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- F*** you Exploited.... Best show ever.
The Dead Kennedys merged revolutionary politics with hardcore punk music and, in the process, became one of the defining hardcore bands. Often, they were more notable for their politics than their music, but that was part of their impact. The Kennedys were more inspired by British punk and the fiery, revolutionary-implied politics of the Sex Pistols than the artier tendencies of New York punk rockers. Under the direction of lead vocalist Jello Biafra, the Dead Kennedys became the most political and -- to the eyes of many observers, including Christians and right-wing politicians -- the most dangerous band in hardcore. By the mid-'80s, the band had become notorious enough to open themselves up to a prosecution for obscenity (concerning a poster inserted into their 1985 Frankenchrist album), and the ensuing court battle sped the band toward a breakup, but they left behind a legacy that influenced countless punk bands that followed. The Dead Kennedys formed in 1978 in San Francisco when Biafra (vocals; born Eric Boucher) and bassist Klaus Flouride responded to a magazine ad placed by guitarist East Bay Ray. Drummer Ted (born Bruce Slesinger) joined soon after and the band played locally for the first two years of their career, occasionally venturing outside the Bay Area. Within a year, the band released their first independent single, "California Über Alles," an attack on the then-current governor, Jerry Brown. It was followed shortly afterward by their second single, "Holiday in Cambodia." In 1979, Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco; he finished fourth. By this time, the band had become quite popular in both the American and British underground. Finally, in 1980, the band released their debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, on IRS Records. After its release, Ted left the band; he was replaced by drummer Darren H. Peligro.
Following the release of Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, the Dead Kennedys formed their own independent record label, Alternative Tentacles, in 1981. The first release on the label was the Kennedys' EP, In God We Trust. That same year, the single "Too Drunk to Fuck" scraped the bottom of Britain's pop Top 40, despite being banned from airplay. In 1982, the Kennedys released their second full-length album, Plastic Surgery Disasters. After its release, the band took a hiatus, during which bandmembers -- most notably Klaus Flouride -- performed with various side projects. During that time, Alternative Tentacles began to establish itself as a major force in the American underground.
The Dead Kennedys returned in 1985 with Frankenchrist, which was the record that earned the band its greatest notoriety. Included with the album was a poster of the Swiss artist H.R. Giger's Landscape #XX, a garish illustration of penises and anuses. A year after the release of the album, the Kennedys and Alternative Tentacles were prosecuted under revised Californian anti-obscenity laws for distributing pornography to minors because of the poster. For the next two years, the band was embroiled in a bitter legal battle, during which Biafra emerged as one of the most articulate advocates for free speech and vocal opponents of the PMRC. In the summer of 1987, the case ended with a hung jury and was dismissed.
Although the Dead Kennedys emerged victorious from the court battle, they didn't remain a band for much longer. Just before the prosecution began in 1986, the band released Bedtime for Democracy, which turned out to be their last official album. After the case was settled, the Kennedys split, releasing the posthumous compilation Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death in 1987. Biafra embarked on a solo career, releasing musical and spoken-word recordings sporadically over the next couple decades. Flouride returned to his fledgling solo career, releasing two albums in the late '80s and early '90s. The DVD format of Dmpo's On Broadway, the Dead Kennedys' June 1984 performance marking the closing of San Francisco's avant-garde theater and nightclub, was released in May 2000. - เพลง
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1:03 Police Truck
3:40 Take This Job and Shove It
5:17 Chemical Warfare
8:38 MTV Get Off the Air
11:19 Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
12:07 Nazi Punks Fuck Off
14:24 Moral Majority
20:10 I Fought the Law
In my opinion the Greatest punk Rock Band ever! Best Vocals, great drummer, edgy and smart message! Darby Crash was a bit of a clumsy oaf! Great lyrics, but he couldn't sing them😂
Children , I want you see the the most underrated , hardest working drummer ever DHP
Musicians always rated him...
I been sayin
@@Slammerworm1 Not enough and not enough
I know. I was watching some DK videos with my friend. And we were watching the video of nazi punks in the studio. And we were just talking about how much of a task that must of been to be in there recording these songs over and over again. And not to mention playing shows under hot lights every night. Yet he never misses a beat.
Stop-on-a-dime precision.
I was in the audience at this show. Great to see it again!
+Eric Alan Isaacson me too New Years eve bounced by Suicidal Skins
As was I: the Dead Kennedys were awesome.
good for you sir!
me 2 the olympic was fucking beautiful I broke my hand twice my arm once my leg once , and my head at least 5 times it was perfect!
