Re: The Battle of the Dead Kennedys

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:36:12 -0600
Newsgroups: alt.fan.jello-biafra,alt.music.dead-kennedys,alt.punk
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:05:46 +0000, Dan Clore wrote:
> Dan Clore wrote:
>>
>> From the Moscow Times:
>>
>> Punk in Trouble: The Battle of the Dead Kennedys
>> By Sergey Chernov
>
> I'm just curious:
>
>> It has long been acknowledged that Biafra wrote the majority
>> of the band's songs, and he is officially recorded as author
>> or co-author of nearly all of them.
>>
>> But, though Biafra wrote the songs, East Bay Ray claims to
>> be "the intellectual of the band."
>>
>> "He [Biafra] was the one who could write the good lyric to
>> express the idea, but the ideas ... didn't originate with
>> him," East Bay Ray said. "The lyrics were his, mostly, not
>> all of them, but the good percentage of them."
>
> Does anyone find this credible *at all*? Just looking at
> Biafra's work with other bands and spoken word material--and
> the total lack of anything comparable from East Bay
> Ray--would seem to me to put the lie to this claim.
> (Incidentally, I'm not nearly as critical of the current DKs
> than many. I don't think that all of their solo material
> stank--a couple of Klaus's solo albums were pretty good,
> actually--and I can't find it in me to feel critical of
> Brandon for taking an opportunity like this one.)
Yeah, that sounds a little shaky to me as well. I dunno, Jello's voice is
to me 1/2 the reason I love the Dead Kennedys. I've heard a bit of a live
show (someone put it on a disc as filler for me) with Cruz and while the
band sounds together, it totally misses the boat for me. I think Ray's a
better guitar player now than he was back in the day, though. But all in
all, not something I would pay to see.
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