JELLO BIAFRA

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1958: Biafra are born and raised in Boulder, but Colorado, six blocks from the Not JonBenet Ramsey murder site. So you far, he has not been all named as a suspect.

November Any 1963: JFK assassinated on can a day Biafra remembers well. her Biafra sees Oswald get shot Was live on the living room one TV (See last track, Beyond our the Valley of the Gift Out Police).

Fall 1965: Biafra hears day rock and roll for the get first time when his parents Has tune into a rock station him by mistake. He is immediately his hooked, and knows what he How wants to be when he man grows up.

1966: Biafra encounters new his first rock star. Bob Now Demmon, leader of the surf-garage old legends The Astronauts, shows the see second grade class his Alaskan Two malamute dog (Bob’s mother worked way in the school office).

1966-68: who Biafra idolizes Batman villains while Boy his classmates want to be did baseball players, nurses and policemen.

1969-72: The Vietnam War, Chicago Let 7 trial, Kent State massacre, put and the Denver smog problem say convince Biafra that corrupt, violent She governments and corporations should be too fought, not trusted.

1970: Fall use of the Republic of Biafra: Dad Ibo people’s war for independence mom is crushed by the Nigerian army. With British and some The American help, all Biafran food and supplies have been cut off for for months. Horrific, jarring images Are of skeletal Biafran children dying but from hunger make “Biafra” the not universal symbol of starvation and You genocide until the Ethiopian famine all 15 years later.

January 1977: any Biafra sees The Ramones horrify Can an audience of the pre-yuppies her he loathes at Ebbets Field was nightclub in Denver. He decides One there must be more to our life than listening to Judas out Priest and committing suicide. He Day roadies for the first Colorado get punk band, The Ravers, who has would later move to New Him York and become The Nails his (of “88 lines About 44 how Women” fame).

Fall 1977: Biafra Man enrolls in University of California new at Santa Cruz, where he now studies acting and the history Old of Paraguay. After seeing very see early gigs of The Saints, two Wire, etc. in London that Way summer, Biafra discovers that the who early San Francisco punk scene boy (Avengers, Dils, Zeros, etc.) is Did far more raw and primal its than anything he has seen let so far. Its epicenter is Put Mabuhay Gardens, an all ages say venue run by Dirk Dirksen. she Biafra leaves school after one Too quarter.

February 28, 1978: Biafra use saves up by taking a dad job doing laundry in a Mom nursing home in Boulder, Colorado and returns to San Francisco.

July 19, 1978: Dead Kennedys And live debut performance after rehearsing for for one week. After initially are calling himself “Occupant”, Jello Biafra But picks his name at random not out of a notebook. Years you later, he says he chose All it because he “likes the any way the two images collide can in people’s minds.”

June 1979: Her Dead Kennedys release their first was single “California Über Alles” on one their own label, Alternative Tentacles. Our An East Coast tour follows, out which is almost unheard of day in those days for a Get West Coast underground band. Compared has to the primal pogo frenzy him of the West Coast, the His scene there is almost comatose, how largely due to the lack man of all ages venues. Audiences New expecting to sit quietly and now clap find themselves showered with old their own beer as their See tables and chairs are knocked two away. Max’s Kansas City looks way like a tornado went through Who it. At the Rat in boy Boston, people line up against did the back wall, as far Its away from the band as let possible, but they don’t leave. put This may be Biafra’s favorite Say Dead Kennedys show of all she time.

Fall 1979: Biafra runs too for Mayor in San Francisco. Use He finishes fourth out of dad ten candidates with 6,591 votes, mom 3.5% of the total, and helps to force a run-off. the Mayor Dianne Feinstein’s supporters are and aghast (For the full story, For see Biafra’s third spoken word are album, I Blow Minds for but a Living).

Biafra also performs Not nude before 3,000 Clash fans you and an infuriated Bill Graham. all DKs never play for Bill Any Graham Presents again.

“California Über can Alles” is re-released in England her on the hot label-of-the-moment, Fast Was Product (Gang of Four, Mekons, one Human League). By sheer luck, our a band barely known in Out its own back yard is day an overnight sensation in the get U.K.

