Spike Presents, "Music Pre-Pose Out Echoplex Vegan Smilecore Bullshit"

Due to the success of California Über Alles, Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bammies, the Grammies of San Francisco, which Biafra describes as San Francisco's "backslapping circus banquet." During dress rehearsal, DKs ran through their current hit, but when got onstage, they treated the audience ( full of music industry bigwigs and mainstream rock acts such as Journey) to a scathing attack of the music industry, in a song called "Pull My Strings" composed especially for the occasion.


[During their performance, the Dead Kennedys wore white shirts with the letter S painted on the front. On the recording of the song, once "Pull My Strings" begins the audience can be heard cheering in response to the band members pulling their black neckties from behind their backs in front of them, making a dollar sign.]


The song, recorded live at the awards show, begins with the band playing the opening chords to "California Über Alles". After the first few bars, Biafra yells out "Hold it!" and sarcastically tells the audience that they're becoming a New Wave band because they "need to prove [they're] adults now". Klaus Flouride begins to play another bass line, and a new song begins.

Biafra begins singing about him not being able to afford a car thanks to his self respect, and decides to sell out to the record companies to make some money ("I'm tired of self respect, I can't afford a car, I wanna be a pre-fab superstar"). He decides to become one of the cookie cutter new wave acts breaking into pop music at the time. The chorus implies that the musicians in the new wave bands need to be dumb and have a large penis, and are able to be pulled by strings like a puppet because they've sold their souls to the record labels, who basically can now mold them in whatever they (the labels) want them to be.

One of the targets of the Dead Kennedys in the song appears to be The Knack, who hit big around that same time with "My Sharona". Twice in the course of the song, in its middle and at its end, a bridge is played to the tune of "My Sharona", with Biafra singing the word "drool" to the tune of it and replacing "My Sharona" with "my payola". Biafra also makes a sarcastic reference to the hypocrisy and drug abuse of the American bourgeoisie, referencing famous comedian Bob Hope with the line "And when I'm rich and meet Bob Hope, we'll shoot some golf and shoot some dope".

This was the only time they ever played the song, despite its popularity.

Greg Ginn: Hurling His Fans Into Brick Walls Since 1979

Defending a horrible, Black Flag reunion show/cat shelter benefit, which got slammed by the music press for lacking the involvement of almost all of the other Black Flag members, using pre-recorded basslines, and generally just being a complete pile of shit, Ginn dumbfoundingly claimed,

"I don't like hanging around cynical people. They'd never do something for a cat, so they can't understand that."

Further evidence that Greg Ginn is a human dickbag can be found within the 8 years worth of obscure Black Flag articles HERE online.

Cashgrab of the week: Buddyhead.com

How do you squeeze more heroin out of your local hipster?

Step 1: Have no taste in music.
Step 2: Don't start band Start music page.
Step 3: Take photo of self in wife beater or failing that post-coitus feline sex.
Step 4: Tell people what kind of music to like then don't be open to other people's opinions.
Step 5: Aol Skag from Huffington Post!!1
Step 6: Try to act like a bad ass Punk Rocker but really be some sad fuck living a boring life.
Step 7: Pull the Plug on any band you don't like.


Also, make a wikipedia that says you're openly gay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Keller That definately helps.