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The Dils were an American punk rock band of the late 1970s, originally from
Carlsbad, California, and fronted by brothers Chip Kinman and Tony Kinman.
They appeared as the second act in the "battle of the bands" sequence in
Cheech and Chong's film, "Up In Smoke", where they can be heard performing
"You're Not Blank" (which ends with drummer Buddy Hate complaining that he
could not hear anything without stage monitors).
History Soon after forming in 1977 the band relocated to San Francisco,
where they would have a significant influence on that city's embryonic punk
scene (bassist Tony Kinman would play very briefly with San Francisco punk
band The Avengers during 1977), and then Los Angeles, becoming one of the
major bands in the early Los Angeles punk scene too. They were known for
their conspicuous radical left politics, and for a strong melodic sense
that earned them the nickname "punk rock Everly Brothers".
Their debut single was "I Hate The Ri
