Guitarists Cory Plump and George Dishner thread those modulations through delay for something subtle and sunless, downplaying Dinos' affinity for blow-out-your-earholes recordings that battered fans in later years. It steps off the fuzz pedals and finds a razor sharpness in clean tones. Dinos died out, but the evolution of homegrown punk continued its course.Īs with Cretaceous predators, Spray Paint updates its antecedent – smaller, more nimble. Its three members spun out of When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, the local noise-rock double everything that once broke Beerland on a bimonthly basis. Darwinism at work.Īustin post-punk trio Spray Paint also descends from dinosaurs, literally. Streamline, agile, and believed to have had feathers, they were the antithesis of an enormous fern-eater like the brontosaurus, carnivorous beasts (Greek for 'terrible claw') engineered by evolution into lightning-quick lizards with a natural killer instinct. It didn't simply spring out of the earth one day. Think about the deinonychus (dy-NON-i-kus), ancestor to the velociraptors of Jurassic Park and one of the most important discoveries of dinosaur paleontology. Mod Squad: (l-r) Plump, Dishner, Stephenson (Photo by John Anderson)
