My good friend Luke Cole was a brilliant, pioneering lawyer, and you can click on his name or here to learn more about his amazing life and career. But before all that, he was just the cub reporter on the punk rock beat for SKANK Magazine, when he was at Stanford in 1982. As such, he got the job of interviewing Jello Biafra, lead singer for San Francisco's legendary Dead Kennedys, when they came through Palo Alto. Here's the 11-minute 1-on-1 interview, where the future corporate-butt-kicking attorney and inventor of the practice of Environmental Justice probes Mr. Biafra on fashion, religion, politics, the band's name, and why he liked playing the Mab.
Also linked below are two other bits of audio from that night:
• Jello berating the audience for being conformist jugheads, after one of them only hooted and grunted when Jello gave him the microphone.
• For Brave Ears only - a raw, noisy audience-Walkman recording of a couple of songs from that night: "Holiday In Cambodia", the sounds of the crowd demanding more, and the encore "Rawhide". This very dodgy recording is presented only for the sake of evoking memories of those dank, beery halls, and those nights when the air shook with punk energy. I even included a bit of the ghastly prog-rock tune the club's DJ immediately put on to clear the room.
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