Dick Destiny & the Highway Kings

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I can't believe I got rid of my DD&THK albums years ago...Arrogance and...can't remember the other title.

Anyway, I'm gonna say Classic, just for my fond memories of the stupid revved-up big-guitar quasi-ZZ/BOC biker rock on the first album.

Howcum these have never been issued on CD, too?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 13 June 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Chuck Eddy to thread. I think he's the only other person who has ever mentioned them anywhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

They're both great records! Brutality is the other one. I found used copies of 'em fairly cheap on a trip to Philadelphia in the early 90's, but yeah you don't really see them around. Yeah, Chuck oughta have mentioned them - he's thanked on the back of Brutality.

They have this thin, reedy quality to the production which is totally mismatched for the image they are going for, which makes them kind of a funny listen. Destiny's voice kind of resembles the guy from Molly Hatchet at times. They do a cover of AC/DC's "The Jack", so you know their heart is in the right place. Also, they have a song called "Sorority Cooze", so classic for that!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh...You guys do realize that Dick Destiny now writes fairly often in the Village Voice (under a different name), right?

― chuck, Friday, 13 June 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, I didn't.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 June 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Sterling Clover?!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 13 June 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

NOT RICHARD GOLDSTEIN FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 13 June 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

no more clues, heh heh.

― chuck, Friday, 13 June 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

No, more clues!

http://www.labs.net/rocket/blue/blue.gif

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 13 June 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Try google, maybe? And Dick says I should taunt you by mentioning the obscure, unreleased third album, "Move Over for Dick Destiny."

― chuck, Friday, 13 June 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I tell? Nah, I won't. But he's a fave of mine.

― scott seward, Saturday, 14 June 2003 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

hint: his first name does not appear anywhere on the extremely amusing dick destiny @ the highway kings official home page. but his last name does, attached to a first name which is not his.

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 14 June 2003 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

haha ... all I know is that the "real" Dick Destiny would never use the word frisson!!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 14 June 2003 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i have no idea how my "&" became an "@"

dd and the hk's, of course, were born in the 1980s, years before bill gates and tim berners-lee invented the "@" symbol.

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 14 June 2003 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the "real" Dick Destiny would never use the word frisson!!

maybe this piece was his audition for the voice.

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 14 June 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, it can't be Kogan, can it?? The only picture I've ever seen of the guy he is holding a guitar, and I've never learned what band he was in. But he looks nothing like the Dick Destiny pictured on my albums.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 14 June 2003 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh this is gonna kill me.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

George Smith?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the answer lies here. I'm tellin' cuz I found it on google all nice and legal.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

messed up the link

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I do believe Anthony is right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. Guitar bands: The Datsuns, D4, AFI, and other losers -- the man's got some good spirit, that's for dang sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

the "real" Dick Destiny would never use the word frisson!!

Agreed. Surely the work of an imposter.

― Dick Destiny, Saturday, 14 June 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

haha - welcome Mr. Destiny! I just pulled out the records last night thanks to this thread. I must apologize for mischaracterizing you as sounding like the dude from Molly Hatchet - you don't at all! That's what I get for writing from memory. I must have been thinking of all the chugging riffage, which most certainly does.

Also, it's a shame Nugent responded to "Letter to Mr. Ted" by giving us the friggin' Damn Yankees.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 14 June 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Ted needed the sales. Anyway, "Craveman" and the
"Full Bluntal Nugity" DVD are rich in the old-fashioned
Ted-style. He found someone -- Mark Mendoza -- who can
imitate St. Holmes pretty good on "Hey Baby."

― George Smith, Sunday, 15 June 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"George," nice to hear from you.

So, any chances that Arrogance & Brutality come out on CD?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Monday, 16 June 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

If I have to do all of the heavy lifting, probably not. I made
that mistake fifteen years ago and, if anything, the market seems
even more hostile to this sort of thing now.

I could sort of see doing it if one could make real CDs, not just
CD-Rs,in lots as low as a hundred without being gouged.

The circulation of the vinyl in specialty shops with catalogs on
the Net seems to fill the entire need. Would anyone buy them?

― George Smith, Monday, 16 June 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

So, what's the deal with this unreleased 3rd album?!

Also, George I wasn't even aware of Craveman - so much for promotion - but did you ever hear Spirit of the Wild, the "reunion" cd with St. Holmes? Can't believe Nuge's ego allowed him to work with vocalists again. I've never heard it, but I've always wanted to. Sort of in the same way that I've always wanted to hear Foghat's Return of the Boogiemen, which came out around the same time. I've been waiting to find used copies somewhere around the $3-4 price point, which I'm sure will happen eventually.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The Highway Kings recorded material for a third record a couple years after "Brutality." It was stuff we'd been developed live over a few
years so it has a bit of a different vibe than the older albums --
more power trio-like.

And then the drummer quit to be in a country band which pretty much
ended things.

― George Smith, Monday, 16 June 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, the market is completely oversaturated right now, and I think you'd probably have a hard time selling 1000 CDs, let alone break even. Maybe if you combined both LPs onto one disc?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe. There's certainly enough room. I can't deal with a thousand
CDs, though, that's way too many. The house is already overflowing
with the things.

One hundred seems to be a good number. Getting people to buy one
or two every now and then is the other obstacle.

Since they're not going to be in stores, you have to peddle them
on the web. The only thing that sells in cyberspace, however, is
trinkets on eBay, fads of the moment, porn and stuff at Amazon.
No one actually buys stuff from those out of the way Net music
"stores."

I could always make it available for piracy but all the people of
the age of the Kings -- and, presumably, what fans there were --
aren't real sold on the Internet. Heck, my bass player never
got on-line and the drummer hardly ever uses his account.
popular stuff.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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