UNTAMED YOUTH

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After 10 years of beating out some of the best land-locked surf music this nation has ever ignored, The UNTAMED YOUTH seem ready for their legendary status to take hold. With the release of their 6 th long player, "YOUTH RUNS WILD!" on Norton Records, Bass player Mace might finally be able to walk down the street, being treated as his title demands, as KING OF MEN! So with far too much time on my hands, I decided to ask singer Deke Dickerson some of the questions their adoring public has longed to hear answers to. Below are the results of our E-mailed corespondence. what exactly does it take to be a suave sophisticated international playboy? A certain twinkle in your eye and $30 sewn into the lining of your jacket. davie allan sings backup on your new record "youth runs wild". how did he handle mace's status as king of men? Poor Ol' Davie just didn't "get" Mace at all. I think he's had enough of trying to understand the "underground" music scene by hanging out with the Phantom Surfers!!! all your album covers seem very colorful, like a box of candy, what's your favorite candy? Unfortunately I don't like colored candy (except for M&M's). I only like things with CHOCOLATE AND PEANUT butter, god's greatest combination. Current fave is the new Reese's "Sticks" and the Peanut Butter Goo Goo Cluster. you do alot of songs about beer. up here in the northwest we do alot of micro-brewing. I hear you don't cotton to that. are you some kind o' savage or something? Microbrews have the potential to be something cool but they wound up being some kind of sissiefied yuppie expensive "experience." So we say: PABST BLUE RIBBON! You can buy a 12 pack for less than two "microbrews." Just like Little Caesars pizza, we prefer QUANTITY over QUALITY... a few years back you moved to california, for what reason I'm not gonna ask, and now you seem to do all your touring near or east of the mississippi river (completely leaving out the great state of oregon) is there some kind of master plan behind this? Yeah, none of your cruddy clubs would book us! All THREE times we played Garageshock we tried to get gigs in Portland to no avail. So we wound up doing Garageshock and Bob's Java Jive in Tacoma Washington which was better anyway. Now, we go where the cash finds us--which is usually Bloomington, Illinois or Charleston, West Virginia! I'm looking at the tracks that make up your new disc "youth runs wild"(plus 2 soon to be released singles) and notice a glaring omission, your cover of the remains "don't look back". when are you gonna make my lil' fan-boy dreams come true and lay that one on wax? We do love that song but the originals cannot be topped (I'm talking about the Remains original and the even better cover by the Rising Storm on their "Calm before" album). When an original cannot be topped, there is no use recording it, which is why I have never recorded a Link Wray song either. At some point we'd like to do a "Live from Bob's Java Jive" EP or LP (like the world needs another live Untamed Youth record after the Live In Las Vegas disc!), and we may do "Don't Look Back" on that one. MAYBE.... Looks like I'll have to wait a little while longer. Go check out any of The Youth's releases, there ain't been a bum cut yet. -Jhon Placebo Torque Radio Home Page