#DEAD KENNEDYS 1982

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

CUE "BLEED FOR ME" RIGHT ABOUT NOW -- I REALLY HOPE THAT WASN'T REAL HUMAN BLOOD.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a "Drunk with Power"-themed gig/show flyer for American hardcore punk band DEAD KENNEDYS, plus shots from said gig, performing live at the On Broadway, San Francisco, CA, on June 27, 1982. 📸: Greg Gaar.

NOTE: Check out the CRASS "Anti-war/Nagasaki Nightmare" patch on the kid's jacket up front. Nice one! Classic stuff!

Source: https://x.com/PunkRockStory/status/1673508993111674882.

[spilladabalia]

moon over marin dead kennedys (lyrics)

[nando161mando]

Oct 14 1982, the Canadian anarchist group Direct Action, composed of Ann Hansen, Brent Taylor, Juliet Caroline Belmas, Doug Stewart and Gerry Hannah, used 550 lbs of stolen dynamite to bomb the Litton Industries factory that was manufacturing guidance systems for 407 US Tomahawk cruise missiles

They first stole 38½ cases of dynamite from a Highways explosives store house months earlier.

They drove a stolen truck alongside the building, stuck a fluorescent warning sign on it, called the security desk to tell them a bombing was imminent and to warn factory workers and local hotel guests to avoid windows.

Dead Kennedys would later sing

"In Toronto someone blew up

A cruise missile warhead plant.

10 slightly hurt, 4 million dollars' damage.

Why not destroy private property

When it's used against you and me?

Is that violence?

Or self-defence?

You tell me "

They would later fire bomb three franchises of "Red Hot Video" which was linked to paedophilic and snuff material.

One of the members Ann Hansen Would later issue Direct Action - Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla

(Thanks to Detritus Books for the initial post)

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𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔎𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔢𝔡𝔶𝔰 - 𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔈𝔫𝔡

[saltlakehardcoreflyers]

[punkrockhistory]

43 years ago

Dead Kennedys have released their most important and still very relevant single

“Nazi Punks Fuck Off”

The Ritz, Austin, Texas, August 7, 1982

[napunk-history]

Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

Rotation, Hannover, West Germany (1982-12-09)

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Spex (Musik Zur Zeit) (1982)

Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

[greenesmyfavcolor]

What year does Little Shop of Horrors take place?

Alright, as you can tell from the title, Imma bout to dissect which exact year LSOH takes place since there’s never been any concrete answer from an official source to my knowledge and lemme tell ya, it’s harder than you think lol

Ok so we know that Audrey II came to earth on September 21st/23rd (21st in the stage version and 23rd in the movie version) during the 1960’s “in an early year of a decade” but they never tell us the exact year.

However we do know that Kennedy was president during the events of the movie as he is mentioned on Seymour’s radio and his presidency lasted from 1961 to 1963.

And in the directors cut (which I consider canon to some extent), Jason and the Argonauts is shown to be playing in a theater during Don’t Feed the Plants and that movie came out in June of 1963 so that must mean LSOH has to take place after that date. So the year has to be 1963 if Kennedy is still president and that movie is playing in theaters.

However Audrey II mentions during Feed Me that Seymour could be on Jack Paar’s radio show and that ran from 1957 to 1962.

So now it can’t be 1963 as Jack Paar would have already ended by then and it can’t be 1962 as Jason wouldn’t have been playing in theaters yet.

However LSOH can still take place in both years. Who’s to say that Audrey II didn’t take over the world until the year 1963? It could have been 1962 when the events of the film started but by the time Audrey II gained enough power to start to destroy NYC, a few months could have passed for it to be 1963. And the film does begin in September which is late into the year so it is plausible.

But here’s when this whole theory really starts to fall apart lol.

Before the shop is renovated, there’s a calendar in the back that’s very hard to read but based on the positioning of the dates, it matches up with the year 1964 as the first day of the month starts on a Tuesday. And it’s shown at the very beginning of the movie so the solar eclipse has to have happened in 1964 which goes against everything else that has been brought up so far. Although the year the calendar says doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the actual year, it’s kind of a long shot to assume that they would have the wrong calendar year hung up.