Same here
Goddammit. Soooo fucking much energy. DH Peligro is FIRE. Rest in peace, sir. East Bay and Klaus are killing it. Jello is in his finest form, vocal and physical. Fantastic performances all around!
East Bay Ray was one of the most original guitarists in punk
Yes but dont under rate Billy Zoom from X.
East Bay Ray's guitar tone was great on every Dead Kennedy albums but his riffs on some songs were not as original as you might believe. You can hear guitar riffs from Link Wray songs played a big part on more than a few of East Bay Ray's Dead Kennedys riffs the only difference between the 2 was the guitar tone.
@@jeffreyedwards5029 That's what's up!
Was he?
Ray is one of the most underrated guitar players in history.
Agreed! he's my favorite punk guitarist, with Steve Jones at a close second
Agreed with what you say about Ray.
How about Ex-Con Ron of MDC?
The Methatones definitley great a strange mix of surfrock psychedellia. Anyway a great original
Really? Don't get me wrong, I love the records, but live he's pretty shit.
yes surely one of the greatest guitarists in the history of punk no doubt.
I was 14 when this show happened and nearly went, but my mom would not let me. A couple years ago, I met Jello at a lecture type thing and chatted with him. He said, "Your mom was right. That was a rough show!" Notice how there is not a chasm between the audience and the band. Jello despised rough bouncers who pounded on the kids. The guys are shoving people off the stage, but not that forcefully. Different times, folks.
i saw Gwar at 16 and barely survived, i definitely would've got killed at this show too lol
thanks for mentioning the intent of the security was to keep things rolling with minimal interference, it truly was a different time, I saw the Butthole Surfers, Bad Brains, Scratch Acid in Philly in the 80s, violence was not in the air
I was 4 years old when this show happened and my mom didn't let me go either.
Saw the Dk's many times in many venues; east coast, west coast Denver and Boulder Co. Saw many other punk bands from same era. ST's, Bad Brains, Circle jerks, Fear, Agent orange, Black Flag, X, Etc. Dk's were by far the originals, best show, pit, and hard core show ever and this is no disrespect to any of the others. Dk,s were the show we waited for. Jello was and will always be the MAN!!!
Me too I was at this show and a lot of other DK gigs in SF. Saw most of those other bands u mentioned too and agree
DK’s were amazing !
aside from the importance of the DKs ...man, just listen to this band here...tight as hell..East Bay Ray...the riffs...Klaus...Daryl ...next level talent hardcore punk..musicians ..
well said
"MTV get off the air" lol. DK got their wish. Good show. Sounds awesome 30 plus year later. High School revisited. :)
Jello's voice and crazy stage persona backed by a solid band...the DKs were my favorite punk rock band back then and they still are.
I feel the same...
also:
u.s. maple
suburban lawns
...some of my other favs with great front people
I wasn't there.
Doerk S. Me too
I was 2 years old.
I wish
i didnt exist
I wasn't there either.... Best gig I never went to.
Jello's weird pantomine act gets weirder and weirder -- I can never figure out what he is doing half the time.
all this time I had no idea that their version of I Fought the Law was in response to Dan White getting acquitted for killing Harvey Milk. So THAT'S what that twinkie line meant.
@ 9:30 "Don't touch that" Smack! Hahahahaha!
skellywag rock don't forget the smack
I was there as well
Some jerk broke into our car and stole my leather jacket...sniff
Probably one of those lousy LMP guys I keep hearing about
....it was ugly anyways
@@stickymeat88 no and LMP was definitely not lousy back then besides it was most likely FFF or suicidals, suicidals were at the olympic and palladium a lot LMP was mostly at the whiskey
Dead Kennedy's will always be my favorite Punk band.
I was 14 and wanted desperately to attend this show. My mom would not let me. Seeing it now with my 48-year-old eyes, it's possible she made the right decision.
ONLY POSSERS DIE.
No way... you missed a hell of a show. I think Jello's an asshole now, but there were no better shows really than DK,
No way! Haha, you and I are the same age and had the same experience - my mom blocked me from seeing DK, Black Flag and Bad Brains in their last swings through the country in the mid-80s - it killed me. I realized I needed to take matters into my own hands, and at least got to see some great shows like DRI on the Dealing With It tour, Dag Nasty with Dave Smalley singing, several Circle Jerks shows and Descendents on the Enjoy! tour. If I had only been born a few years earlier, mom wouldn't have been a problem. I have some young boys coming up and will make sure they get to see the shows they want (but I'll probably go with them until they are 18).
@@felipeantoniohernandez6495 psst.. it's Poseurs.
Elmo Blatch your a bore
The masses of bodies move like an ocean of chaos.
