I used to listen to these dudes way back when and I found out they released a new album. I fell in love with them all over again. Their sound is timeless.
I played bass in my middle school band because my parents wanted me to learn an instrument. Hated every second of it - nothing about the orchestral show tunes we were playing appealed to me - and as soon as grade 7 drew to a close, I returned it to the shop, assuming I'd never have to pick the damn thing up again. Fast forward several years, I'm 19 and living halfway across the country, smoking a joint on Wreck Beach with some friends. We decide to leave, walk up the hundreds of stairs back to the car, and by the time we finally made it there I could barely move from exhaustion. I'm sitting there in the backseat hyperventilating and my buddy puts a CD in the deck and this album comes on, cranked to 11. I don't think I said a word for the entire ride - not that anyone would have been able to hear me over the racket - just sat there, completely entranced by what I was hearing. When they dropped me off, I immediately looked up the band and legitimately could not believe that the sound I'd just heard was made by a mere two musicians. Something about that You're A Woman record just spoke to me and inspired me in a way that no album ever had before. It was a genuinely life-changing moment; the next day I trekked out to Long & McQuade on the bus and rented a P-Bass and a shitty little practice amp, and wrote my first (gloriously crappy) song on it later that night. It's a hobby that I've loved dearly since that day, one that has helped me find some stability and groundedness throughout the chaotic years of addiction, poverty and depression that followed - and one that has been equally crucial in keeping me going since getting sober and turning things around in 2018. I still listen to DFA1979's first two albums all the time, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who was inspired in such a way by their unique sound.
I had the chance to do an interview with them really great guy's! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fhc45yG1WB8.html&ab_channel=PrescriptionPunkRock
I've forgotten about the beaches those freaking beaches l o l... They should have been more popular just for their songs were Gimmicky but I was about it
