Dead Kennedys

The Dead Kennedys is an American group of music , formed in 1978 with San Francisco, California, which remained one of the symbols of the Punk hardcore.

Members of the group

Current formation

Starting formation

Other members

  • Carlos Cadona
  • Torch Cruz

History

The group is formed following a classified written by East Bay Ray which Jello Biafra answered. They were quickly joined by the bass player Klaus Flouride, the Ted beater and a second guitarist who became famous under the name of 6025. This last left the group as of March 1979 whereas Ted was replaced at the end of 1981 by D.H Peligro.

In 1979, Jello Biafra declares candidate at the post of mayor of San Francisco. Its candidature, which resembles at the beginning with a joke, is finally taken for serious by a considerable number voters, since Biafra finishes fourth on ten candidates.

The same year, Dead Kennedys form their own label - Alternative Tentacles - which will publish the majority of the discs of the group. The first individual ones follow: “California Über Ales” 1979 - a load forces against Jerry Brown, then governor of California - “Holiday in Cambodia” in June 1980, “Kill The Poor” and “Too Drunk to Fuck”. It is it should be noted that the label will publish the second individual one of another fundamental group of this period: Bad Brains .

In 1981, Ted leaves the group and is replaced by D.H. Peligro (Darren Henley)

In November 1985, the exit of the Frankenchrist album starts a scandal: inside the album, appears a reproduction in the form of poster of a work of the Swiss painter HR Giger entitled Landscape XX (known also under the title of “Landscape Penis”), which is worth with the group a lawsuit for pornography, and a police raid which leaves the apartment of Jello Biafra in a sorry state. The prosecutor Michael Guarino, who wished to make of this lawsuit an example, will entrust later to regret this episode. The business ended besides in a withdrawal of case, after several months of procedure.

After the publication of “Give Me Convenience gold Give Me Death”, the group separates.

A reformation of the group took place towards 2002, primarily moved by commercial interests, but Biafra as Alternative Tentacles are in lawsuit against this group which has of “Dead Kennedys” only the name. The group will once again reform in 2006 without Jello Biafra but with Jeff Penalty with the song.

Discography

Albums

  • 1980 : Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (LP)

  • 1981: In God We Trust Inc. (EP)
  • 1982: Plastic Surgery Disasters (LP)
  • 1985: Frankenchrist (LP)
  • 1986: Bedtime for Democracy (LP)
  • 1987: Give Me Convenience gold Give Me Death (compilation)
  • 2001: Mutiny One the Bay (live)
  • 2004: Live At The Deaf Club (live)

Individual

  • 1979 : California Über Ales

  • 1980: Holiday in Cambodia
  • 1980: Kill The Poor/In-Sight
  • 1981: Too Drunk to Fuck/The Prey
  • 1982: Nazi Punks Fuck Off! /Moral Majority
  • 1982: Bleed for Me/Life Sentence
  • 1982: Halloween/Saturday Night Holocaust

Bonds

  • Site of the reformation of Dead Kennedys
  • Site of Alternative Tentacles

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