The Dickies - I'm Stuck in a Pagoda with Tricia Toyota

[Wehategod]

The Most Under Ratted Punk band of all time!!!!!!

[vanian]

The greatest US punk band EVER - stuff yer Green Day up yer jacksie!

[taradead]

OMG!...that guitar riff, tight drums and bitchin' lyrics (takes talent to rock a song about Tricia Toyota and Abe Vigoda) ...makes "Turning Japanese" sound like lame crap (which, depending on the time both were released, may have been the point).

[thereddeath1100]

this song is funny as well as catchy

[rezlerken3]

on RED



[lesliesalt]

wow i remember this one from back in the day. high school days:) still sounds good...

[macaholic100]

I,ve been diggin on the Dickies sinse I bought the incredible shrinking album somewhere around 1981? Or was it the Dawn of the Dickies? Anyway, I still have both albums in great condition even though I played the sh%t out of them.

[jeffpsd]

It's really Tritia Toyota (? the mis spelling) a news anchor in LA in the late 70's. She's still hot: Google her! And what a song! I'm sure she digs it.

[zoyclem]

Dawn of the Dickies was a great album. And I love this song. Thanks for putting it up.

[DCvagina]

It's a crime this band wasn't more popular.

[99rayb]

We loved em in the U.K.

[RedBryn]

@99rayb We loved 'em in England, too ;-)

[Hesche1]

Fantastic band. I have this record in blue vinyl. Brilliant :-)

[number7gracestreet]

oh wow cool, never heard the studio version

did not even recognize it, at first

but

brought a smile to my face

what a great band and show

thx 4 posting

[wheelworker1]

i remember tricia toyota, i think I love asian women because of her

[TheCherMonkey]

I like The Dickies. Could you subscribe to my channel...TheCherMonkey Channel...



[spawnyboy1]

Tricia Toyota use to be a local anchor/news reporter in the L.A. area on KABC or KCBS. I wonder how she feels being immortalized in this song.

[haitipi]

@spawnyboy1

Letritia R. Miyake (aka Tricia Toyota) started on Channel 4 (NBC), but really didn't get famous until her long running sting on Channel 2 (CBS), where many of us White kids in LA got our first case of "Yellow Fever". Then, Connie Chung (Maury Povich's wife) came to the scene to add a little competition

[djBigHeadBassground]

I love coming across videos like this, the original studio recordings, that was a great album and the HHS show with Celebrity Skin & Green Jello was sic, one of the craziest nights in Hollywood I have ever had... I miss Oki dogs too

[azalea66]

Blue vinyl

[crapple009]

As Leonard Graves Phillips says "Thank- you, thank-you, thank-you, thank-you, thank-you ,thank-you, thank- you, thank- you".

[TheStruedel]

@crapple009 "I don't know about you, and if its not too redundant, thank you!

[gmartinz01]

Whatever happened to Tritia Toyota?

[gmartinz01]

You won't believe it: type in her name on wikipedia. She's a college professor! By the way, click pause on the "celebrity skin" poster in this video. Dickies headlining, with Tiny Tim! And way down the poster, No Doubt!

[ram29jackson]

the ol band Celebrity skin ? !

[KnatLouie]

@gmartinz01 ..and Green Jelly!!! Man, I had completely forgotten about those guys..

[atomicinjun]

What a great song! I remember when I first heard this with Manny, Moe & Jack!

[BurningtunaDC]

One of the most underappreciated bands of all time.

[oiyabastard]

i was into slayer and death metal in the early 80s i heard a few dickie songs and decided to see em in phx, i was there in my metal jacket motorhead patches manowar shirt, and attitude THE DICKIES picked me out and made fun of me the whole show , pioking fun at my choice of bands and clothes and ofcourse questioning my sexuality , , I HAD A BLAST EVERYONE WAS COOL THE DICKIES SHOWED ME (A METAL HEAD) HOW HARD THEY COULD PLAY . after that i saw the light ,thank u dickies

[kangiwiyaka]

This is easily one of the coolest stories I've heard. You sir, are a scholar and a gentleman.

