Kinky Sex Makes World Go 'Round (DKs)

(Tiago_R_Rebeiro) Dead Kennedys "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round"

"We've Got a Bigger Problem Now"

Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys

Once upon a time a singer named Jello Biafra had a lot of good ideas for a California punk band called the Dead Kennedys (a name indicating the decline of the USA). He made albums with them and contributed to other releases like Wargasm (1982, Pax Records, PAX 4, LP) with the American War Machine song "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round." The DKs released many great songs with many great ideas but became so popular with non-punks that punks started to criticize them for getting less funny (brilliantly sarcastic or ironic) and more serious (preachy rather than clever) as time went on. The band disbanded and reformed without Jello, who released a spoken word album, No More Cocoons, with the genius "Message From Our Sponsors."

The Strange History of the DKs

(The Punk Rock MBA, Finn McKenty) Strange History of Dead Kennedys

"Message From Our Sponsor"

Better obey or you will be shot

LYRICS: We interrupt this program with a special bulletin! America is now under martial law. All constitutional rights have been suspended. Stay in your homes.

Do not attempt to contact loved ones, insurance agents, or attorneys. Shut up! Do not attempt to think or depression may occur. Stay in your homes. Curfew is at 7:00 p.m. sharp after work.

Anyone caught outside the gates of their subdivision sectors after curfew will be shot. Remain calm. Do not panic. Your neighborhood watch officer will be by to collect urine samples in the morning. Anyone caught interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot.

The original album version

(Jello Biafra) Message From Our Sponsor: UPDATED FOR 2020

Dick Nixon's Sec'y of State Gen. Haig

Houses will be inspected for trace elements at noon. Anyone who fails to display the required embossed black velvet Mexican painting of Alexander Haig on their living room wall will be shot.

Cameras and surveillance equipment will be posted on all lampposts and streetlights.

Anyone failing to attend required worship services on Sunday will be promptly arrested and dispatched to a reeducation resort. Stay in your homes. Remain calm. The Number 1 enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual will.

Sports make living exciting and worthwhile.

All sports broadcasts will proceed as normal. No more than two people may gather anywhere without permission. Use only the drugs prescribed by your boss or supervisor. Shut up! Be happy. Obey all orders without question. The comfort you′ve demanded is now mandatory. Be happy. At last, everything is done for you. Source

"California Über Alles"

Dead Kennedys "California Uber Alles" (official music video)

What Would Jello Do? (Dead Kennedys)

(Telerama) Jello Biafra (AlternativeTentacles.com), singer (original frontman) for the Dead Kennedys: "In some ways, maybe punk should die...that way it can be reborn" [and become something influential and important again]. Once a great independent thinker, what has happened now?

• Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys, ABCLibrarySales; Telerama; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Punk Rock 'chella: No Values concert 2024

WARNING: Absolute filth, garbage, this should be illegal! This seems to be some band Tees OL, Tee Sol, singing some kind of, can't understand a word the fat blond man (political candidate, father, and author Jack Grisham) is saying about being in high school in the Southbay looking for love, but look at that crowd kept far from the stage for only $200 a ticket. ;)

Our dream has finally come true. See, I told you if we kept praying and spiking our hair.

Mother, the original Misfits are back to get everyone to sing along (Concert Archives.org)

NO VALUES | summer old skool punk rock mega jamboree, June 8th, 2024

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Mike Muir and Suicidal Tendencies sing their MTV hit "Institutionalized"

Oh, hells yeah, I'll be there wearing a sexy outfit!

The Warped Tour is back at the Pomona Fairplex -- only now it's the once in a lifetime "NO VALUES" concert (so named after an old Black Flag song).

It's a Goldenvoice production (Coachella, Stagecoach, etc.), conveniently located in Los Angeles County, out by the fairgrounds, right next to Orange County, just off of the largest freeway in the country (the Interstate 10). It close enough for everyone in the IE and San Berdoo, too. The rest of the world is out of luck.

