Beat farmers - California Kid / Anarchy in the UK

[desertrat218]

Me and my buddies carried him to the bar at Bogarts in Long Beach one night and threw him over it. He said "rough crowd tonight!" RIP Country Dick, always a great live show.

[albertrat1]

I see them in the commodore in Vancouver BC It was like the blues brother rahide scene with out the chicken wire ..full bottles of beer flying from the back and right past them and they played on it was Awesome and a one of a kind experiance ..rock on country Dick brother we love ya...

[Sionnix]

To the bar!

[daveyhar232645]

Cotati Ca at the The Inn Of the Beginning 1985! Carried Country dick to the bar with coop, Mginty and others! Country Dick and the boys came to my house to party after the show. He can drink and steal your woman for sure.

[markdcorcoran]

The definition of punk rock

incredible

[bgmckable]

I know I was drunk......and he was drunker......lol......"Call The Office" London Ontario and yup it was a great evening circa 1989

[masvx]

"He said 'That's my woman!'

I said 'That's no lie!'

I blew a hole in him as big as the sky!"

[ddshears]

WOW...I sure miss Country Dick...used to hang with these guys in Cali.

[scorcherfan]

Beauty and the beast.......saw these guys play with Jason and the Scorchers and they damn near burned the place down. Memories........

[bibulb]

Holy jeez, I'm on the balcony watching this one. (And well out of camera range.)

I THINK that there's a few members of the Missiles on stage, or Rolle's a fan - that's definitely an Atomic Fireball t-shirt.

[SheMuses]

@bibulb I was there and I would have sworn you were down front kissing the hem of CD's duster.

[pegpond]

USed to watch them at some really Tiny Bar on El Cajon Bldv. and like most fans from San Diego saw all the memers of the Beat Farmes come from other bands

[rojanko]

I actually got to hang out w/ the boys at the Ranch Bowl in Omaha, Neb before the show. Super cool, absolutely no rock pretense. RIP Country Dick (and BB). People think of CDM as a profane cartoon character - he was really a really nice guy who loved to entertain people. Jerry had the chops to play in any band and Joey turned into a great songwriter. What a great band.! Huzzah to RJ and JH!

[traghip93]

The following is a conversation I had with Dick after a show at the Lone Star in KC...

Rolle walks up to Dick...

Rolle says " i hit a fan! He's out cold in the parking lot."

Dick: "Is he dead?"

Rolle: " No."

Dick : " Then what are you worried about?"

Then a woman walks up to Dick...

Woman says : " I want to f**k you Dick."

Dick says to me and my friend : "Guys its been nice talking to ya."

[kcdirtslinger]

@traghip93 Those were the days for sure!!!

[mozgoda]

dick would never shy away from a free drink. I must have bought him a half dozen.... i miss the beat farmers

[arkmay]

awesome :)

[yeenman]

I'll never forget the night at the Belly Up Tavern when he autographed the ass of my wife's jeans "Dick Was Here".

[gmohan2762]

Perfect. Makes all the 'dick' jokes he heard as a kid worth it. ...

[yeenman]

His real name was Dan, so it don't apply, and yeah, he was a really smart and great guy. Raised more hell than any ten guys I ever met too. I really like when he ran for mayor of San Diego on the platform that he, if elected, would put the city councel on trial for "crimes against the community" and got something like 100,000 votes. He was a happy boy that day.

[gmohan2762]

Amen. I'd vote for him today, Chicago-style. Dead or alive!

[spamwagon]

Yup, Dan. First time I saw him was with the Penetrators at (I think) the old Adams Avenue theater with Johnny Kat. Saw him again with the Snuggle Bunnies, and of course countless times with the Beat Farmers. I asked once if my GF could give him a b-day kiss, and he unzipped. RIP Dan McLain.

[yeenman]

Yeah, that's him. We saw the Pens and Crawdaddies countless times, he drummed for both. The Pens opened for the Ramones once. My friend's girl then/wife now Jolie managed the Crawdads for a while and we'd hit almost every show, great band. We miss him a lot.

[ObeyVonZip]

I first heard this on The Sharkman Show on Z Rock. What a fucking amazing band! Everthing else fuckin sucks compared to the Beat Farmers!

[ricv64]

pretty much

[mdoggydog3]

long live the nights at BODIES

[weaseldragon]

and the Spring Valley Inn.

[kengk1234]

love it

[kyotonils]

Thanks so much for uploading this. damn, I wish I could turn back the clock and carry Dick to the bar one more time at the Belly Up or the Coach House, and be so young and perfectly drunk and happy that an entire bar full of strangers seemed like my best friends in the world. This is the first time in any video that I've seen the segue into Anarchy in the U.K.