Biafra claims that their lawyers had told him only to correspond through lawyers and not directly with the band, as the conflict over payment had apparently arisen before the accounting mistake was discovered.

East Bay Ray claims he received a fax from Alternative Tentacles purporting Biafra approved the licensing for the game, which Biafra denies happening.

However, Biafra claims the above mentioned licensing deals prove otherwise.

East Bay Ray claims that he has never been consciously influenced by surf music, and attributes the recognizable elements of surf in the Kennedys music to " having grown up in California ," although it could certainly be the influence of Klaus Flouride or Jello Biafra.

Ray authorized and had a production credit for a CD of live Dead Kennedys recordings, Mutiny on the Bay, which Biafra claims is of poor quality.

Biafra claims that he was attacked by a man nicknamed Cretin, who crashed into him while bringing the mosh.

Many volunteer bodies organised blockade-breaking relief flights into Biafra, carrying food, medicines, and sometimes ( according to some claims ) weapons.

Semi-facetiously, Biafra claims that this " new " Dead Kennedys lineup could start a precedent where other former child stars take the place of original lead vocalists in classic punk bands, hypothesizing that Frankie Muniz would front The Misfits, Black Flag's new frontman would be Gary Coleman, and that The Germs would return with Emmanuel Lewis substituting for Darby Crash ( The Germs recently reunited with actor Shane West, who portrays Crash in What We Do Is Secret, as lead singer ).

Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray and vocalist Jello Biafra formed the original Alternative Tentacles partnership, but the label is now run by Biafra, who became the sole owner in the mid-1980s.

* Jello Biafra worked as a roadie for The Ravers ( later known as The Nails ) before forming the Dead Kennedys with guitarist East Bay Ray

Its members, the guitarist Dino Cazares, Jello Biafra, drummer Pat Hoed, bass guitarist Billy Gould and vocalist Juan Brujo, used pseudonyms as most were members of other known bands.

The song features a heavy surf rock / garage rock riff from guitarist East Bay Ray and satirical lyrics from Jello Biafra that paint a trenchant picture of an outrageous, moronic party.

Although 6025 is sometimes mentioned as a drummer, singer Jello Biafra has stated 6025 was recruited solely as a guitarist.

Singer Jello Biafra has stated " a week before our first gig we got a guitarist who called himself 6025 and he left about 6 months later ".

It appears on their second album Sieg Howdy and was composed by Biafra and Melvins guitarist Buzz Osborne.

) The song title derives from a quote by Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray that Biafra has been recalling in recent spoken word performances: "( He ) always used to say that our own fans were so dumb that they'd buy anything, and that ' nobody believes that political shit anymore '.

The original band lineup consisted of Jello Biafra ( Eric Reed Boucher ) on vocals, East Bay Ray on guitar, Klaus Flouride ( Geoffrey Lyall ) on bass, and Ted ( Bruce Slesinger ) on drums and percussion.

Around the same time, East Bay Ray had tried to pressure the rest of the band to sign to the major record label Polydor Records ; Biafra stated that he was prepared to leave the group if the rest of the band wanted to sign to the label, though East Bay Ray asserts that he recommended against signing with Polydor.

* The WitchTrials, side project of Jello Biafra and East Bay Ray, and their eponymous album

# " Potshot Heard ' Round the World " ( East Bay Ray, Jello Biafra ) – 2: 10

# " Lie Detector " ( East Bay Ray, Jello Biafra ) – 3: 43

With help from Jello Biafra and Klaus Flouride, East Bay Ray crafted a distinct and driving guitar style and sound.

East Bay Ray headed the legal struggle to win ownership of Dead Kennedys ' intellectual property and to secure royalties withheld from the band by Jello Biafra.

On 30 May 1967 Enugu was declared the capital of the short-lived Republic of Biafra which was created out of the East Central State, Cross River State and Rivers State of eastern Nigeria.

Enugu again became the capital of the East Central State after the war finished and Biafra was dissolved in 1970.

This licensing caused criticism from many Dead Kennedys fans, who used it to assert that East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride, and D. H. Peligro are no longer committed to the band's anti-corporate beliefs, unlike vocalist Jello Biafra ; however, Alternative Tentacles gave approval for the song to appear in the game.

