#The jonbenet devil music vol 1 full#
(For the full story, see Biafra's third spoken word album, I Blow Minds for a Living.)īiafra also performs nude before 3000 Clash fans and an infuriated Bill Graham. Mayor Dianne Feinstein's supporters are aghast. He finishes fourth out of ten candidates with 6,591 votes, 3 1/2% of the total helping force a run-off. This may be Biafra's favorite Dead Kennedys show of all time.įall 1979 Biafra runs for mayor of San Francisco. At the Rat in Boston, MA, people line up as far away from the band as they can against the back wall but don't leave. Max's Kansas City looks like a tornado went through it. Audiences expecting to sit quietly and clap find themselves showered with their own beer as their tables and chairs are knocked away. Compared to the primal pogo frenzy of the West Coast, the scene there is almost comatose, largely due to the lack of all ages venues. An East Coast tour follows, almost unheard of in those days for a west coast underground band. June 1979 Dead Kennedys release first single, California Uber Alles on their own label, Alternative Tentacles. Years later, he says he chose it because he "likes the way the two images collide in people's minds." After first calling himself "Occupant," Jello Biafra picks his name at random out of a notebook. JDead Kennedys live debut performance after rehearsing for one week. Biafra leaves school after one quarter.įebruBiafra returns to San Francisco after saving money doing laundry in a nursing home in Boulder, Colorado. Its epicenter is Mabuhay Gardens, an all ages venue run by Dirk Dirksen. After seeing very early gigs of The Saints and Wire, among others in London that summer, Biafra discovers that the early San Francisco punk scene (Avengers, Dils, Zeros, etc.) is far more raw and primal than anything he has seen so far. He roadies for the first Colorado punk band, The Ravers, who would later move to New York and become The Nails (of "88 lines About 44 Women" fame).įall, 1977 Biafra enrolls in University of California at Santa Cruz, where he studies acting and the history of Paraguay. He decides there must be more to life than listening to Judas Priest and committing suicide. January, 1977 Biafra sees the Ramones horrify an audience of the pre-yuppies he loathes at Ebbets Field night club in Denver. Horrific, jarring images of skeletal Biafran children dying from hunger make "Biafra" the universal symbol of starvation and genocide until the Ethiopian famine 15 years later. With British and some American help, all Biafran food supplies had been cut off for months. Ibo people's war for independence is crushed by the Nigerian army.
(Bob's mother worked in the school office)ġ966-68 Biafra idolizes Batman villains while his classmates want to be baseball players, nurses and policemen.ġ969-72 The Vietnam war, Chicago 7 trial, Kent State massacre and the Denver smog problem convince Biafra that corrupt, violent governments and corporations should be fought, not trusted.ġ970 Fall of the Republic of Biafra. Bob Demmon, leader of the surf-garage legends The Astronauts, shows the second grade class his Alaskan malamute dog. He is immediately hooked, and knows what he wants to be when he grows up.ġ966 Biafra encounters his first rock star. (See last track, "Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police")įall 1965 Biafra hears rock and roll for the first time when his parents tune in a rock station by mistake. Biafra sees Oswald get shot live on the living room TV. November 1963 JFK assassinated on a day Biafra remembers well. So far, he has not been named as a suspect.
Before I present the music, here is a little background.ġ958 Biafra born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, six blocks from the JonBenet Ramsey murder site.