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Jello Biafra

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Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.


— Jello Biafra


#creating #energetic #hopefully #important #music

That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.


— Jello Biafra


#crash #find #hope #i #over

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.


— Jello Biafra


#down #ethics #grass #grass roots #had

The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.


— Jello Biafra


#i #important #later #pretty

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.


— Jello Biafra


#angeles #arrangements #away #band #baxter

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.


— Jello Biafra


#band #disguise #even #fact #flyers

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.


— Jello Biafra


#disease #home #i #long #never

We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.


— Jello Biafra


#money #out #put #wanted

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.


— Jello Biafra


#being #ever #feel #frustrated #fulfilled

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.


— Jello Biafra


#dead #doing #kennedys #marketing #spirit






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Did you know about Jello Biafra?

The attack derailed Biafra's plans for both a Canadian spoken-word tour and an accompanying album and the production of Pure Chewing Satisfaction was halted. "


Mayoral campaign

In the autumn of 1979 Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco using the Jell-O ad campaign catchphrase "There's always room for Jello" as his campaign slogan. Along with other prominent West Coast musicians he formed the short-lived band the No WTO Combo to help promote the movement's cause.

Biafra is known to use absurdist media tactics in the leftist tradition of the Yippies to highlight issues of civil rights and social justice. After he left the Dead Kennedys he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray.

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