Decline of Western Civilization, 1

Imagine a show so big that it reunites the original Misfits (not just Danzig), Social Distortion. Iggy Pop (he's still among the living?), Bad Religion, Sublime [no Rome], FEAR [w/ Lee Ving], The Dillinger Escape Plan, Power Trip, The Damned, Suicidal Tendencies, The Vandals, Black Flag, L7, TSOL, [what no Germs or Circle Jerks?], Steve Ignorant of Crass, The Jesus Lizard, The Exploited, The Dead Milkmen, The Adicts, Agent Orange, Adolescents, Cro-Mags...

Hillbillies can't play piano! Where would they practice, the trailer park?

Nu-metal gets carried away with mega-fest in Vegas heat: SOAD, Korn...

Not just punk but ska and other genres, too. The lineup continues with Fishbone, The Aquabats, The Selecter, The Untouchables, The Skeletones, [what, no Save Ferris?], Ceremony, Fidlar, Hepcat, Joyce Manor, MS Paint, Scowl, Shattered Faith, Soul Glo, The Bronx, The Dead, The Lawrence Arms, The Mourning Noise, Turnstile, Viagra Boys [or is that the Cialis Girls?], and a bunch of other vital bands from way back when.

(Punk Rock MBA) Punk show etiquette with dad Finn Mckenty, MBA

• No Values Fest 2024, California: where to buy tickets, best prices, lineup (NY Post)

Who needs Barbie? Punky rules!

Anyone who thought going to Las Vegas to see the Sick New World Fest has got to think this is probably a good idea, too. It's bound not to have all the technical issues that event suffered from. And best of all the Dead Kennedy's original singer, Jello Biafra, will have a DJ set [of all Alternative Tentacles bands?] So expect some snark but precious little "California Uber Alles." It's not cheap, so plan ahead. More

The name of the show, we would guess, comes from an old Black Flag song:

LA hardcore punk band Black Flag performs their anti-hit "No Values"

• NO VALUES | June 8, 2024; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Woke? What Would Jesus Do? (TBB)

Lord Jello, show us the way.

The acronym WWJD can mean many things. In Berkeley, it stands for, "What would Jello do?" Jello is Jello Biafra, the brilliant if slightly preachy former lead singer of the patriotic punk rock band the Dead Kennedys and founder of Alternative Tentacles Records.

(It is more patriotic to critique and try to improve one's country than to mindlessly go along with anything it says or does in the name of capitalism, assassinating presidents, hegemony, imperialism, racism, sexism, war-profiteering, and other misdeeds).

"Welcome to 1984" (DKs)

Some people think the "J" should really only refer to Jesus, but that is contradicted by the fact that those who say they talk to Jesus are deemed "good," whereas those who say that Jesus talks to them are deemed "nuts."

It is, in fact, not about talking but calling to mind a role model. What would the Buddha do? What would an arhat (an enlightened person) do? What would a saint do? What would kind Kwan Yin or rebel Mother Mary do? (Both are goddesses of compassion in the world).

If we call to mind our best example of a human person or spiritual being, then that can help guide our own decision-making when it comes to sorting out tough dilemmas or forks in the road of life.

Is trans different from non-binary? D'uh! (lol)

Forget the sandal. It's the gourd!

Some think Jesus is best, so to be able to stay on his team, they imagine he would be very "woke." Other followers hate this idea. As with most things, Christians are divided. It's like that scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian. The Messiah figure runs because so many followers need something from Him.

He takes off so quickly that he drops a sandal and his water gourd. Followers pick up these items, reasoning that the sacred object must have been left behind by the Savior as a guide symbolic of his presence.

Is the gourd the water of life, or is the sandal expressive of the path we must follow? Gourd, sandal? Sandal, gourd? And then they begin killing each other for the crime of worshiping the wrong symbol.