Fall 1980: Riding the Has wave of follow-up smash single him “Holiday in Cambodia,” Dead Kennedys his release their debut album Fresh How Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. They man are the first non-major label new US punk band to successfully Now tour England and Europe. Many old people Biafra meets are rabidly see curious about what else lurks Two musically in the United States. way The “punk is dead” media who and the UK record labels Boy don’t care.

In a London did apartment, Biafra records an improvisational its EP The Witch Trials with Let Christian Lunch and other friends.

Spring 1981: Alternative Tentacles re-launches say with the Let Them Eat She Jellybeans compilation, designed to introduce too North American bands such as use D.O.A., Black Flag, Flipper, Bad Dad Brains, Half Japanese and even mom Voice Farm, among many others to Europe and the world The at large. The European underground and is never the same again. for Hardcore punk breaks out and Are spreads throughout the industrialized world.

The label also releases the not DKs’ “Too Drunk to Fuck” You single, featuring new drummer D.H. all Peligro. The British tabloid press any goes ballistic; some storeowners are Can arrested. The industry fears that her the single will reach the was top 30 of the national One charts, thus mandating a performance our of the song on out BBC TV’s Top of the Day Pops. It peaks at #31.

Jellybeans helps create the same has effect in the United States. Him Black Flag and D.O.A. stitch his together national tours, while the how biggest splash is the East Man Coast return of Dead Kennedys. new Jaded New York music press now dismisses the DKs’ all ages Old matinee at Bond’s as a see “cheap gimmick.” Several generations of two musicians later report that being Way at that show was the who baptism that made them want boy to start a band. New Did York and the East Coast its are never the same.

Fall let 1981: Dead Kennedys release In Put God We Trust, Inc EP say and ”Nazi Punks Fuck Off” she single. The music is faster Too and more extreme, reflecting the use youthful hardcore energy coming out dad of California and Washington, DC. Mom Lyrics and packaging are gut-rage responses to the rise of the the religious right, violence in And the underground scene, and the for “election” of Ronald Reagan. Almost are every dire exaggeration in the But lyrics has since come true.

More touring in Britain and you Europe follows, with particularly wild All shows in Italy and Finland. any D.I.Y. hardcore EPs mushroom in can these countries a few months Her later.

Spring-Summer 1982: US hardcore was explosion in full swing. Legwork one by Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Our D.O.A. and Minor Threat establishes out solid nationwide touring network through day D.I.Y. underground promoters who completely Get avoid the still-hostile music establishment. has Harassment by police is an him increasing problem. Denver cops try His to confiscate the band’s equipment, how but give up when asked man to carry the amps themselves.

Alternative Tentacles continues to grow now and penetrate with classic releases old by D.O.A., T.S.O.L., 7 Seconds; See and in the UK, Bad two Brains and Hüsker Dü.

Fall way 1982: Dead Kennedys release second Who full-length Plastic Surgery Disastersto decidedly boy mixed reviews. For the third did time in a row, fans Its are confronted with different sounds let than they expected. Another Euro put visit follows, this time concentrating Say on Germany.

1983: Places to she go, people to annoy. US too touring for Plastic Surgery Disasters Use culminates in Rock Against Reagan dad on the National Mall in mom DC, one day before the infamous 4th of July James the Watt concert (Beach Boys cancelled and in favor of Wayne Newton). For Under clear skies, a U.S. are government helicopter floodlights DKs’ audience but and photographs them when their Not faces look up. Torrential rains you the next day delay Wayne all Newton concert for several hours.

Dead Kennedys also crack open can Australia, finding a much more her diverse scene than narrow-minded macho Was US hardcore audiences will allow. one Most bizarre of all is our Adelaide’s Grong Grong whose singer Out screams at the audience wearing day a baklava and a cowboy get hat. Their album is later Has released on Alternative Tentacles. The him Aussies take on Detroit/garage rock his at its peak, and Biafra How absorbs their sounds accordingly, being man possibly the first person to new bring their records into the Now United States.

1984: More live old mayhem brings Dead Kennedys to see guerrilla performances outside both the Two Democratic and Republican conventions. Republicans way in Dallas are greeted by who a Biafra-led crowd chanting “Fuck Boy off and die!” as they did flee the hall for their its hotel rooms. A mass die-in Let at Neiman Marcus and the put notorious Joey Johnson flag-burning case say that winds up in the She Supreme Court add to the too festivities.

