* 1963 – Billy Gould, American musician, songwriter, and producer ( Faith No More, Harmful, Fear and the Nervous System, and Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine )

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.

In August 1987, the criminal trial was submitted to the jury with the two remaining defendants: Jello Biafra and Michael Bonanno ( former Alternative Tentacles label manager ).

Jello Biafra brought up the court case after the break-up of the band on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

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

Biafra's former bandmates maintain that they sued because of Jello Biafra's deliberate withholding of money, though when pressed they have acknowledged that the payment was an accounting mistake, but insist that Biafra was wrong in failing to inform the band directly.

Matters were stirred up even further when the three bandmates invited Jello Biafra to " bury the hatchet " in the form of a band reunion.

When asked about the " DK " logo in an interview, Jello Biafra explained, "... I wanted to make sure it was something simple and easy to spray-paint so people would graffiti it all over the place, and then I showed it to Winston Smith.

* Jello Biafra – vocals ( 1978 – 1986 )

Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys, in the song " Saturday Night Holocaust ", likened disco to the cabaret culture of Weimar-era Germany for its apathy towards government policies and its escapism.

He has also covered songs by hardcore punk bands such as The Exploited, Jello Biafra, and Black Flag.

Jello Biafra ( born Eric Reed Boucher ; June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, United States ) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist.

* 1958 – Jello Biafra, American singer, musician, and activist ( Dead Kennedys, The No WTO Combo, and Lard )

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Like Crass, Jello Biafra was influenced by the hippie movement and cited the yippies as a key influence on his political activism and thinking, though he did write songs critical of hippies.

Musician Jello Biafra ran for several offices with the Green Party, including for President in 2000.

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Some prominent members of the punk rock community such as Fat Mike and Jello Biafra have been critical of the band's decision to replace Darby Crash with an actor.

Like Crass, Jello Biafra was influenced by the hippie movement, and cited the yippies as a key influence on his political activism and thinking, though he also wrote songs critical of hippies.

During the 2004 United States presidential election, artists and bands including Brian Baker, Jello Biafra, Mike Watt, Bad Religion, Rise Against, Circle Jerks, Ensign, Sick of It All, The Unseen, Western Addiction, and Youth Brigade involved themselves with the anti-Bush political activist group Punkvoter.

Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys has cited the Yippies as an influence on his activism and thinking.

In 2006 Farrell appeared with Jello Biafra and Keith Gordon in the documentary Whose War ?, examining the U. S. role in the Iraq War.

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

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Jello's reputation as family-friendly was slightly tarnished by Jello shots and Jello wrestling.

The stereotype was solidified in 1997 when Kraft foods released sales figures, revealing Salt Lake City to have the highest per-capita Jello consumption.

The most influential San Francisco hardcore band was the Dead Kennedys, whose frontman, Jello Biafra, became a noted social activist even after the band's last show at the On Broadway, which included The Black Athletes and Naked Lady Wrestlers on the card.

A number of individuals including Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, John Denver, Joey Ramone and Frank Zappa criticized the group, arguing that it was a form of censorship.

Jello Biafra was quoted as saying, " the new Turbonegro record is possibly the most important European record ever.

Widely acclaimed as the band's first break out album Ass Cobra ( 1996 ), Jello Biafra would later comment that it was one of the best punk albums of the ' 90s.

His guitar work was heavily influenced by surf music, jazz and rockabilly, and, alongside Jello Biafra's astute lyrics and unique vibrato-based vocal style, East Bay Ray's playing was one of the defining factors of the music of the Dead Kennedys, and by extension, of the " second wave " of American punk.

Despite the fact that the club is meant to be a non-violent environment, on May 7, 1994, audience members attacked former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, claiming he was a sellout ( per club rules, Biafra had never signed to a major label ).

During the argument, the man pushed Jello to the floor and five or six friends of Cretin assaulted Biafra while he was down, yelling " sellout rock star, kick him ".

In October 1998, Jello Biafra was sued by former members of the Dead Kennedys.

A makeshift replica of pvc tubes named the Jello Cube in honor of Peter Cooper was placed in its stead.

The band has since been renamed Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine and an album Audacity of Hype was released on October 20, 2009.

Dead Kennedys lead singer, Jello Biafra, commenting I never thought I'd hear a psychedelic slime band more hardcore than the Green Fuzz, but here they are. The band however fell apart again with Mather leaving, before the single was released in June 1983.

The band's debut LP The Crucifucks -- recorded in 1984 by Doc, Steve, guitarist Gus Varner, and Marc Hauser on bass — was released in 1985 on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label.

Jello Biafra was impressed with his guerrilla interview style, but became noticeably angered in a 2000 interview when Nardwuar began to cajole Biafra about Biafra's lawsuit against former Dead Kennedys band mates.

However, according to a January 2010 interview with Jello Biafra, he indicated that a new Lard album was unlikely, saying " Me and Al have talked about it for years, but we ’ ve never been able to nail down a time to try and put it together.

Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra wrote many songs criticizing aspects of the punk subculture, and he once accused the punk magazine Maximum RocknRoll of " punk fundamentalism " when they refused to advertise Alternative Tentacles records because they said the records " weren't punk ".

# the image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist, Jello Biafra.