"Let's Lynch the Lead Singer"
Published June 20, 2003
Anyway, our wKen wrote a great review here of a DK show, minus Jello, last November. Check it out:
- While the last opening band put away their equipment and the roadies set things up for DK, I staked out my spot directly in front of the stage. I was surrounded by 30-something guys, reminiscing about how crazy things got the last time they saw DK live. It wasn't long before almost everyone in the place had formed a thick standing crowd behind us.
When the house lights went out, it reminded me of the first time I got caught in a really big ocean wave. The crowd surged forward, crushing me. Then it shifted left, right, back and forth. I grabbed onto a speaker and tried to hold my prime spot as DK took the stage. The first chords sounded so loud that I couldn't believe the people without earplugs were still standing. People behind me where pushing and pulling my body at the same time. Those beside me where getting smashed together while someone else tried to force their way to the front of the stage.
Brandon was wearing a sleeveless denim jacket and red knit cap that wouldn't stay on long. Klaus Flouride, the original DK bassist and East Bay Ray, the co-founding guitarist looked more like middle-aged computer geeks than punk rockers. The drummer, D.H. Peligro , with his long wild braided hair was the only one that looked the part of a rock star. I really didn't pay a lot of attention to the band. I was too occupied with the music and the crowd. It was mob anarchy.
- "Let's Lynch the Lead Singer"
- Published: June 20, 2003
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- Filed Under: Music: Alternative Rock, Music: News
- Writer: Eric Olsen
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Love the headline, Eric: just reading it got me wishing I hadn't sold my copy of Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables years ago. . .
Thanks Bill, you should pick up the best-of Give Me Convenience collection, a classic.





dang...kinda depressing.
my favorite jello moment: somewhere on one of his spoken word records he refers to the PMRC and the "bouffant-encrusted thought police"