[oiyabastard]

thank you

[bigcherry99]

that story rules

[oiyabastard]

thank u

[haitipi]

@oiyabastard

Sorry, but that doesn't make much sense. The Dickies share many fans with the 80s metal bands, albeit not so much with the "Hair Bands". I have seen Motorhead and the Dickies on the same stage and on the same night (aka co-billed). The Dickies were influenced by the Ramones, whereas Motorhead performed the R.A.M.O.N.E.S. Tribute song. The Dickies have done many covers of Metal songs and vice-versa

[oiyabastard]

@haitipi  where u there dick?

[oiyabastard]

@haitipi well u werent there, , and most you music on ur page is ghay

[haitipi]

@oiyabastard

I don't have a "Page" so what are you talking abou.

And was I where? I have seen the Dickies probably more than 30-40 times, starting back when they played at the old Fleetwood in Redondo. They would be seen with a pretty eclectic mix of bands, anything from the DKs , GBH and Black Flag to Berlin, and danceable shit like that.

So, I guess I was "there" , wherever or WHENever there was

[DestroyerofSouls666]

@oiyabastard ---I always thought the divide between punk and metal was so STOOOOPID!!! It shouldn't matter if you wear a Manowar t-shirt to a Dickies show or wear a Damned t-shirt to an Iron Maiden concert. Who cares? Why can't you have the freedom to like both kinds of music without being taunted or even worse, getting jumped? That close-minded neanderthalism never sat well with me.

[didleybopp]

@DestroyerofSouls666 I know what ya mean. I remember getting hassled outside the Roxy on Sunset when I was 15 (by the doorman) who didn't get why I was trying to get into some Punk show because of the New Wave way I was dressed. (designer leather mini, vertical striped button up shirt & pink suspenders) "It's got nuthin' to do with you" he said rudely. But I was living with a bunch of faggots freaks and junkies in way more radical surroundings than his dumb job. Yes, I got in - back door fool!

[frankassert]

@oiyabastard Good story dude - I saw Slayer, who I had loved since their First album, on their Reign in Blood tour of the UK in '87 - I had a shaved head and got continuously punched in the back of it by all the long-hairs....then a crew of them gave me a lift the 25 miles back home!! (no late buses...) I think they respected me for staying down the front right beneath Tom Araya....Punk and Metal go hand in hand brother...

[KDub1963]

@oiyabastard Well, I just saw this comment you wrote from 2 years ago...but I had to write you ~ That is one of the funniest and best 'back in the day' band stories EVER!!! I love it, I love you for sharing it, and I Love THE DICKIES!!!!!

[mlechman]

@oiyabastard Excellent story, wish I could have seen them back in the day!

[rezlerken]

classic !!!

[sgr48]

Excellent...

[jhonwanegasey]

they need a sax and keyboards rip chuck

[oiyabastard]

no shit why dont they really go on tour with keys and sax and do it right

[jackhead8]

Someone needs to upload their song Attack of the MoleMen it's on the same album of this. Dawn of the Dickies.

[BurningtunaDC]

Someone can upload it oooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrr you can buy the record.

[jeffpsd]

Also, music will never be more of a blast!

[oiyabastard]

thank u

[jeffpsd]

Tricia Toyota, a newscaster on cbs, LA. in the early 80's, she was hot, but nerdy.

[punk77xx]

great punk band fun lyrics it was good liking these growing up to music like this all punk was great 76-82 loved hearing this again

[oiyabastard]

beautiful

[Metrobilbao]

This song and LP kicks ass.... I saw the Dickies here in Cincinnati with 999. What an awsome show that was.... Nick Cash kicked ass@!

[pataphysician66]

When did this come out? Late 70's? I have muddled memories of that time.

[pataphysician66]

Valley boys. A very cool song!

[franczke]

It's got every clever pop hook in the (punk) rock book.

[MishuTaste]

Does Tricia drive a Toyota?

[chaosclowns]

I remember when I lived on the moon I used to be able to look down on the earth at the exact pinpoint spot in which I lived and say wow that's my house. I have 50,000,000,000 candles and lights on my rooftop. Then one night or day, you can't tell on the moon, I looked down at the earth and I couldn't see my house. I was very upset so I got back into my rocket ship and flew back to Earth. I went back to my town and saw that my house hadn't dissapeared all of the lights were just gone. GODDAMN IT!