Jello Shots
Hey, it's Jello Biafra's birthday. A lot of top punks didn't make it this far. The Dead Kennedys were sometimes on the edge of self-righteousness, but I thought their sense of humor saved them.
And who would have thought the lyric to "California Uber Alles" would sound so modern?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:11 AM
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When I was in high school, half a dozen students (not including me) called themselves "punks" or "punkers", although only one was truly considered "hardcore". When the DKs played the Whiskey a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in 1981, they all went. They all came back with bruises, and some with knife wounds. The Herald Examiner's review of the show said that around one hundred guests had to be taken out by the bouncers because they were too badly wounded. According to one of the guys I knew, there were actually some hardcore punks who were jumping off the (low) balcony and landing feet-first on the heads and shoulders of the crowd below... and they were wearing cleats.
Not long after that, the Dead Kennedys recorded "Nazi Punks Fuck Off". The lyrics were clearly aimed at this hyper-violent mosh-pit punk subculture:
If you've come to fight, get outa here.
You ain't no better than the bouncers....
Ten guys jump one, what a man.
You fight each other, the police state wins!
[You] stab your backs when you trash our halls.
Trash a bank if you've got real balls!
But the hardcore punk scene just ignored Jello's diatribe. Tyler Durden eventually switched from self-destruction to the destruction of bourgeois society, but the punks just kept beating on each other.
I've taken part in some slam dancing, but the people involved were generally having a good time and not trying to hurt anyone.
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