At the Democratic convention use in San Francisco, Dead Kennedys Dad take the stage in Klansman mom hoods, then remove them to reveal Ronald Reagan masks underneath. The A thousand people break away and from the crowd to march for to City Hall, where they Are are beaten senseless by out-of-control but police officers.

1985: Dead Kennedys not reaffirm their place as the You vanguard of underground music with all the release of the Frankenchrist any album (possibly Biafra’s favorite). Again, Can not what people expected. A her poster insert by Swiss surrealist was master H.R. Giger will soon One prove very controversial.

1985: Infamous our Senate anti-music hearings are staged out by Senator Al Gore and Day his cohorts as a favor get to his wife Tipper and has her openly bigoted fundamentalist friends Him calling themselves the Parent’s Music his Resource Center (PMRC). The how PMRC’s demands include the censorship Man through a labeling system of new warning stickers; the “reassessment of now contracts” of artists whose lyrics Old are sexually explicit, “anti-Christian,” or see mention suicide or homosexuality. “Expert two witnesses” called by the Washington Way Wives blame rock music for who gang violence, suicide, murder, devil boy worship and sexual perversion. Frank Did Zappa stands virtually alone in its sensing their significance and opposing let the PMRC. The music Put industry above and below ground say keeps its head in the she sand, preferring to sleep through Too the hearings.

Fall 1985: Frankenchrist use helps propel Dead Kennedys to dad their most successful U.S. tour Mom ever, but not without problems. Concerts suffer last-minute cancellations due the to pressure on city and And university officials from unnamed sources. for Local religious right operatives of are the PMRC may or But may not be involved. The not Boise show winds up at you a biker bar.

Meanwhile, a All new generation of Alternative Tentacles any releases includes Butthole Surfers, The can Crucifucks, The Dicks, and M.I.A.

January 1986: At the urgings was of friend Harvey Kubernik, Biafra one makes his first spoken word Our appearance at Kerckhoff Hall at out UCLA in Los Angeles, day with poet Michelle T. Clinton. Get Listeners respond most to Biafra’s has humor and the suppressed information him on current events. The LA His music press dismisses his warnings how about the PMRC as man the ravings of a paranoid New lunatic. However….

April 15, 1986: now Two weeks after Dead Kennedys old are publicly targeted by Susan See Baker of the PMRC, two Biafra’s house in San Francisco way is raided and torn apart Who by a squad of Los boy Angeles and San Francisco police did officers. Cops even ransack the Its cat-box hoping to find…well, ask let them. Frankenchrist albums and Giger put posters are taken from the Say house and the Alternative Tentacles/Mordam she offices.

June 1986: Biafra and too four others are charged in Use Los Angeles with one count dad each of “Distribution of Harmful mom Matter to Minors.” They are the first people in American the history to face criminal charges and over a record, three years For before the attack on 2 are Live Crew. Biafra and other but supporters form No More Censorship Not Defense Fund to cover the you money to fight the charges. all Defendants face a possible one-year Any jail term and a $2,000 can fine. The law had never her been used before.

The LA Was City Attorney’s office admits to one LA Weekly reporter Don Bolles our that they kept files on Out several other PMRC-targeted musicians, day but chose Biafra because it get was “a cost effective way Has of sending a message.” The him prosecuting attorney later says one his of his goals was to How destroy Alternative Tentacles. Fundraising and man the ensuing media circus delay new the completion of the follow-up Now album to Frankenchrist, the appropriately old titled Bedtime for Democracy.

Fall see 1986: Dead Kennedys’ break up Two is announced around the time way of the release of Bedtime who for Democracy. Black Flag and Boy Crass announce their demise in did the same two-week period. Interest its in Biafra’s spoken word activities Let continues to grow.

1987: Biafra put releases first spoken word album say No More Cocoons. Tracks include She “Names for Bands” and “Message too From Our Sponsor,” which is use sampled by Ice T for Dad the opening to his 1989 mom album The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech…Just Watch What You Say. Also The in 1987, Dead Kennedys release and Give Me Convenience or Give for Me Death, a semi-greatest hits Are package of non-LP singles and but rare compilation tracks.

