Before they’d ever been signed, D Gen played sell-out concerts at such seminal New York City venues as CBGB and the Continental. Gear was trashed, bottles broken, authorities called, venues shut down, record execs turned away... but the lucky few hundred who were at these gigs were instant converts. A "scene" was born.

Lorraine Ali described them in Rolling Stone in 1999 as "New York punk that takes the best of the ’70s Street-rat sneers, tight black pants and artfully messed-up hairdos: D Generation are the stuff that popped-up 70s punk was made of…. tailor-made for grimy pinball arcades and Brand X beer-drinking binges."