(Che Underground prodigy-turned-full-grown rocker Dylan Rogers tells the San Diego story behind the music.)
Unlike most people on this blog, I will be starting from the end, not the beginning.
Sonic Love Affair recorded “The Dirty Kids” summer of 2006 at Wally Sound in Oakland, California. This is one of the 12 songs recorded for a second album, which was not released. Soon after the band split.
Rob Alper (guitar); Curtis Franklin (guitar); Jerry Fiore (drums); Rudge (bass); Dylan Rogers (vocals). Produced by Wally.
I had written these lyrics about eight years earlier in my apartment in Brooklyn, New York, only to toss them aside for years.
I had been thinking a lot about my childhood in the neighborhood of Ocean Beach. I was not just thinking about myself but all the kids who grew up in O.B. Kids who led a fast-paced life at very young ages, dealing with adult situations and too young to cope.