Fun Trivia : Dead Kennedys

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Dead Kennedys

What song starts with: 'Your mommy told you this, and your daddy told you that, always think like this, and never do that'?

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Your emotions.



What song starts with: 'So you been to school, for a year or two, and you know, you've seen it all'?

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Holiday in Cambodia.



What song starts with: 'I don't need your way of life, I can't stand your attitudes, I can do without your strife'?

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Forward to death.



What song starts with: 'Efficiency and progress is ours once more, now that we have, the neutron bomb'?

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Kill the poor.



What song starts with: 'Sunny Sunday at the amusement park, see the fat hands spill their pop, oh babe'?

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Funland at the beach.



What song starts with: 'We ain't going to the party, we ain't going to the game, we ain't going to the disco'?

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Stealing peoples' mail.



What song starts with: 'Down at the arsenal they keep the nerve gasses, guarded day and night by caged white rabbits'?

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Chemical warfare.



What song starts with: 'I don't want to think, don't make me care, I wanna melt in with the group'?

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Drug me.



What song starts with: 'I am governor Jerry Brown, my aura smiles, and never frowns'?

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California uber alles.



What song starts with: 'In a desperate mind, little gardens grow, they grow very wide, they grow very tall'?

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Ill in the head.



Which band member formed the group, in June of 1978?

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East Bay Ray. Contrary to popular belief, Ray actually formed the band after seeing his first punk show in San Francisco. Within weeks, the band was already recording demos.



On March 25, 1980 the band performed at the Bay Area Music Awards. What song did they play, in its entirety?

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Pull My Strings. The Awards Show was for new and up-coming 'New Wave' bands. DK was expected to play their biggest underground hit at the time, "California Über Alles". About 15 seconds into the song, singer Jello exclaimed, "Hold it! We've gotta prove that we're adults now. We're not a punk rock band, we're a new wave band." And then they broke into "Pull My Strings". This was the one and only time the band ever played the song, either live or in studio.



Which member of the band left in January of 1981 to pursue a career in architecture?

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Ted. Ted left the group in early 1981 after drumming through the band's first album, "Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables". Ted even helped to find the Dead Kennedys' new drummer, D. H. Peligro, before leaving.



The bassist for the band's entire career was never replaced. What is his real name?

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Geoffrey Lyall. Geoffrey Lyall was born in Detroit, Michigan, in the year 1949. He's better known by his stage name, Klaus Flouride. He wore coke-bottle glasses.



The group broke up in 1986 due to Jello Biafra allegedly witholding royalties from the rest of the band. Which band member was reluctant at first to sue Biafra, but was soon 'recruited' by the other two?

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Klaus Flouride. Jello and Klaus were buddies, and Klaus didn't think it was fair to sue Jello until he was informed how much he was really entitled to.