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| Written by Reverend Greed | |||
| Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:54 | |||
Boy, that's really hard, because my tastes are really diverse and I've always had encyclopedic knowledge about music I like. - Jello Biafra Don't hate the media, become the media. - Jello Biafra Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. - Jello Biafra For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. - Jello Biafra I did it a number of different ways and learned something from that session in that one way to do vocals - if you think you're done and there's one extra track, do the absolutely most obscenely bad version you can possibly come up with and some of it actually winds up being used. - Jello Biafra I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. - Jello Biafra I got into '60s punk all because of one night in 1965, when I was seven years old. - Jello Biafra I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know? - Jello Biafra I realized later on that a lot of times I'd go back to Colorado to hide from all the mayhem in San Francisco so I could get songs written. - Jello Biafra I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters. - Jello Biafra I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation. - Jello Biafra If you love god, burn a church. - Jello Biafra It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. - Jello Biafra Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys. - Jello Biafra Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it. - Jello Biafra Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible. - Jello Biafra So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all. - Jello Biafra 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 The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. - Jello Biafra The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies. - Jello Biafra The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important. - Jello Biafra Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath. - Jello Biafra Then the term punk surfaced again when describing like the Live at CBGB's album. - Jello Biafra Then, The Ramones and The Sex Pistols started using the term punk and it exploded. - Jello Biafra 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 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 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 This was get on stage, play 30 minutes of your own stuff, blow the doors out, leave and the next artist came on. - Jello Biafra We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out. - Jello Biafra Well, I've had pieces of music in my head since I was a small child, some of which wound up as Dead Kennedys' songs. - Jello Biafra Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies. - Jello Biafra What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half. - Jello Biafra What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for. - Jello Biafra When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous. - Jello Biafra You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. - Jello Biafra
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