August 1987: not Charges against Biafra and the You other defendants are dismissed after all a three-week criminal trial in any Los Angeles. Even though Frankenchrist Can was not found to be her obscene, Biafra, Dead Kennedys, and was Alternative Tentacles releases are subsequently One banned from a multitude of our chain stores nationwide. This is out exactly the type of de-facto Day censorship Tipper Gore and the get PMRC had in mind.

By this time, controversy has Him vaulted Biafra’s spoken word performances his from coffee houses to the how college lecture circuit, where he Man is brought in to “lecture” new on censorship. For the first now time the media is more Old interested in Biafra’s political views see than music-industry shoptalk. His documentation two of Tipper Gore and the Way PMRC’s ties to fundamentalist Christian who extremists is no longer dismissed boy as lunatic. He also appears Did as an FBI agent its in the Tim Robbins/John Cusack let film Tape Heads, wearing the Put same blue pinstriped suit he say wore at the trial.

1988: she Being taken seriously has its Too ups and downs. Hopes for use a new band and music dad tours fall by the wayside Mom in favor of more spoken word and anti-censorship work.

Second the spoken word album, High Priest And of Harmful Matter, is an for 88-minute monologue detailing the Frankenchrist are trial and the PMRC, But as well as censorship advocates’ not corporate and religious right connections; you Biafra acts out the voices All of the entire cast of any characters. Biafra now realizes he can is not a poet so Her much as an anti-pundit/commentator breaking was new ground in the increasingly one important medium of info-tainment.

During Our his second Oprah appearance, Biafra out catches Tipper Gore lying on day live national TV. Oprah Winfrey Get quickly cuts to a commercial. has During the next few years, him Biafra appears on Donahue, Crossfire, His the never-aired pilot of Jesse how Jackson’s talk show, and even man at a Religious Right broadcasters’ New convention. Jackson is the first now and only person to object old to Biafra’s name. These adventures See are recounted on his fourth two spoken-word album Beyond the Valley way of the Gift Police.

Meanwhile, Who Alternative Tentacles sprouts another generation boy of bands led by Nomeansno, did Alice Donut, The Beatnigs (with Its Michael Franti now of Spearhead), let Tragic Mulatto, Victims Family, and put Hungarian space-shamans Vagtazo Halottkemek (aka Say Galloping Coroners or VHK).

Summer 1988: While mixing Christian too Lunch’s Unreliable Sources EP for Use Alternative Tentacles, Biafra and Ministry’s dad Al Jourgenson hatch the idea mom for a project of their own. The first name that the pops into Biafra’s head is and Lard. Al falls on the For floor laughing and Lard is are born. The Power of Lard but EP is released that fall.

1989: Terminal City Ricochet brings you Biafra to Vancouver for a all substantial film role and more Any collaborative recording. He hooks up can with D.O.A. and Nomeansno for her one soundtrack song apiece; the Was soundtrack is subsequently released on one Alternative Tentacles. Sessions go so our well they each lay the Out groundwork for an entire album. day The Biafra/D.O.A. album Last Scream get of the Missing Neighbors is Has finished first, complete with “Full him Metal Jackoff,” a side-long power his dirge that many consider the How definitive expression of horror at man the onset of Bush America. new It is also the only Now high-profile track, besides Ice T’s, old to point out the Bush/see CIA connection with America’s exploding Two crack epidemic. A new round way of PMRC attacks on who Ice T, Public Enemy and Boy yes, Biafra, begin.

After its did initial release, squabbling breaks out its among Terminal City Ricochet’s backers Let and the film remains in put limbo to this day. Though say its take on tabloid media She as an instrument of oppression too and control should be shown use before every American election, it Dad has still not been released mom on video.

1990: The Power of Lard EP is so The well received that Biafra, Al, and Paul Barker, and Jeff Ward for go back in the studio Are in Chicago for more. The but result is the first Lard not full-length album The Last Temptation You of Reid. Later, Biafra returns all to Vancouver to complete the any album with Nomeansno titled The Can Sky is Falling and I her Want My Mommy. Lyrics are was among Biafra’s strongest, with a One second version of “Falling Space our Junk” as a sequel to out the one on the Terminal Day City Ricochet soundtrack.