The live recording sounds move through my ears like a waterfall.
The concept and message flows like the blood in my veins.
At 11:20, I was at first thinking "they aren't going to a parody of Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin" and then they did, and I was laughing. XD
As a fan of both bands I approve of it.
Was at that show at 13yrs old. Great memories. Those Olympic auditorium shows were the best. See Greg up there as a bouncer, worked over at middle earth records in downey. Shout out to you.
I was 19 and in the crowd. This gig was during the 1984 Olympics DK's headlined This show had bands from all over the world. The Addicts played that night along with the Toy Dolls.. It was a F$##% crazy night. 5-7 mosh pits going off. I was with about 12 friends... what great memories..
I was there and also 19! So much fun and always a little dangerous. We used to score party supply's in the parking lot under the freeway....I got busy with 2 random punk chicks there too one night. No fucking clue who they were, but damn it was fun!
Dutch band BGK played there too that night
Yep, I was at those shows... the last time I saw the Toy Dolls? 1992, at the Palladium, they opened for Fear... I just had a baby 9 days before that.. but fuck if I was going to miss the Toy Dolls. I never liked Fear. So we left after the Toy Dolls... Got home to pick up the baby... on TV "Riot of punk rockers outside the Hollywood Palladium" LOL! God those were the fucking days.
Tazman: Taz, it was called the International show, Raw Power, Solucion Mortal, it was bands from all over the world. Good ass show.
@cookie Mobsters, I too, was suppose to be at that show at the Palladium. Then saw the news on TV. Kinda glad I didn’t go. A little too rough for me at 15. No regrets, saw plenty of great bands at great small intimate venues all around LA throughout high school and college.
i was lucky enough to see THE DK's 4 times back in the early 80's here in L.A. and was even lucky enough to shoot the shit with JELLO for about 45 minutes he was the epitome of cool.
i was supposed to go to this gig but my parents caught me smoking weed in my bedroom and so i wasn't allowed to go (i was only 16 and still dependent on my parents). it was pure coincidence i ran across this thanx fer posting.
You don't see Jello kicking any of his fans in the face for running up on stage like Fat Mike. Jello Biafra = true punk.
True that. But he's still not afraid to punch a motherfucker in the face if they're being a dipshit 9:32. Real punk.
R0SC0E You don't see anybody grabbing jello by the neck either. Cause and effect. Startled, you punch.
R0SC0E if you can't handle fans onstage, get out of punk
Spicy Carpets totally justified.
Definitely and not a liberal turd like Billy Joe Armstrong
I'm so glad I saw these guys in there prime. DK will never be DK without Jello. I saw them the first time at the Goleta Community center and it was amazing. I was here too.
I was at Goleta too, my first. I was hooked. Me and my Bros followed them all over Cali including an I'm famous willmington show when riot police locked gym doors and marched in single file. Police cars as far as the eye could see. Black flag opened that one. Saw their last show in TJ. Those were the days. PS Goleta closed for good a month later we someone broke their neck stage diving. Too bad, it was a great venue. Cheers
I saw a concert with out jello and in the first song realized this is not DK
Jello Biafra alwayGives it his best so intense and so elevated as an ambassador of the original political movements it’s still the world and it’s still happening brothers and sisters of the world is me and the world is you now the second generation of punx are here change is happening in England and the rest of our. Collectively spirit guided soul BE BLESSED BE TRUE AND BE STRONG
AND REMEMBER PUNK IS ETERNAL 😊😊😊
So Fuckin Rad!! This video should be in the Library of Congress
Damn it, I want a damn time machine so I can go back and see the real Dead Kennedys play live.
Couldn't agree with you
I'm sure I was there. Can't remember who played with them or anything..the Olympic had great gigs!
vinney boombotz: It was the international show. Raw power played , Solucion mortal from Mexico, and 2 other bands from other countries. I still remember, I was 13 yrs old. I went with my brother and sister. I still have the flyer somewhere in my house. Olympic Auditorium best shows ever.
I want a time machine so I can go back and be at a DK show again.
I was at this show! The Olympic shows were huge & Totally amazing 🤩
I was 16 when I was at this show and I remember it well,spent most of their set in the slam pit....
Awesome beyond belief. If only we could see them again. That would be a dream come true.
I was there..i was 2 years old
Olympic auditorium gigs in the early 80s were soooooo great. Unbelievable had to be there !!!! I was at many. Early Bad religion off the hook all the kids on stage
I saw these guys so many times and ever time I saw them play ,it was like the first time ,they rocked ever time they were on a stage!!!!!!!
