Dez Cadena

Dez Cadena was the 3rd in a type of 4 singers who fronted Dark Flag. The kid of renowned manufacturer and A&R guy Ozzie Cadena (who caused a variety of jazz performers in the 1940s through 1960s — Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, etc.), Dez was initially friends using the associates of Dark Flag before learning to be a member himself. Despite having no prior experience performing, the music group convinced Cadena to provide it a go, and in 1980, he became the full-time alternative to the departed Ron Reyes. It had been the Cadena-led edition of Dark Flag that could attempt the group’s initial tour beyond California, including East Coastline dates that produced fans from the prefers of Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins. Despite just appearing as Dark Flag’s vocalist on a set of singles (1981’s “Louie Louie” and “6-PACK” — put together on 1983’s The First Four Years), it had been Cadena’s hoarse, screamed performing style that could shortly become copied by countless hardcore rings who made an appearance in Dark Flag’s wake. With Cadena attempting to concentrate more on electric guitar playing than performing, he handed the mic to Rollins in past due 1981 and transferred over to tempo guitar, playing over the group’s debut full-length, Broken. The quintet edition of Dark Flag lasted to get a year . 5, with Cadena’s last performance using the music group becoming in the garage area of Suicidal Tendencies’ Mike Muir during Apr 1983. Right now, Cadena got grown his locks shoulder size and, fittingly, shaped a far more hard rock and roll (namely, Dark Sabbath) sounding group, DC3. A trio of studio room releases adopted — 1985’s This is actually the Fantasy, plus 1986’s You’re Just as Blind as YOUR BRAIN COULD BE and THE NICE Hex — and a live compilation, 1989’s Vida. The ’90s noticed Cadena, along with previous Minutemen/fIREHOSE drummer George Hurley and bassist Expenses Bowman, type a short-lived group called after DC3’s last launch. From 1999 through 2000, Cadena was the guitarist for previous Weapons N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan’s music group, Packed, but no produces surfaced. The first 21st century noticed Cadena reappear once again, this time using the Misfits on tour and on the albums Slashes through the Crypt (2001), including a remake of Dark Flag’s “GO ABOVE,” and Task 1950 (2003).