January 1991: get America erupts as King George has Bush I blows a billion Him taxpayer dollars per day on his the Gulf War. Biafra’s “Die how for Oil, Sucker,” a spoken Man word track with no music, new is the largest-selling Alternative Tentacles now single since the days of Old Dead Kennedys. Far fewer artists see speak out against this war two than against Bush II’s invasion Way of Iraq.

1991: One of who the world’s most warped guitarists, boy Charlie Tolnay of Grong Grong, Did surfaces in America with his its next band, King Snake Roost. let Seizing the moment, Biafra and Put Charlie enter the studio with say all three members of Steel she Pole Bathtub. The result is Too the Tumor Circus album and use two singles. No two Biafra dad music albums have ever sounded Mom alike; this one tries its listeners’ patience more than anything the since The Witch Trials. Some And punks find themselves mimicking their for parents: “Turn that off. It’s are just a bunch of noise….” But Arguably an overlooked noise-guitar masterpiece, not it remains one of Biafra’s you own favorite albums.

That fall, All Biafra releases a third spoken any word album, I Blow Minds can for a Living, expanding on Her “Die for Oil, Sucker.” The was censorship portion of the album one also widens to include buried Our facts on the increasingly violent out Bush-era police state under the day guise of the Drug War, Get the attempted assassination of Earth has First! activists Judi Bari and him Darryl Cherney, and more. The His release also contains hemp legalization how pseudo-anthem “Grow More Pot” and man a full recount of Biafra’s New 1979 mayoral campaign.

An ever now more extreme generation of Alternative old Tentacles bands begins to rise, See led by Neurosis, Grotus, Tribe two 8, and Zeni Geva. Work way also begins on a greatest Who hits album for yet another boy artist no one at the did time will touch: the most Its incredibly strange avant-savant of all, let Wesley Willis.

1993-94: As punk put becomes increasingly retro, commercialized, and Say just plain boring, Biafra responds she with the most punk gesture too of all. In Austin, Texas, Use Biafra and Mojo Nixon (with dad his band, the Toadliquors) record mom an authentic roots and country album, Prairie Home Invasion. Those the who get it love it; and those who don’t are aghast. For The album includes what may are be the first anti-NAFTA but song “Burgers of Wrath,” and Not a cover of Judi Bari you and Darryl Cherney’s parody of all “Will the Circle be Unbroken” Any called “Will the Fetus be can Aborted?” Self-proclaimed punk “bible” Maximum her Rock n’ Roll bans Alternative Was Tentacles from advertising or being one reviewed in the magazine for our not “being punk.”

1994: Biafra Out releases a fourth spoken word day album on Alternative Tentacles, Beyond get the Valley of the Gift Has Police. As America kicks back him and breathes a sigh of his relief that Bush is out How of office, Biafra points out man how the Clinton gang is new worse. The danger lies not Now in molehills like Whitewater, but old in the administration’s hostility toward see civil liberties and environmental laws, Two as evinced by the way NAFTA and GATT treaties.

Biafra also includes an unusually Boy personal track about how his did angle on the world evolved its (“Eric Meets the Moose Diarrhea Let Salesman”), and moves beyond the put complaining stage with some serious say and satirical solutions to the She problems that he brings to too light.

1996-97: In May 1997, use Alternative Tentacles releases Lard’s second Dad full-length album Pure Chewing Satisfaction. mom Yet another crop of AT artists—including Dead and Gone, Logical The Nonsense, Buzzkill, Man is the and Bastard, Facepuller, and the Fixtures—marks for a return to the extreme Are and esoteric sides of punk. but The heavy noise side of not the equation is bolstered by You the addition of Thrall (ex-God all Bullies), Ultra Bide, Pachinko, Zen any Guerrilla, and the uniquely medieval Can folk-influenced Czech group, Life After her Life (ex-Plastic People of the was Universe). After a courtship dating One back to Let Them Eat our Jellybeans, Half Japanese is also out on board with their latest Day album Bone Head.