Also neither the 21st nor the 23rd of September fall on a Thursday in 1964 which is the supposed day of the week the eclipse happened according to the same radio broadcast that mentions JFK.

Also also I looked up what exact month Jack Paar’s radio show ended and it just so happened to end in March of 1962 so LSOH can’t take place in 1962 if it starts in September.

So right now, it may sound like we’ve officially hit a dead end. But the thing is, I’ve mainly been listing off things that show up in the movie which isn’t the original source material. That would be the 1982 stage version. We have to remember that anything in the movie that contradicts what year it takes place in in the stage version is not solid evidence because that’s not what was originally intended. So technically, we only have to go off what the original stage production states if we want to figure out the year.

So in the stage version, it’s still mentioned that it takes place in the 1960’s “in an early year of a decade” and that Jack Paar had a radio show before 1962. The only things the movie brought up were the argonauts, Kennedy, the calendar, and what day of the week the eclipse happened. If you want to go ahead and count anything in the movie as canon evidence as to when LSOH takes place, be my guest but there’s so many things that contradict when it does happens that I’m just going to go off the original stage production.

Because of this, my bet is that the events of LSOH start on September 21st, in between the years 1960 and 1961.

I wish I had more of a solid answer so if anyone has any more evidence that suggests what year it might take place from either the stage or movie version, lmk cause I’ve been thinking on this for way too long 🥲

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

PROPER SOCIO-POLITICAL AMERICAN HARDCORE LANDS IN THE UK -- "THE SOUND OF HELL TOO CLOSE TO HOME."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on concert tour poster designs for American hardcore punk band DEAD KENNEDYS, performing live in the UK for the then first time during the months of November-December, 1982.

EXTRA INFO: These were both lifted from the "Bristol Punk Flyers" fanpage online, and hardcore band's DISORDER and MDC reportedly supported the Bath, UK gig at the Pavilion on November 22, 1982.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3296160211389258486.

[punkrockhistory]

43 years ago

Dead Kennedys backstage at the Whisky a Go Go, April 1982.

D.H. Peligro, Klaus Flouride, East Bay Ray and Jello Biafra.

Photo by Glen E Friedman.

[napunk-history]

Dead Kennedys

Halloween (1982)

[rastronomicals]

7:11 AM EDT October 31, 2024:

Dead Kennedys - “Halloween” From the album Plastic Surgery Disasters (June 1982)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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[favemusiclessons]

The Evolution of 80s Punk (1980-1989) with Guitar Tab

00:00 Dead Kennedys - “Holiday in Cambodia” - 1980 00:30 Black Flag - “Rise Above” - 1981 00:59 Bad Brains - “Banned in D.C.” - 1982 01:36 Circle Jerks - “In Your Eyes” - 1983 01:58 Minutemen - “Nature Without Man” - 1984 02:35 Husker Du - “The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill” - 1985 02:58 Cro-Mags - “Malfunction” - 1986 03:43 Big Black - “L Dopa” - 1987 04:20 Bad Religion - “Suffer” - 1988 04:40 Nirvana - “Blew” - 1989

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

SF HARDCORE IS ABOUT TO PEAK IN L.A. -- "PLASTIC SURGERY DISASTERS" ON TOUR.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on vocalist/lyricist/ Jello Biafra & guitarist East Bay Ray of San Francisco-based hardcore punk band DEAD KENNEDYS, performing live at the Whisky, a go go, on Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, on July 4, 1982. TSOL [TRUE SOUNDS OF LIBERTY] and BUTTHOLE SURFERS opened. ����: Alison Braun.

"The Whisky was my favorite venue to shoot at. Plus it was close to my house. My dad would drop me off early enough to walk in and hang out. Being a 16 year old, nobody ever noticed me milling around upstairs. I’m still convinced that people thought I was someone’s kid."

-- ALISON BRAUN (L.A.-based '80s punk rock photographer)

Sources: https://twitter.com/zzzkpdzzz/status/1149502962852478976, Facebook, various, etc...