The Punk Rock Sommelier ALTERNATIVE TV IGOR BASIN MICHAEL "PANKOW" BOEHLKE BOONARAAAS! BOY FROM BRAZIL SEZGIN BOYNIK BUZZCOCKS CHEETAH CHROME CZD DEAN DIRG RONALD GALENZA HENRYK GERICKE THOMAS GROETZ DICK HEBDIGE ALFRED HILSBERG STEWART HOME SIEGFRIED KALUS THE KIDS THOMAS LAU MARLENE MARDER MALCOLM MCLAREN LEGS MCNEIL PADELUUN BERT PAPENFUSS MARK PERRY HARRY RAG ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS SEDLMEIR ANDY SHERNOFF MARTY THAU TOKYO SEX DESTRUCTION VIVA L'AMERICAN DEATH RAY MUSIC Andy Shernoff entered the music business in 1971 as the editor/publisher of the “Teenage Wasteland Gazette”. Born and raised in New York City, he dedicated the fanzine to lampooning the pretensions and mores of the still nascent music industry. Though only a teenager at the time he received contributions from his friends and future rock legends Lester Bangs, Richard Meltzer and Nick Tosches. Writing and performing music proved to be his true calling, so in 1973 he founded The Dictators. Often called “the missing link” between the New York Dolls and The Ramones, Andy’s songs on their first album, The Dictators Go Girl Crazy (Columbia 1975) helped define punk rock a year before The Ramones and two years before the Sex Pistols released their first records. The band released 3 more records, Manifest Destiny (Elektra-1977), Bloodbrothers (Elektra-1978) and DFFD (Dictators Multi/Media-2003) and has a live CD due in late 2004. more... Andy Shernoff Homepage The Dictators „We aren’t arty. We were more into ‚Fuck art, let’s rock!’ The influence was more having fun and the audiences were more physically involved.” Andy Shernoff 1996 über The Dictators im Interview mit Billy Bob Hargus