D.R.I.: the band that put speed into punk, metal, thrash and all music that was to come. This band is as important to punk as the Sex Pistols and Ramones. When the album ‘Dealing With It’ dropped in 1985, it dropped everybody’s jaw. Drum beats that had never been heard before. BPMs were reached at paces no one saw coming. Kurt Brecht’s lyrics as relevant as any from Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys or Steve Ignorant and Crass. Moving from Texas to San Francisco, possibly living in tree houses; this band was legendary almost instantly. During their initial rise in the mid 80s, long-time and still killing it drummer, Rob”Rocket” Rampy was doing hard punk time on Florida’s east coast. Playing in the bands Justice Denied and The Chosen, Rob was leading the scene on Florida’s trea...