Manifest Destiny (album)
Overview
Manifest Destiny is the second album by The Dictators
and their first after switching to the Asylum
label. Trouser Press
praised the album as "another helping of brilliant Shernoff
originals". http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=dictators
The Dictators
The Dictators are an American punk rock band formed in New York City in 1973. Critic John Dougan said that they were "one of the finest and most influential proto-punk bands to walk the earth." The Dictators are represented in the "Punk Wing" of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, Ohio...
and their first after switching to the Asylum
Asylum Records
Asylum Records is an American record label founded in 1971 by David Geffen, and partner Elliot Roberts, who had previously worked as agents at the William Morris Agency. Founded specifically to provide a record contract for Jackson Browne, the label signed Tom Waits, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell...
label. Trouser Press
Trouser Press
Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow Who fan Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" ...
praised the album as "another helping of brilliant Shernoff
Andy Shernoff
Andy Shernoff is a musician, songwriter, record producer and oenophile.He is a founding member of The Dictators, one of the original New York punk bands, in which he wrote nearly all of the songs, played bass guitar and keyboards, and sang backing vocals and occasional leads...
originals". http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=dictators
Quotations
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do." -wikipedia:Dorothea Dix|Dorothea Dix