The American band D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) was formed in Houston, Texas, in 1981 as a punk / hardcore band. With each release they moved more and more in the direction of thrash metal. The group started practicing at Kurt and Eric's parents home, where the brothers Lived amongst the "Madman" (their father). They practiced a few nights a week around 5:00pm, just as the Madman would be on his way home from a hard day at work. He would open his front door only to be blasted with 120db of the band's horrendous attempt to make music. The Madman would then pound on their jam room door until he was let in so that in turn, he could throw them out of his house calling them such things as "... you bunch of dirty rotten imbeciles". This is how D.R.I. got their name.
In 1983 the band moved to San Francisco where they Lived in their van and soon ended up on the "Rock Agains Reagan" tour with the Dead Kennedy's. After touring in the summer of 1984, Eric Brecht got married and left the band. In the year 2000, D.R.I. Founder/Guitarist, Spike Cassidy, loses Rotten Records to D.R.I. Manager, Ron Peterson in a partnership backstabbing, and a long court battle is sure to commence. D.R.I. fired manager Ron Peterson, took its catalog of CD's, and left Rotten Records in search of a new record label. The band is said to be entertaining a few good offers.

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