Chris Robinson
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Podcast Appearances
We'll figure it out later what talent or whatever.
We just want to plug in and start going and singing horrible things and trying to be offensive.
Now people walk around in Dead Kennedys t-shirts and it's like, oh, cool.
But back then, Dead Kennedys made people like the name of that band, the Circle Jerks.
The names of these bands made people upset.
But I mean, I think inevitably anything like that, I mean...
Edgar Allan Poe was that in a literary way in the, you know, the tail end of the Victorian age.
But now he's just like a thing hanging in some goth kid's car, like an air freshener or something.
So things get swallowed up culturally.
And regurgitated as just, you know, and it just so happens the Dead Kennedys have one of the greatest logos of all time.
Let the people... Yeah, yeah.
In a way, I mean, someone took a chance... You know, a band like Alan Vega and, you know, like Suicide.
Like someone... You know, the no-wave music in New York in the late 70s.
Someone took a chance and said, yeah, I was thinking about how weird was that?
You know, like bringing that into a studio where... Who was just in here?