Woke Jesus

(The Babylon Bee) Want proof that Jesus was a woke socialist? Look no further than these classic quotes straight from the Bible. Get your copy of "Woke Jesus" today and defend your faith against progressive ideology: lucasmiles.org/bee. #comedy #bible #woke #jesus #christian #methodist #unitedmethodist

WARNING: Foul language and not nice things about Jesus and God. For

God so ordained that Nicholas Bowling get a lot of view but have

a hard time doing so at the Louisville Gay Pride Festival, Pt. 2

• The Babylon Bee, May 6, 2024; Nicholas Bowling; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Punk rock w/ Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys; Finn McKenty (Punk Rock MBA), 12/10/23; Jello Biafra (alternativetentacles.com); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jello, founder and former frontman of the Dead Kennedys, has new material coming out soon: Patrik Fitzgerald/Jello Biafra with Motorpyscho - "Punch" – AlternativeTentacles

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The Strange History of the Dead Kennedys

(The Punk Rock MBA) From their early years to Plastic Surgery Disasters, Holiday in Cambodia, and Frankenchrist to the government trying to stop them by bankrupting them with a frivolous but very expensive obscenity lawsuit, the Dead Kennedys breakup and messy reunion without frontman and major songwriter Jello Biafra, it's been quite a history. Playlist

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(Kozlaranton) Live at Altavoz Fest 2016: Jello Biafra sings Dead Kennedys material including the first hit he wrote with them, "California über alles." He won't perform with the original members because they are sellouts out for a paycheck now, and he still has principles (and a record label called Alternative Tentacles), so the band tours with other singers and Jello does his own thing. WWJD? What would Jello do? Whatever he wants, so long as it is in keeping with the principles that have guided his whole life, like not participating in events that promote beer and other BS. It's ain't easy being cheesy, but it ain't that hard either. Jello isn't cheesy. He's principled, and that's not a popular thing to be. Hooray, Jello! The DKs were once one of the fastest bands, and they were always the most principled with their Bay Area politics and California style. Other bands and then fans got to hate them when they got a bit preachy (rather than the satirical and sarcastic bunch they started as), but that's how it goes. They influenced the direction of hardcore and speed metal and ultimately grindcore and other subgenres of the hardest music, which is why a lot of musicians wear DK tees.

• 00:0 - California über alles
• 04:32 - F* Donald Trump
• (prelude to) Nazi Punks F*ck Off
• 05:40 - Holiday in Cambodia

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Death of Dead Kennedys' drummer (video)

D.H. Peligro; Polyphonic; The Adventures of TNT (reaction); Raphael Alves; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

D.H. Peligro's heartbreaking last moments before death | He knew what was going to happen: CHANGE

(DIGITAL MEDIA) Oct. 29, 2022. What would Jello do? He (and the other white members of the Dead Kennedys) would hire a black drummer in a racist punk rock scene. Who could handle the job for a band that played faster than most others at the time?

Darren Henley was born on July 9, 1959 and died on Oct. 28, 2022. He was better known by his punk rock stage name, D.H. Peligro (Spanish for "Danger").

He was an American punk rock musician, the drummer for the Dead Kennedys along with a brief stint as the drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Drummer D.H. Peligro died at his home in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. Police report that he died from trauma to the head caused by a fall.

He joined the Dead Kennedys in February of 1981 and appeared on the EP In God We Trust, released in Dec. of 1981. He would also record on the studio albums Plastic Surgery Disaster, Frankenchrist, and Bedtime for Democracy. He also appeared on the singles/rarities collection, Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

DK guitarist East Bay Ray, who performed with Peligro, posted on Facebook following the death. “I am heartbroken. D.H. Peligro passed away in his Los Angeles home yesterday, Oct 28th. He died from trauma to his head from a slip and fall. Arrangements are pending will be announced in the coming days. We were musical brothers. Thank you for your thoughts and words of comfort.”

The Dead Kennedys broke up in Dec. of 1986, and Peligro moved on to join the Red Hot Chili Peppers for a short stint, replacing Jack Irons in 1988. He helped write some songs on the band’s album Mother’s Milk but did not perform on the album.

The Dead Kennedys reunited in the 2000s, and Peligro stayed with the band through several changes in front men (after the band split from Jello Biafra). He took a hiatus in 2008 but rejoined in 2009.

Peligro played with several other bands in the punk scene and had his own solo career as a front man, releasing three albums. Of those, the most notable was Sum of Our Surroundings, which was voted Rock Album of the Year by the American Independent Music Awards.

Thoughts go out to family, friends, and fans.  Rest in power.

Jesus, WWJD? (video)

Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys and Alternative Tentacles Records; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

WWJD? Let's ask him. Jello, what would you do? The Dead Kennedys' former front man has a lot of opinions on the world, as the principal at Alternative Tentacles Records. The rest of the band has to go its own way touring and trying to relive the glory/milk the discography to make a living. Jello is a regular Jimmy Dore. This is Episode or Part 74 of an ongoing series.

"Riot"
Rioting, the unbeatable high
Adrenaline shoots your nerves to the sky
Everyone knows this town is gonna blow
And it's all gonna blow right now

Now you can smash all the windows that you want
All you really need are some friends and a rock
Throwing a brick never felt so damn good
Smash more glass
Scream with a laugh
And wallow with the crowds
Watch them kicking people's ass

But you get to the place
Where the real slavedrivers live
It's walled off by the riot squad
Aiming guns right at your head
So you turn right around
And play right into their hands
And set your own neighborhood
Burning to the ground instead

[Chorus] Riot, the unbeatable high
Riot, shoots your nerves to the sky
Riot, playing into their hands
Tomorrow you're homeless
Tonight it's a blast

Get your kicks in quick
They're callin' the National Guard
Now could be your only chance
To torch a police car

Climb the roof, kick the siren in
And jump and yelp for joy
Quickly, dive back in the crowd
Slip away, now don't get caught

Let's loot the spiffy hi-fi store
Grab as much as you can hold
Pray your full arms don't fall off
Here comes the owner with a gun

[Chorus]

The barricades spring up from nowhere
Cops in helmets line the lines
Shotguns prod into your bellies
The trigger fingers want an excuse
Now

The raging mob has lost its nerve
There's more of us but who goes first
No one dares to cross the line
The cops know that they've won

It's all over but not quite
The pigs have just begun to fight
They club your heads, kick your teeth
Police can riot all that they please

[Chorus] [Outro]
Tomorrow you're homeless
Tonight it's a blast...

Jello: The Dead Kennedys were right (video)

Jello Biafra; Dead Kennedys; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

Lead singer Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys

WWJD? What would Jello do? Jello Biafra is a genius, but too principled for most music lovers. The band the Dead Kennedys could have been big if they had agreed to change their name or comprised in many other ways.

Eventually, in the end, the other members had to make money from their hit songs.

Jello said no to selling out. He had his own label, Alternative Tentacles, to pay the bills. So they got someone else to stand in on tour (as the audience did most of the singing), and they hit the road.

My t-shirt says something to believe in.

The DKs foresaw many things that are happening now. They happened before but never so blatantly. Once in L.A. before a Democratic convention, they played a free concert in a downtown parking lot. The police raided it, shooting people with deadly projectiles (rubber bullets and beanbag rounds) as they ran away terrified.

It was mayhem started by the LAPD, as usual, overreacting as a "show of force." The mainstream media didn't report that side of riots because who dares question police authority in favor of punks or peaceful demonstrators? Certainly not the LA Times or local news stations. Therefore, officers knew they could get away with it -- the same way

(DKs) "California Uber Alles" (Pt. 1) from Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

• they get away with rape
• racist enforcement of select laws
• plant evidence
• beat black motorists (Rodney King and many before him)
• lie on the witness stand
• ignore counter-evidence.

(Alternative Tentacles) "Pandemic"? What would Jello do now? Let's ask

He's watching by cell phone.

It's not easy policing such a big city with such a small force, with a police to citizen ratio much smaller than a comparable city like New York. So city officials let them get away with it through the administrations of many police chiefs, paying out tens of millions in settlements to avoid lawsuits in the most egregious cases of crimes committed under color of law.