What a wonderful thing to get to see this,and audio sounds good.Still listening to the punk rock and playing bass just like back then.This concert gives hope for the future.
Man, this is so good. I need to listen to this every now and then to bring me back to reality. Love the Kens.
That intro to police truck fucking rocks. DH is going ham
Yes! It is that show! I just saw this, and remember Jello's Carl's Jr. t-shirt! My first punk show!
Thank you Jella for a Spectacular 84 games- hope to see you next LA games! Xxs
I was at this show, there were 3 pits and all of them were way more hardcore than any of this BS today. Any show at The Olympic was truly hardcore back then. A dude climbed up the ampstack and dived off. Totally insane show!
Yeah, I remember that. Don't know if he jumped or was pushed by a bouncer.
I was there. I hung out most of the show with Derf Scratch from Fear and for awhile Peligro from the Dead Kennedys. I was 25 then now almost 65 years old. Time flies....
long live the memories of the Olympic Auditorium,it was a godsend in my youth I feel I was a privileged few who actually experienced the real live thing,I've been wondering if anybody knew who filmed any interviews outside the Olympic me and my friends were always confronted with News cameras or producers from frontier records I'm guessing but never sober enough to ask who they were haha
3:48 Michael Myers next to the drummer...
Either him or Buckethead
His fave song is Dead End. No, Bleed for Me!
@@kwyjibo2112 Fuck Buckethead! Michael BRINGS IT!!
@@donaldmccovid1970 Michael is a fictional character. Buckethead, is not.
OMG Yes!
11:20 "Whole Lotta Bucks"!!!
I was at this show, and I got one of the Carlos Jr t-shirts like Jello is wearing and I hung onto that thing for about 10 years until it literally fell apart. LOL. Great show, took place during the 1984 Summer Olympics in L.A.
Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust- still my all time fav punk record.
I like Frankenchrist prolly cuz my brother showed me that album first and dropped zome cid
If this was the International Show, I was getting laid in the nosebleed seats while DK played. I was just getting into punk at the time and that show was my first big show. All I could think was, "If this is punk rock, I'm going to be punk for life!"
Biafra was such a great performer
A 19 year old me was at this gig. DH was a great drummer. Also the first time I heard "MTV get off the air".
Attended - thanks so much for this footage and quality.
Man what show that one was! Not just another typical Olympic show ether! The joys of growing up in LA during the 80's Punk scene!
Killer show! Thanks for your love of DK and sharing.
Man how I loved that band! …Still do!
I was there. The most dangerous pit I've ever seen.
back in the 80s...most ferocious scenes were LA, Boston , NYC.. intense.
Try a Dwarves pit sometime.
dangerous and beautiful this bull of a girl with pig-tails, tattoos and a wife-beater kicked me in the nuts that night and again the night UK Subs played there! it was great!
I was there too, and I even have one picture
Boston pits are no fucking joke
excellent.....great hardcore punk documentation.
East Bay Ray is an awesome guitarist, love it when he used his Echoplex
Saw the dead Kennedys at the paramount theater in 1982 on Staten Island wow to this day hands down the most amazing and wild show
Folk music at its best
This is so great! Thank you so much!
Damn! I would love to be at a DK Show in the 80's. ... in the front row. 😎
thanks for this upload ! if you ever get a chance you HAVE to see Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine
I was there. Wow time flies!!
Awesome show. Great lineup that night. Great Venue. Miss all the old spots: Whisky, Roxy, Cathay, Palladium, Starlight Ballroom, Fenders, Santa Monica Civic, Oki Dog, Melrose Avenue.
You forgot to mention the Starwood! Another great spot from that era.
Wow!!! Thanks for sharing this!
Estamos em 2022 é difícil e raro a plateia alucinada como nesse show antológico do dead Kennedys 🤘🤟🏃🤸🤩😵🇧🇷😎💰
Dead Kennedys along with Circle Jerks and Subhumans were my favorite punk bands back in the days.
Crass, G.B.H., Discharge and The Exploited weren’t far behind in my teenage heart!
Love it. This is my kind of gig.
I went to this.. 1984.. The flyer was a big Funeral coffin
I remember all the different punk rock bands from Finland Germany Spain London all those Different bands from Europe in one show
Hey! I just found this video! The first punk show I ever went to, as a 16 year old. I totally remember that Carl's Jr. T-shirt Jello was wearing! Cool. Some other good bands that night included Reagan Youth, who started the show with War Pigs, and Solucion Mortal, from Mexico. That was a great night. Thanks for the video!
