The Dirty Pictures

dirty pictures formed in Prague in the autumn of 1992 just as the shimmering ghost city was awakening from its Iron Curtain coma, hungry for intimate contact with the world and ready to mosh. The dp’s featured Pavel Spacek (a.k.a. “The Walking Fly”) on drums, local TV star Zdenek Marek on bass and vocalist/guitarist, Huckleberry Dirt. The American led/Czech driven band finished 2nd out of more than 500 bands at the first-ever Marlboro Rock-In in 1993. Their debut album, “Escape from Sloppy Lake”, spawned 3 alternative radio hits, and the video for “Custom Auto” (track 3 on “Escape”) was named “Best of 1994” on MTV Europe. The band toured Europe twice in support of the 12-song punkified masterpiece. In April of 1994, dirty pictures staged “Rock for Refugees” - a 28-band benefit concert for displaced people from the former Yugoslavia. The glorious, day-long event’s grand finale came when dirty pictures fan Joe Strummer jumped onstage to join the dp’s for a blistering set of Clash songs that the punk icon had not played in more than ten years. The event led to the dp’s first and only tour of England. Musical virtuoso Mattias Fröm replaced Marek on bass shortly before the band dissolved in 1995.