Flash Flood & The Dikes
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Genre: Country / Psychedelic
Location PORTLAND, Oregon, US
Profile Views: 9532
Last Login: 12/5/2011
Member Since 11/25/2008
Record Label unsigned
Type of Label Major
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Waves of regret, tides of joy. At its best, country music should make you want to leave the bar and go home to tell your wife and kids you promise to stop drinking and be a better man. Then make you forget that promise as you order another whiskey. Then cry as you feel bad and call her on the pay phone. Then start a fight with the guy who also wants to use the phone. Then smother him in man hugs. Flash Flood & The Dikes will make you want to do these things. God bless ’em for performing Friday happy hours at Slabtown. [Portland Tribune] .. .. Flash Flood and the Dikes have finally crawled out from their dank Northeast basement to submit happy-hour crowds to their off-kilter take on traditional country music. But don't go expecting sappy renditions of Hank Williams and Willie Nelson songs. These are the types of weirdoes who scour dusty bins for Texas Jim Lewis and Joaquin Murphey records—not particularly surprising considering a couple members have sordid pasts making primitive and disjointed sounds in bands like Monoshock and Albuquerque, New Mexico's the Drags. I have it on good authority that the lawlessness and debauchery described in some of the songs could even pass as autobiographical. Simply witness for yourself who empties more pitchers of beer that night—the audience or the Dikes. [Portland Mercury] -
Members
Flash Flood - Guitar and Yelping; Dix E. Dike - Drums and Sweetness; Shakey Dike - Fiddle, Serrated Edges, Harmonious Interjections; Norm "de Guerre" Dike - Bass, Grunts; Ba-rock Dike - Pedal Steel, restraint -
Influences
Buck Owens, George Jones, Gram Parsons, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, The Fugs, The Carter Family, Lee Hazlewood, Woody Guthrie, Louvin Brothers, Webb Pierce, Tom T. Hall, Everly Brothers, Neil Young, Michael Hurley, Fred Neil, Porter Wagoner, Gene Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash, Skip Spence, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Carter Family, Lefty Frizell, Red Simpson, Dave Dudley, Richard & Mimi Farina, Holy Modal Rounders, Wynn Stewart, Eric Andersen, Dock Boggs, John Philipps, Kevin Ayers, Willie Nelson, Leonard Cohen, Waylon Jennings, Roger Miller, Ennio Morricone, Sam Peckinpah, Warren Oates, etc. -
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Outta sight. Outta mind! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
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5 Songs | Nov 25, 2008
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Waves of regret, tides of joy. At its best, country music should make you want to leave the bar and go home to tell your wife and kids you promise to stop drinking and be a better man. Then make you forget that promise as you order another whiskey. Then cry as you feel bad and call her on the pay phone. Then start a fight with the guy who also wants to use the phone. Then smother him in man hugs. Flash Flood & The Dikes will make you want to do these things. God bless ’em for performing Friday happy hours at Slabtown. [Portland Tribune]Flash Flood and the Dikes have finally crawled out from their dank Northeast basement to submit happy-hour crowds to their off-kilter take on traditional country music. But don't go expecting sappy renditions of Hank Williams and Willie Nelson songs. These are the types of weirdoes who scour dusty bins for Texas Jim Lewis and Joaquin Murphey records—not particularly surprising considering a couple members have sordid pasts making primitive and disjointed sounds in bands like Monoshock and Albuquerque, New Mexico's the Drags. I have it on good authority that the lawlessness and debauchery described in some of the songs could even pass as autobiographical. Simply witness for yourself who empties more pitchers of beer that night—the audience or the Dikes. [Portland Mercury]
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i saw doug sahm last night. he told me to tell you to "keep the dream alive" and then he burped. he still uses myspace, too.
Manhana les traigo un pequenho ejercito, creo. Pa' que no se olviden de donde vinieron:
Every time it's better than the original! How do you do it, Flash Flood? Is it the Dikes?
i hope you'll soon be adding Loving Her Was Greasier Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again to your repertoire.
Who's that Unknown that sits in on 'Milwaukie' live? Some pipes on the three of you!
Y'all do come highly recommended! We've got a few shows in March that we need to fill out, so when we have the details we'll definitely letcha know! Thanks!
Thanks’ for being a friend of Buck Owens!