Since 1970, his major work, published in world magazines, includes wars and revolutions in Biafra, Bangladesh, Ulster, Vietnam, the Middle East, Chile, Cuba, and South Africa with an essay on apartheid.

He and his former band-mates also became embroiled in a protracted lawsuit with former frontman Jello Biafra over reimbursement for band income and band material, which was settled in 2000 in the favor of East Bay Ray, Flouride, and D. H. Peligro.

From being the capital of the Southern Provinces, Enugu became the capital of the Eastern Region ( now divided into nine States ), the capital of now defunct Federal Republic of Biafra, thereafter, the capital of East Central State, Anambra State, ( old ) Enugu State, and now the capital of the present Enugu State through a process of state creation and diffusion of administrative authority.

Initially the band was a quartet, consisting of Klaus Flouride, Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, and Bruce Slesinger, who all had answered an ad placed by East Bay Ray, but 6025 was added to the line-up before the first gig on July 19, 1978.

The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.

In 2001, Ray, Peligro, and Flouride chose former Dr. Know singer Brandon Cruz to replace Biafra on vocals.

In 2001, Flouride reunited with Ray and Peligro under the Dead Kennedys name, taking on Dr. Know vocalist Brandon Cruz as a replacement for Biafra.

In 2001, the band reformed without Biafra, who had been in a legal dispute with the remaining members over royalties.

Former band members claimed that Jello Biafra had conspired to pay lower royalty rates to the band members.

Both sides claim they attempted to resolve the matter without legal action, but the ultimately complicated legal dispute ( involving royalties, publishing rights, and a number of other issues ) soon led to the courts, where Biafra was found liable for the royalties after the jury determined that he had committed fraud and malice, and was ordered to pay damages of nearly $ 200, 000, including $ 20, 000 in punitive damages, to the band members.

Biafra had received sole songwriting credit for most Dead Kennedys songs on all released albums for the last 20 years or so without complaints from the band, though a minority of songs had given credit to certain group members or the entire band as a whole, indicating a system designed to reflect the primary composers rather than a regimented system like the Jagger / Richards partnership ; today, most Kennedys reissues list the songwriters as " Biafra, Dead Kennedys ", indicating Biafra's lyrical contributions — which the band doesn't dispute, or else simply as " Dead Kennedys ").

The song never appeared in a Levi's commercial, although in interviews Biafra described the situation surrounding the commercial in detail and was able to give specifics about the advertisement, including the name of the advertising agency that had created the commercial's script.

After initial military gains, the Biafran forces were pushed back and in 1970 Biafra was reabsorbed into Nigeria after an estimated population of 3 million Biafrans including women and children had been killed through the war starvation policy of the Nigerian Government.

After two-and-a-half years of war, during which a million civilians had died in fighting and from famine, Biafran forces agreed to a ceasefire with the Nigerian Federal Military Government ( FMG ), and Biafra was reintegrated into Nigeria.

The currency of Biafra had been the Nigerian pound, until the Bank of Biafra started printing out its own notes, the Biafran pound.

At the beginning of the war Biafra had 3, 000 troops, but at the end of the war the troops totalled 30, 000.

By the spring of 1969, Biafra had assembled five MFI-9Bs in Gabon, calling them " Biafra Babies ".

In 2010, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, showed that Igbos born in Biafra during the years of the famine were of higher risk of suffering from overweight, hypertension and impaired glucose metabolism compared to controls born a short period after the famine had ended.

The band later release fifth album Deviant, which had appearances of drummer John Stanier and Jello Biafra.

The suit claimed that Biafra had failed to pay the band royalties on Dead Kennedys albums.

Ojukwu led the Biafran forces and on the defeat of Biafra in January 1970, and after he had delegated instructions to Philip Effiong he went into exile for 13 years, returning to Nigeria following a pardon.

On 9 January 1970, General Odumegwu-Ojukwu handed over power to his second in command, Chief of General Staff Major-General Philip Effiong, and left for Côte d ' Ivoire, where President Felix Houphöet-Biogny – who had recognised Biafra on 14 May 1968 – granted him political asylum.

He had to get his father's age mates, or near age mates to work with him and for Biafra.