D.I. “Team Goon” 1987. Triple X Records. Originally released as an eponymously titled EP in 1983 on Revenge Records, Team Goon includes three additional tracks including a cover of Gary Glitter’s “Rock and Roll Part II.” Side A and Side B are identical, which is a bit weird, but since one side clocks in at less than 25 minutes I guess it works. Probably D.I.’s best-known song, “Richard Hung Himself” appears on this EP; its performance in the 1983 film Suburbia was a defining moment in SoCal 80′s punk.

I saw D.I. play live in late ‘87, which I blogged about here, and that too was a defining moment for my 80′s punk experience. D.I. has had a fluid line-up throughout their history and on that 1987 tour, Hedge (also in Doggy Style who opened for D.I.) had just replaced Alfie Agnew (Adolescents) on bass; Alfie took over guitar from departing guitarist Rikk Agnew (Adolescents, Social Distortion, Christian Death). For some reason this copy of Team Goon does not have the Devo cover “Uncontrollable Urge” on which Hedge played bass guitar, so this is either an earlier or later pressing of the EP.  Anyway, after that show in ‘87 and at the party mentioned in that other blog post, I spent a fair bit of the evening hanging out with Hedge: lots of trash talk, I think maybe he wanted to hook up (that certainly didn’t happen) and we ended up trading bracelets. One little wrist-size piece of punk memorabilia.