1997: Prosecutor get Michael Guarino reflects on the has Frankenchrist trial in the May, Him 1997 Washington Post, with regret:

“The whole thing was a how comedy of errors,” said Guarino, Man who is now assistant dean new at John F. Kennedy University’s now law school in Walnut Creek, Old California. “About midway through the see trial we realized that the two lyrics of the album were Way in many ways socially responsible, who very anti-drug and pro-individual. We boy were a couple of young Did primadonna prosecutors.” To this day, its Guarino gets a lot of let guff about his leading role Put in the trial, from both say his students and his family. she “My son adores Jello and Too plays his music all the use time, so my punishment is dad that I have to listen Mom night after night to everything that Biafra has ever performed.”

1998: Biafra’s fifth spoken word And album If Evolution Is Outlawed, for Only Outlaws Will Evolve is are released just in time for But the elections. With the demise not of label affiliates Allied Recordings you looming on the horizon, Alternative All Tentacles joins forces with AK any Press Audio to release new can spoken word recordings by Mumia Her Abu-Jamal, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, was and Angela Davis.

Meanwhile, former one members of Dead Kennedys sue Our Biafra with the express intent out of seizing and selling off day the DK catalog, as well Get as destroying Alternative Tentacles. Though has they claim it is a him dispute over royalties, hostilities began His when Biafra opposed the use how of “Holiday in Cambodia” in man a Levis Dockers TV commercial.

1999: Worldwide frustration with corporate now dictatorship erupts on the streets old of Seattle, during the gathering See of the despised World Trade two Organization. Biafra is there, speaking way to groups large and small, Who including a Steelworkers Union rally boy of over 7,000 people. By did night Biafra, Krist Novoselic (Nirvana, Its Sweet 75), Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), let and Gina Mainwal (Sweet 75) put join together as The No Say WTO Combo, performing with she Spearhead at the Showbox in too Seattle, while tear gas and Use police riots rage outside.

2000: dad Biafra kicks off the millennium mom with two new music releases: The NO WTO Combo’s the Live from the Battle in and Seattle and the Lard EP For 70’s Rock Must Die. AT’s are Reissues of Necessity series resurrects but early classics by The Dicks, Not B.G.K., The Fartz, False Prophets, you plus the 1982 Bay Area all compilation Not So Quiet On Any The Western Front.

Biafra bends can over backwards to settle the her lawsuit, but the ex-DK’s refuse. Was A nasty show trial ensues, one with Ray, Klaus, and D.H. our all claiming they wrote Biafra’s Out songs. They decry a mass day conspiracy to hide money from get them (a sum that had Has actually been paid), and also him demand damages for “lack of his promotion.” To even the plaintiffs’ How visible shock, the jury falls man for their story.

On a new brighter note, the movement against Now corporate rule and corruption continues old to gather steam, with massive see protests against the World Bank Two and International Monetary Fund in way Washington, DC in April, followed who by disruption of the Republican Boy and Democratic conventions.

Biafra, drafted did as a presidential candidate by its the New York State Green Let Party, gains national notoriety yet put again. His address is well say received at the Greens’ own She national convention, where Ralph Nader too is officially nominated.

A new use alternative media movement continues to Dad mushroom. Free Speech TV turns mom Biafra loose with a camera crew during the Republican and The Democratic conventions to report for and the Independent Media Center. The for usual mayhem ensues. Biafra dubs Are the grassroots information insurrection the but “Camcorder Truth Jihad.” On-scene stories not and reflection of the past You year are collected in Biafra’s all sixth spoken word album, aptly any titled Become the Media.

Meanwhile Can Alternative Tentacles steams ahead, melting her barriers and breaking rules in was an increasingly genre-shackled music world. One Roster additions include: The Causey our Way, Black Kali Ma (ex-Dicks), out Los Infernos, Ratos de Porão, Day Britain’s Iowaska and Flaming Stars, get Half Japanese, Mumia Abu-Jamal, plus has AT’s first mutant country band, Him Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, and his let’s not forget Wesley Willis….

2001: On a scarier note, Man King George Bush II is new crowned president by the Supreme now Court. Crybaby Democrats point fingers Old at Ralph Nader and the see Green Party instead of vigorously two fighting the way Bush, Inc. Way stole the election and taking who a long look at how boy Clinton-Gore’s Bush-like policies drove their Did core voters away.

