Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra
Jello Biafrais the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist. 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. Although now focused primarily on spoken word, he has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth17 June 1958
CityBoulder, CO
CountryUnited States of America
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.
We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.
Yes, I think it's a freedom of expression issue. My feeling is the best way to counter bad speech is with more speech.
Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The New World Order has a dying empire odor and changing the channel ain't going to make this go away.
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
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.
Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.
I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!
Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.
If you love god, burn a church.
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
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.
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.
I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.