i love how Jello's mic lead fell out. It shows they weren't some spoiled rich kids with all the best gear. They were just normal guys with a message and the best music around. Im only 15 but i still love the kennedys as much as any modern band.

He actually imitated Jerry Brown's facial expressions perfectly.

well we know he wasnt lip synching

Dead Kennedy's are the ultimate in what punk has ever had to offer. Jello Biafra was way ahead of his time and he's still very relevant.

the mishaps on stage make it more enjoyable. just something about being real

Nothing more punk than unplugging your mic on accident

This should be Jerry Brown's theme song, after all he is governor, again.

I love how jello is crazy, but when he normally talks its like "dafuq?! Hes so normal

I always remember Jellos face as looking like Quentin Tarantinos for some reason

Wow I was 2 when this was made 😀

Huh, Jello Biafra before he adopted his signature singing style. When I was a teen I wondered if he just had a high voice, until I listened more carefully and heard some lyrics in baritone. The lyrics and that manic singing style really set him apart from so many punk acts of the time. It's the epitome of punk to me.

I'm 41 and can still rock this anywhere I go....💯💯

I like that you can still here Jello even when his mic is unplugged... what a loud guy, or quiet crowd... one of the two.

This man should be president!!!!

he kept going even after the cord fell out :')

Memories! I remember their show in New Haven, CT (or maybe Hartford--Too much booze) in 85 or 86. Got real lucky with the flip I did off the stage.

I see Jello in concert every time he comes around here, and he still is the same energy level he had almost 40 years ago

Someone pulled the plug on Jello's microphone.

Lol at the technical difficulties he had at the beginning. They just kept going, no complaints, no stopping, only forward progress. That's punk.

In the late 90s their music made my teen years fun and I salute them.

The greatest band in the history of the universe. I saw them at a rolling skating rink called the Palladium in Montreal and they played the entire Frankenchrist album! The best concert I ever saw!

My favorite song fromthem, amazing bass

One of my favorite DK songs.

these guys made me feel like the hulk back when i felt wierd and out of place, there music made me wanna be, a loud out spoken individual, and still to this day now that im 38 years old i wanna run around and act and scream lyrics at the top of my lungs to be that person `jello`` who in my eye`s gave me a voice and shit ton of funin my life.

dude is amazing

"Can't get more sexy than this" Jello is absolutely gorgeous here. Who cares if he did drugs, it's the 70's, everyone did drugs.

They were so awesome the deserve a tribute.

This is way before your time youngster. CLASSIC.

Jello’s facial expressions and mannerisms on stage are so entertaining 😂

Jello Biafra is the best frontman of punk rock scene ever

Love this band

i see you feel the same way, awesome man

demented genius and I adore it

great thanks for answering

Dead Kennedys are the wildest, fastest and cleverest punk band ever.

back When punk was fucking punk !

Powerful! He was so lost in it he thought he was Caesar for a moment...

it looks like hes been rollin!!!(x

AWESOME!

6025 is in this

I love his crazy face.

Always a top performance.

I saw Dead Kennedys in SLC in 1985 and Jello was perfection!

these guys are so important.....

Jello Biafra was really influenced by Iggy Pop , in the same punk rock art performance on display in full nakedness and weird moves

Fans of this kind of music that are in their 20s, 30,s and even 40s now have "no idea" just how rebellious this was in 1979/80. My buddies in I lived in So CA, and our group was 12-14 when the Decline Of Western Civilization came out in 1980, first the cassette, then the movie. At the Brea Mall that movie lasted maybe a week. A year b4 in 79' the Warriors came out, (and though nothing to do with Punk Rock), that didn't last long in our theater either. The mall had also had 4 the midnight movies in the late 70s/early 80s, and the staples were Zeps the song remains, rocky horror, Kentucky Fried Movie, and in my freshman yr of hs 82/83 they closed the midnight movies forever there because the zep rockers and the Who Quadrafinia "Mods" kept brawling in the parking lot. Heady Times!

q locuraaaa, estar en ese directo vale millones

What is amazing is that they were a great band.

Best video ever

Awesome

Wholesome stuff

I like how we just went normal after his mic got unplughed

As a Brit, there was 2 US bands who got punk right. Bad Brains and DK's. And unlike Poor ginger Johny Rotten, Jello is still relevant and keeping the spirit alive.

I'm Brazillian, I've no idea what hes saying, but I don't give a fuck, i feel like a lunatic when I listen to this... awesomee

great band!!!

I remember when this song was on Tony Hawk's American Wasteland c:

saw them many times in early 80's SF. They are great! Met Jello many times.

@pitbull103 How was meeting Jello? I met him also in NYC back in 82...one crazy cat! Met Billy Idol that nite as well, along with Joey Ramone

jello biafra the best voice of punk!!!! fantastic video!!! l fron brazil , l like punk!!!

@pitbull103 I met Jello after a Green Party convention back in 2000. Really nice guy!

dead kennedys are not the ultimate punk band...they are the ULTIMATE BAND!!!!

Woah... never seen any video with the other guitar player. Rockin.

I just cant believe kidz from the AOSR sang and performed this it brought back the times.... Mayfair 2010

this sounds so much better live than in the recording

I WARMED THEM UP WITH "THE RETORTS" AT THE HOTEL ST. CLARE IN SAN JOSE, CA. ABOUT 1980 OR 81 & SOMEWHERE THERE EXISTS A VIDEO OF THE CONCERT!!! THE ANGRY SOMOANS PLAYED THAT NIGHT TOO!!! CHECK OUT MY OLD BAND "VOOM DOOM"!!!! ROCK ON!!

Uber Alles California ooo ooo ooo! Jello's deep had a chance to hear him speak at UConn during the late 80's

Ridiculously hot.

LLLOVE

Muito louco!!!

Great song by a great band! Got to see them perform at GWU in DC, July 22, 1982. I remember that G.I. was on the bill... who eles?

Damn great! So cool about the Dead Kennedys. They dress like totaly normal people but play hard core punk.. Wonderfull!!!

pure class

Jello is fucking crazy punk singer... DK is on of really interesting punk bands... Punk Classics

obviously one of the greatest punk song of all time

everyone was still pogoing in this video.

He's doing his best Tomata.

NOW IT IS 1980~4!!!!! KNOCKIN KNOCK IN AT YOUR FRONT DOOR!!!!!!!

I’m telling my kids this was governor Jerry Brown

fucking awesome, just wish i could have seen them back in the day

Jello did the one glove thing before Michael Jackson

34 years ahead of its time . . . but then again it was Californium Lebensraum.

It's cool to see footage when they were still a five-piece! 6025 contributed a lot to the early sound.

Jello the GOAT

The best

gold

Right when I play the dead Kennedys fucking Ruthann plays the dominant card. Goddamn!

A pillar on 80s experimental punk trash and an infinite number of genres of music we are yet to explore... hail to master Mr Yellow Biafra and his Dead Kennedys and thank god for your birth Sir...

1979, wow. Back when the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Ramones were considered to be "punk" bands. This is REAL punk music.

word.

I never thought to ask this before, but why does Jello wear the rubber gloves?

Love the dead Kennedys

Jello is fucking insane. I love it.

this is some good music best

that was the creepiest performance but it was awesome

those guy were real punks.

@NoobBanditos I feel you dude.

Jello Biafra is one of the greatest frontmen ever !!!!!!!!!!

Wow someone really just have yanked the cord out of the mic and he still made it an amazing performance

hahaha a fellow JME and PUNK fan, yeah man

Biafra looks like Sick Nick Mondo from CZW. BOTH ARE FUCKIN' INSANES!!!