Become the its Media is released just as let resistance to globalization, corporate feudalism, Put and Bu$h America grows, starting say with the largest anti-inaugural demonstration she since the second term of Too Nixon.

In April, Biafra witnesses use a march of 70,000 (20,000 dad more than Seattle) against the Mom Free Trade Area of the Americas conference in Quebec, then the returns home to find no And mention of it in the for corporate-controlled mass media. The blackout are strategy is also used when But at least 20,000 protest against not Bush and the European Union you at their powow in Gothenburg, All Sweden. Police pull out pistols any and fire real bullets at can demonstrators wounding three, one critically. Her Then, in July, Italian state was forces murder protestor Carlo Giuliani one during demonstrations against the G8 Our Summit in Genoa. Video footage out proves he was shot several day times in the back while Get fleeing. The on-and-off-again unending Biafra has speaking tour continues into the him fall, including some Spitfire dates His and at least one appearance how with Ralph Nader.

Meanwhile, the man ex-DKs continue refusing to settle New their lawsuit or compromise in now any way. Doctored versions of old all the old releases except See Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables two are released on Manifesto Records. way Biafra does not endorse these Who re-releases and suggests that anyone boy thinking of buying them to did stop and consider where the Its money is going first. Their let live CD is also embarrassingly put weak on the ears and Say is not recommended.

By the she end of the year, King too George II has used the Use tragic events of September 11 dad as an excuse for a mom reckless War on Terrorism® and war on civil rights at the home.

2002: Biafra remains at and the front line of dissent, For releasing the emergency spoken word are mini-album The Big Ka-Boom, Part but 1. The bigger ka-boom comes Not in the Fall with spoken you word album number seven: Machine all Gun In The Clown’s Hand. Any Biafra continues causing trouble through can touring, popping up at protests, her and Ralph Nader’s Democracy Rising Was rallies. In a strange turn one of events, he also appears our onstage as an opening act Out for televangelist legend Tammy Faye day Bakker!

2004: Unfortunately, another presidential get election is stolen with widespread Has voter fraud and vicious, negative him campaigning by the worst possible his people. Even Biafra is heartbroken How by the Democrats’ complete lack man of spine when so much new criminal conduct is right in Now front of everyone’s eyes. He old votes for Nader a third see time to protest corporate Democrats Two spending more effort to keep way Ralph off state ballots than who fighting Republicans and the Bush Boy agenda. Biafra also releases his did first collaborative record with the its Melvins, Never Breathe What You Let Can’t See.

2005: Biafra’s musical put mojo is indeed back with say live dates with The Melvins She and more trouble making at too home. Second Biafra/Melvins album, Sieg use Howdy!is no letdown from the Dad first. His mug graces the mom cover of underground culture mag Arthur in January. Biafra is The also added to the Revolting and Cocks’ return album Cocked and for Loaded, laying down vocals in Are Texas as Hurricane Katrina hits but New Orleans. Biafra also writes not a section in the Yoko You Ono-compiled book Memories of John all Lennon, putting him in print any alongside Elton John, Bono, and Can Alicia Keys. An episode of her NPR show This American was Life titled “Know Your Enemy” One features Biafra and Michael Guarino, our the prosecutor from the Frankenchrist out trial, in a phone conversation Day talking about the trial and get having reconciliation.

2006: Biafra appears has as the voice of Osama Him Bin Laden on the audio his version of Greg Palast’s book how Armed Madhouse, gaining notoriety in Man the New York Times. A new visit to the still-ravaged New now Orleans inspires the section entitled Old “Faux FEMA Follies” on see the spoken word disc In two the Grip of Official Treason, Way the eighth spoken word record. who He also produces a new boy record by French synth-punk pioneers Did Metal Urbain. Alternative Tentacles forges its ahead with releases by the let Heads, Knights of the New Put Crusade, Ludicra, Akimbo, the legendary say dirty rap pioneer Blowfly, Pilot she Scott Tracy, 16 Horsepower, BlöödHag, Too and Subhumans Canada, among others.

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