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"California Über Alles" is the debut single by American punk rock band Dead Kennedys. It was the group's first recording and was released in June 1979 on the Optional Music label, with "The Man with the Dogs" appearing as its B-side .
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death was the last Dead Kennedys album that Biafra approved the production of, and their last album released through Alternative Tentacles. The album includes "Pull My Strings", recorded live, which they played only once on March 25, 1980 at the Bay Area Music Awards ("BAMMIES") in front of music industry bigwigs ...
Dead Kennedys were formed in June 1978 in San Francisco, California, when East Bay Ray (Raymond Pepperell) advertised for bandmates in the newspaper The Recycler. [3] The original band lineup consisted of East Bay Ray on lead guitar, Klaus Flouride (Geoffrey Lyall) on bass, Jello Biafra (Eric Reed Boucher) on vocals, Ted (Bruce Slesinger) on drums and 6025 (Carlos Cadona) on rhythm guitar.
East Bay Ray was involved in all the Dead Kennedys' studio recordings and is credited for mixing and producing the band's first single, "California Uber Alles"/"Man with the Dogs", the band's first LP Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables with Oliver Dicicco, the EP In God We Trust, Inc. and he mixed "Holiday in Cambodia"/"Police Truck".
He is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. [1] Initially active from 1979 to 1986, Dead Kennedys were known for rapid-fire music topped with Biafra's sardonic lyrics and biting social commentary, delivered in his "unique quiver of a voice". [2]
Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label established in 1979 by Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra and guitarist East Bay Ray in San Francisco, California, with the intention to release the Dead Kennedys' self-produced single "California Über Alles". After realizing the potential for an independent label, they released records for ...
In God We Trust, Inc. is an EP by hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys and the first of the group's releases with drummer D. H. Peligro.The record is a screed against topics ranging from organized religion and Neo-Nazis, to the pesticide Kepone and the government indifference that worsened the effects of the Minamata disaster.
"California über alles" 1979 — — 4 Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables "Holiday in Cambodia" 1980 40 — 2 "Kill the Poor" — 49 1 "Police Truck" — — — Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death "Too Drunk to Fuck" 1981 9 36 1 "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" — — 11 In God We Trust, Inc. "Bleed for Me" 1982 40 — 3 Plastic Surgery Disasters ...