Now the City of Los Angeles has the lockdown it always dreamed of. This looks like the "power trip" our police force was always on. People aren't afraid of "the enemy" enough. Pres. Trump is doing an asinine job as commander and chief. Youthful partygoers, yearning for spring break, keep flaunting this epidemic scare. It's as if they intuit that it's BS and we're not being told what's really going on. So it looks like Martial Law is on the horizon under one pretense or another. "The people demand it."

(Dead Kennedys) "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" (which is "California Uber Alles Part 2")

Mayor Garcetti: Love LA. Obey me. I'm leader.

Mayor Garcetti almost announced martial law on Sunday night. Mainstream media news reporters taunt him to impose fines at scofflaws, arrest kids at the beach, punish them, scare some sense into them, call them "selfish" for infecting no one by not staying six feet from each other. He'll crackdown soon.

Real rebellion is from the inside out.

It's the carrot and the stick. He's been promising carrots, so the dissatisfied need a stick. When there are more tests forced on everyone, who are as of today required to show government ID to be tested, the jump in reported cases will scare the living heck out of the population.

They'll demand citizens like themselves be punished for disobeying what is not an infection but an illness brought about by microwave radiation. See Dr. Thomas Cowan's 10 minute talk at the March 2020 Health and Human Rights Summit in Arizona (freedomsphoenix.com).

Margaret Reagan-Thatcher goes to heaven

Wisdom Quarterly; Billy Bragg (DemocracyNow.org); Letters & Politics

Pres. Obama comments on jobs report: "She's no Kamala Harris" (ocregister.com).

Iron Lady Baroness Thatcher, England's longest-running PM, dead at 87 (watdoday.com.au).

Influential British rocker and activist Billy Bragg (beginning with the punk rock band Riff Raff) made the song "It Says Here," a critique of politics and tabloid newspapers that still rings true. Bragg composed music for lyrics written by Woody Guthrie and performed many of the songs alongside the album’s other main contributor, Wilco. His passion for speaking out against injustice and fighting for many social causes. In the 1980s, he called for support for the 1984 strike by the National Union of Mineworkers, one of the most significant chapters in Britain’s trade union history. It was ultimately defeated under the watch of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Bragg went on to organize for the defeat of Thatcher and her Conservative government. His long history of activism  continues with "Never Buy The Sun," about the phone-hacking scandal engulfing the Rupert Murdoch media empire.

The Iron Lady's leaden policies
Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

Iron Lady in tank and with Reagan (NYDN)

What ruined the American economy? According to progressive talk radio host Thom Hartmann, if the answer were boiled down to one thing, it is Reagonomics. The parallel economic path for England was the destructive policies enacted by Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who passed away today of a stroke. To the extent that Mikhail Gorbachev opened up the USSR to overt capitalist influences, he completed the trifecta of three great superpowers brought down by the same policies we are taught were their ideas. It was, in fact, the bankers, military, and industrialists telling them what policies to enact, what regulations  to subvert, and what wars to pursue. Where we are today has more to do with these three infamous politicians than even the Bushs' (all three of them G.H.W., G.W., and B.S.O.) White House.

Comical Grrrl Power? (BW)

Christian heaven in space is a great place. On one's death bed one need only utter Milli regretti and poof! There one is, forever and ever. Of course, this may just be a fundamentalist misunderstanding or Catholic (universalist) fabrication. It may not be what Jesus told anyone, but his words are in others' hands. And those others want to communicate a different message, one wholly devoted to this world: Make us right, do what should not be done, but there's forgiveness at the end of the day, so don't worry. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." This disgruntled-Christian sentiment has become the de facto Christian message. It's not enough to say milli regretti; more hocus pocus is involved. One has to mean it, and pray/beg for forgiveness from the space-father, and go through the son (although the Eastern Orthodox tradition says one can only go through the father with no proxies not even the son). Fortunately, Thatcher was Anglican, the English church not bound to Rome (the Holy Roman Empire's religious arm) and its dictates.

Who was she? The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

Letters and Politics, April 8, 2013 (Berkeley, KPFA FM, 10:00 am)

The [Robber] Baroness (couriermail.com.au)

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