This just in... the members REAL names...
East Bay Ray - Ray Peppernell, Klaus Flouride - Geoffrey Lyall, D.H. Peligro - Darren Henley, Jello Biafra - Eric Boucher... Now, on to the feature presentation...
It all began when East Bay Ray placed an ad in a music paper. It was responded to by non other than Jello Biafra (Eric Boucher), who was seeking a job and wanted to be the vocalist for the band.
They were soon joined by bassist Klaus Flouride, drummer Bruce Slesinger, and another guitarist known as 6025. He left in March of 79 and Slesinger was replaced by D.H. Peligro in 1981.
The British punk scene had yet to impact America fully, mainly because of the large size of the country, compared to the much smaller England. Bands with little money couldn t travel abroad. The Sex Pistols toured in late 77, but fell apart after a show in San Francisco, and Biafra was there to witness the occasion. Fueled by this and a trip to Britain in 1977, in the middle of full blown punk, Biafra began to feel a need to spread it in the States. America was prim... (
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