PHILADELPHIA WEEKLYUMM ... DROPDead City Psychosby Doug Wallen:Halloween would be a better time for Philly’s Dead City Psychos to return from the grave, but who are we to look a gift corpse in the mouth? Five years after retiring their third incarnation, the forbidding punks are giving it one more go with a reunion of the original members. While the generation gap may not exactly be on their side, plenty of people still remember the Dead City Psychos or have stumbled upon either their lasting reputation or more recent bands populated by DCP alumni.Lead guitarist Joey Tweets has kept himself busy with solo work, singer/guitarist Eric Dead slung his ax in the late Union Dead, bassist Ben Nam is doing time in the Mongols, and drummer Rob Windfelder fronts Live Not on Evil and co-runs Crash Bang Boom, the punk-fueled retail icon once known as Zipperhead. Meanwhile, onetime drummer Earl-y Gates plays in Ray Gradys, who have the privilege of opening for the reborn DCP.Very much alive from the late ’90s until 2003, the Dead City Psychos rocketed along with a snotty, morbid take on punk rock that positioned them somewhere between the checkered likes of the Misfits, Social Distortion and the Dead Boys. A little glam and a little psychobilly informed them as well, whether they were screaming about junkies and societal ills or throwing around F-bombs and paying tribute to horror movies. Tim Burton-worthy makeup also played into their onstage persona, as did tattoos, booze, cigarettes and other time-honored rock cliches.Only two albums came out of the Dead City Psychos—a self-titled debut and the follow-up Babylon—and it’s possible that their reunion show could get lost in the shuffle with so many young, great bands crowding into Philly’s music scene these days. But something tells us that won’t be the case.
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