The Downey Crew was on. It was the Olympic rushing the door because free never felt so good. We were a sick bunch . This was mellow compared to shows before. I was 19 and felt 80 the next day. Frisco had some great bands, FEAR, The Fuck Ups, these were my 3 picks to see when they were in L.A. WHAT BETTER TIME TO WAKE UP AND FIX THIS PLACE. OR GO DIE .IM ANARCHY MAN BEFORE U WERE BORN AND STILL AM FOR ANOTHER ROUND...
great comment, congrulations!
Saw em at the Cuban Club in Tampa, Fl with Rat Cafeteria and Roach Motel opening. My first punk show and what a revelation it was. I'm thinking wow you don't have to buy a ticket months in advance. You just show up and hand somebody 8 or 10 bucks and you can actually get close enough to see the band.
in 84 I was just getting into the D.C. hardcore scene where I live... this is fckn awesome!
Greetings from Freedom, Pennsylvania!
"And to that I say, Take this job and shove it!" Classic!!!!
I was here this night. Have the flyer.
I was there all stoned in the top deck lotta spit flying at Jello
0:41 till 0:56 really cracks me up, especially when he's waving hahaha
Hell FrogSixtyNine what was that about?
I was at this show, had a balcony seat. It was scary, as i recall. Jesus, I will be 69 in a few months. Still a fXXn punk.
thanx - this is excellent!!!
went down there with John Macias and Circle one Family. RIP John we love you!
That's a name I haven't seen in ages, both Circle One and Macias... Didn't know him personally, but knew of him.
The guitar itself sounded disappointed at "we're not gonna play La Grange" lol
rip darren . Olympic Auditorium great place to have a punk gig . DK show what a blast
I never saw them: in Perugia the car I was on board gave a french kiss to a carfriend of her..
In the first of Amsterdam three sold-out nights we had a close encounter of the first kind with the incorruptible Melkweg bouncers; in the second nite we had a close encounter of the second kind.. and so then we decided to spent that third nite at the Bulldog coffeeshop..
I had another chance to see the boys in Rome, two days after Perugia, but this time it was less fun: I also missed that concert because from the hospital I was taken directly to the morgue 'cause, as written on the tag with my family name they tied to my toe and which I believed to be the ticket of the show, I was 'dead'
[Nicci] Kennedy
Yeah! I used to have a poster for this one. What an amazing lineup.
We used to try and steal the posters. But so did everyone else!!! But never any violence about it. You got the poster first? Lets have a drink and go listen to some punk rock.
Love how Jello goes crazy.
Love the dead Kennedy’s. The guitar isn’t just simple 3 power chords the whole song ( even though I love the Ramones).
East Bay Ray was the shit. Had that surfer sound. Loved his guitar
Ramones used Barre chords, all downstroke. Tougher to play that way than the chart reads.
But yeah EBR used a seven string and definitely one of the best punk guitarists.
18:35 - Very interesting to get a fairly accurate history lesson on Dan White, Harvey Milk, and the “Twinkie Defense”.
What great energy
Never missed a gig at the olympic!!Olympic!!! Fucking great!!!! Awesome memories!!!!
We waited for years for the Kennedys to visit Amsterdam again. They only went once, in '82.
Never saw it happen.
Of course, the recent gig without Jello is not counting
Great performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This night was the first time I heard "MTV get off the air"......classic and so true.
love the description. I agree, fuck The Exploited
Fuck the Exploited? I'll wait for an explanation.
TheWishPretzel
The RobbyBobby Gypsy Show I don't even really hate The Exploited as a whole, just Wattie. he's a complete dumbass, and started shit with Jello Biafra(a much better songwriter and musician) for literally no reason. I understand being aggressive, but only when it's for a purpose. aren't punk artists supposed to focus their anger against all the bullshit in our modern society, not against each other?
Also he's a right wing dumbf*ck
Oh how I want to go back to high school. Fun times..
at 4:48 - some dude, (second on the left) with a meteors tee... back in 84... DK gig... california venue... that is pretty cool, really
Gigs were great back then, now everybody just stands still holding up their phones
So you'd rather have *less* footage like this?
@@OrangeYTT No, just less footage of fans holding phones, shot on a phone with worse audio quality than this.
god the olympic was fucking great I went to every show that I could there including this one! it was indescribable!
This was my first punk show
My 7th and last DK's show since 1980'
Back then metal heads hated punk rockers. Looking back it seems pretty silly
Not all of us - I was slap bang in the middle.
Loved my Maiden, Slayer & DK.
@@JB.zero.zero.1
I never said all metal heads
"I just want to be on TV, just like you Lord." Too funny.