gilder was the main man whose club we're at now.
01:08It was great.
01:10He brought bands into Dallas that Dallas never heard.
01:13And for some reason I was booking local bands
01:16and just moved into, quote, punk bands.
01:18And then we moved into something called, what was it?
01:20New Wave.
01:21New Wave.
01:22It's a hot club.
01:23Yes.
01:24Cyberphonics.
01:25Yeah.
01:26And DJ's hot club Dolores G.
01:27I mean, then we'd go out to places like Gun Barrel City, Texas,
01:30and the people would go,
01:32Hey, boy.
01:33Why you got an earring in your ear?
01:34That's it.
01:35He's all right.
01:36That's just part of the decoration.
01:37Don't hassle us.
01:41The madman of the scene.
01:43He's the guy.
01:44Falling all over to places and shit, baby.
01:46I ain't falling all over.
01:47Ah, you fucking homo.
01:48They call this guy the George Bush of punk rock.
01:51Yeah.
01:52I think my only real regret is maybe I partied a little bit too hard
01:58and lost focus occasionally.
02:17PM Magazine.
02:18Tonight we're at Sound Warehouse on Greenville Avenue.
02:21If you were to come here and see their racks and racks of New Wave albums,
02:26you would get a pretty good understanding how popular and how big New Wave is.
02:30It's not just music anymore.
02:32It's America's newest subculture.
02:35You're going to find out about it in our very first story.
02:40New Wave is actually an enlarged version of the punk rock scene
02:43that began in England during the mid-1970s.
02:46New Wave music.
02:50And this is their latest album that is out locally.
02:52It's called Vibration Change.
02:54And actually you can hold it either way up you want to, I guess.
02:58Yeah, that'll fly that way.
03:00Leader of the group is Jerry Dirks.
03:02And Jerry, how long have you guys been together?
03:04About a year and a half.
03:05It's a really groovy time to be alive.
03:09We'll never swear to the stairs to leave that way.
03:13We'll never swear to the stairs to leave it out of my way.
03:16It's time.
03:17It's time for time.
03:19It's a really groovy time to be alive.
03:21It's time for time to be alive.
03:22Come on!
03:23Come on!
03:25Come on!
03:2630 years later.
03:29Try to win me over with your loving caring.
03:44Don't get sentimental or you'll get lost
03:49But if you pull up in a BMW
03:53I might have another look at you
03:57You might have exactly what I need
04:00Because money means so much to me
04:05Money means so much to me
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