{"id":7049,"date":"2019-05-15T11:04:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2019-09-16T05:05:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T09:05:14","slug":"dead-kennedys-dk40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/dead-kennedys-dk40\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Kennedys <br>DK40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dk40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7050\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dk40.jpg\" alt=\"Dead Kennedys, DK40\" width=\"281\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>While the reunion of the Dead Kennedys without singer and figurehead Jello Biafra has perhaps sullied the band\u2019s legacy, there is no denying that the band in its original incarnation was a punk tour de force of the highest order. Forming in the wake of punk\u2019s initial explosion, the band released a handful of incendiary singles, albums, and EPs between 1978 and 1986 that poignantly challenged Regan-era ideology and paired such pointed lyricism to a blistering soundtrack. More than the hardcore that followed, the Dead Kennedys embodied the punk ethos of freethinking, often challenging the very scene that supported them.<\/p>\n<p>But it was the band\u2019s live shows that sealed the deal. With their gigs frequently becoming a melee of bodies (with Biafra at the eye of the storm), the band\u2019s blistering performances are the stuff of legend. Seemingly to prove this point as well as mark the 40th anniversary of releasing their first single, \u201cCalifornia Uber Alles,\u201d the members now controlling the band\u2019s catalog (ie guitarist East Bay Ray, bassist Klaus Flouride, and drummer DH Peligro) have assembled the three-disc set <i>DK 40<\/i> (Manifesto Records).<\/p>\n<p>Consisting of three full live shows recorded during the band\u2019s heyday, it is indeed a convincing bit of evidence. The first disc was recorded at Amsterdam\u2019s legendary Paradiso in December 1982, just a month after the band had released its second album, <i>Plastic Surgery Disasters<\/i>, on Biafra\u2019s Alternative Tentacles label. As you might expect, it contains a number of songs from that record including \u201cRiot,\u201d \u201cBleed for Me,\u201d and \u201cI Am Owl,\u201d which Biafra points out at as a new song. However, the set hits its breakneck stride four songs in with \u201cPolice Truck\u201d as Biafra sings, \u201cRide, ride, how we ride.\u201d The show eventually climaxes with \u201cToo Drunk to Fuck,\u201d the one song the audience has literally been yelling for all night (as one can hear when one member apparently grabs the mic).<\/p>\n<p>Disc two features a show recorded just eight days later on the same tour, this time in Munich at a former U.S. army ammunitions depot called Alabama Halle. Initially released as a bootleg called <i>Skateboard Party<\/i>, this recording captures Biafra at his most unhinged, his distinctively wily wail digging into some of the band\u2019s best cuts like \u201cForward to Death\u201d and \u201cHoliday in Cambodia.\u201d Of course, the band was just as much an important factor in the DK formula, and on cuts like \u201cKepone Factory,\u201d it\u2019s easy to hear how truly amazing they were, a potent combination of speed, chops, and vitriol.<\/p>\n<p>The third disc jumps ahead nearly three years to a show recorded in the band\u2019s hometown, San Francisco, at The Farm in 1985. As such, the setlist differs greatly from the first two, with only \u201cChemical Warfare,\u201d \u201cForest Fire\u201d and \u201cHoliday in Cambodia\u201d carrying over. Instead, it favors tracks from the <i>Frankenchirst<\/i> album that came out the same year (and which notoriously attracted the attention of the PMRC). Following an intro from DH\u2019s mom, the band launches into \u201cGoons of Hazzard\u201d from that record. One can tell that the band had ventured even further from the standard \u201cthree chords and a cloud of dust\u201d of their punk peers into a swirl of guitar textures and tight as hell rhythms also anything but standard punk beats. \u201cA Growing Boy Needs His Lunch\u201d and \u201cThis Could Be Anywhere\u201d are evident of this while being no less potent. Even \u201cHoliday in Cambodia\u201d is anything but straightforward, with the band stretching it in several directions.<\/p>\n<p>The Dead Kennedys were every bit as revolutionary as the generation of bands that preceded them, and operating as a completely independent entity, perhaps even more so when it came to walking the walk. 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