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This is the begin of undoubtedly great concert -The fucking sound problem that comes from the damaged camera`s zoom that I wasn`t aware of at the time of filming it have really spoiled it for me. I`m still pissed off every time I look at the video but what`s done is done-I`ve learned the lesson!Since than I`m definitely checking the camera before I`ll start filming .I wasn`t planing to do it but finally after some time had passed I cooled down and decided to upload it anyway -so ...enjoy it as you can and more at the same time : my deepest excuses.
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine is a punk rock band led by Jello Biafra. They released their debut album, The Audacity of Hype in October 2009.
Inspired by Iggy Pop's 60th birthday gig at the Warfield in San Francisco, Biafra laid plans for his own 50th birthday party and finally decided it was time to start a band of his own. Ten years before he had been attempting the same thing with the likes of guitarist Ralph Spight (Victims Family, Freak Accident, Hellworms) and drummer Jon Weiss (Sharkbait, Horsey). They had also previously worked with bassist Billy Gould (Faith No More) who was tapped for the new group. After cramming rehearsal for a month the four piece band known as Jello Biafra and the Axis Of Merry Evildoers took the stage in a sold-out two night stand at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall and subsequently spent the next 9 months in rehearsal for an album project. Before entering the studio guitarist Kimo Ball (Freak Accident, Carneyball Johnson, Mol Triffid, Griddle) was recruited and the resulting twin guitar attack took the groups sound to new, noisier heights. The quintet now known as Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School of Medicine began recording tracks for the upcoming LP/CD "The Audacity Of Hype" slated for release in October 2009, produced by Biafra and engineered by Hip Hop legend and long time Jello co-conspirator Matt Kelley (Hieroglyphics, Tupac, Digital Underground, Victims Family) at Prairie Sun Recording in Cotati, CA and San Francisco's Hyde Street Studios.
The band's sound retains some of the spy-music-on-meth chaos of the Dead Kennedys while adding a healthy dose of Detroit style proto-punk mixed with layers of sonic guitar noise, and Weiss' industrial excursions into metal percussion. Topically, the album explores how our forced Iraqnophobia and Homeland Insecurity continues to feed lawlessness at the top, such as in the song "The Terror of Tiny Town", vs. a runaway police state and class war towards the bottom, for example in the songs "Three Strikes" and "Electronic Plantation". "Clean As A Thistle" becomes more timely every day as "Family Values" blowhards get caught in sinful trysts, while album closer "I Won't Give Up" offers an age of Obama anthem on how change comes from agitation from below, not glamor and soundbites from the top.
In 2010, Jon's brother, Andrew Weiss (Rollins Band, Ween, Butthole Surfers), temporarily filled the bass position for live performances while Billy Gould took part in the Faith No More reunion tour.
The band's second release, an EP titled Enhanced Methods of Questioning, was released on May 31, 2011.
Studio albums
No More Cocoons · High Priest of Harmful Matter · I Blow Minds for a Living · Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police · If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve · Become the Media · The Big Ka-Boom, Pt. 1 · Machine Gun in the Clown's Hand · In the Grip of Official Treason
Dead Kennedys
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables · In God We Trust, Inc. · Plastic Surgery Disasters · Frankenchrist · Bedtime for Democracy · Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Lard
The Power of Lard · The Last Temptation of Reid · Pure Chewing Satisfaction · 70's Rock Must Die
Guantanamo School of Medicine
The Audacity of Hype
Collaborations
The Melvins (Never Breathe What You Can't See · Sieg Howdy!) · D.O.A. (Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors) · Nomeansno (The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy) Mojo Nixon (Prairie Home Invasion).
LINKS :
http://www.myspace.com/jellobiafraandthegsm
http://twitter.com/#!/Jello_Biafra
Background information :
Birth name Eric Reed Boucher
Also known as Occupant, Count Ringworm, Osama McDonald, J Lo
Born June 17, 1958 (1958-06-17) (age 53)
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Origin San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres Punk rock, spoken word
Occupations Musician, speaker, record label director, Green Party politician
Instruments Vocals
Years active 1976--present
Labels Alternative Tentacles
Associated acts Dead Kennedys, The Melvins, No WTO Combo, D.O.A., Lard, Al Jourgensen, Pennywise, The Offspring, Nomeansno, Sepultura, Tool, Revolting Cocks, Napalm Death, Mojo Nixon, 1000 Homo DJs, Métal Urbain, Body Count, Tumor Circus, Butthole Surfers, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine.