[kj] Dead Kennedys in brouhaha of Tarantino film use of "Too Drunk to Fuck" single

B. Oliver Sheppard bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net
Sat Mar 24 11:04:53 EDT 2007


[Although Jello has done some unsavory things to ex-members esp. re: keeping back the DKs catalog in print and skimping on royalties, I still have to say that, though I haven't seen this movie yet, I m still on Jello's side here. The ex-DKs licensed the song to Tarantino for use during a rape scene in his flick "Grindhouse," without Jello's approval. The lispy-voiced DKs singer don't like it. -Oliver]




New York Post [Page Six] - March 22, 2007

Punk Conscience

LEGENDARY punk rockers the Dead Kennedys are alive and fighting. Last
week, frontman Jello Biafra blasted former bandmates East Bay Ray,
Klaus Flouride and D.H. Peligro for licensing their song "Too Drunk
to [Bleep]" to play during a rape scene in Quentin Tarantino and
Robert Rodriguez's new "Grindhouse." Biafra fumed, "Some people will
do anything for money . . . I'd sure love to be a fly on the wall
when [Flouride] tries to explain to his teenage daughter putting a
song in a rape scene for money." Yesterday, the rest of the group hit
back, telling punknews.org: "Jello is getting paid extremely well and
we challenge him to put his money where his mouth is and donate his
share to a woman's cause, if he is truly concerned with the issue."



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