Tony Kinman RIP

We just had the Kinman brothers from Carlsbad featured here a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, Tony Kinman passed away from cancer on Friday – here are two articles:

http://www.laweekly.com/music/rip-tony-kinman-of-the-dils-9431385
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/may/04/rip-tony-kinman-dils/

Born in 1956, Tony grew up with his family in Carlsbad. He and Chip formed the Dils in 1977, becoming one of San Diego’s first working punk bands, playing many of the city’s first punk shows, alongside the Zeros, the Hitmakers, the Penetrators, and others. Locals still talk about the near riots at venues like the Adams Avenue Theater whenever bands like the Zeros and the Dils were paired.

“Our first show was at a pizza parlor in Del Mar,” Chip recalled for the Reader in 2016. “Our posters had Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. They pulled the plug on us. We didn’t even get through one song. But we kind of expected that. We played the gazebo at Holiday Park [in Carlsbad] one afternoon knowing we were going to get shut down.” The anti-establishment theme continued with singles like “I Hate the Rich” b/w “You’re Not Blank” on the What? Records label.