| Live at the Deaf Club 1979 | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Dead Kennedys
Label: Manifesto Records
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 145518
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 42908
UPC: 767004290829
EAN: 0767004290829
ASIN: B0001CNPRW
Release Date: March 9, 2004
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Condition: Brand New
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| Tracks:
| • | Kill the Poor | | • | Back in Rhodesia | | • | Man With the Dogs | | • | Gaslight | | • | California Über Allies | | • | Ill in the Head | | • | Straight A's | | • | Short Songs | | • | Holiday in Cambodia | | • | Police Truck | | • | Foward to Death | | • | Have I the Right - Dead Kennedys, Blaikley, Alan | | • | Back in the U.S.S.R. - Dead Kennedys, Lennon | | • | Viva Las Vegas - Dead Kennedys, Pomus |
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Album Description
This is an album or rare, unreleased recordings from March 1979, recorded live at San Francisco's Deaf Club. The sound quality is excellent, & it features the original 5-piece line-up of Dead Kennedys. This is only the second-ever authorized live release from the band, after 'Mutiny on the Bay' from 2001. 15 tracks including a never-before heard DK song 'Gaslight', plus an 8-page booklet of brand-new art! Digipak. Manifesto. 2004.
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 Glorious punk from the past, despite the current acrimony April 22, 2004
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a great CD, which is important to say right up front. If it weren't for the lawsuit between Jello and the rest of the former DK's there would not be any controversy over this recording. Despite the ugliness of that legal battle (irrespective of which side you plant yourself), this CD delievers where MANY 20+ year old recordings do not. It simply sounds great, a not so inconsequential achievement for a punk recording given the paucity of both funds and quality recording equipment typically available to such bands at that time. In addition, there are several unreleased songs on this recording (most notably "Gaslight," which is great) and Jello is in rare form. Sure, there are a few glitches in the performance (there always will be in "true" live recordings; note: Performance glitches, not recording), but this is the last show with 6025, so c'mon! stop with the punk posturing and just enjoy this CD for the rare document that it is. In my opinion, this recording is better than the "Mutiny on the bay" recording, which is also great despite the mudraking that also surrounded it's release. Bands like this do not exist anymore and any bootleg of the Kennedys that you can get your hands on will not come close to touching the quality of this disc. A disco version of "Kill the poor" an early version of "When you get drafted" (Back in Rhodesia) and a cover of the Honeycomb's "Have I the right" make this an essential document that you'd be a fool to miss
 What's the point? March 18, 2004
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you have "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" and "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" you pretty much have everything on here. "Gaslight" is okay, but it's not worth buying a CD for. Maybe it'll wind up on a bootleg 45 like "Cold Fish" did, but it's not that thrilling anyway. Neither are the covers. It's not really fair how much the remaining DKs have been demonized in the scene, but then again, putting out junk like this and the "Lost Tapes" DVD isn't helping their cause any. Hey, how about writing new songs? Maybe they could drop the nostalgia tour, change their name to The Iraqi Scientists or something and try to be interesting or original again. But, this CD is just plain boring.
 Get your snake oil here!!! June 29, 2005
8 out of 19 found this review helpful
Ha!! This is crap!! There is nothing at all here that is worth the purchase. The only cool thing is the disco version of "Kill The Poor" which is actually REALLY good. This set was recorded before FFFRV was released and it shows. Every song pales in contrast to the later studio versions. I was very interested to hear how the extra guitar would embellish the songs, but a very curious mixing job almost hides it in back. And as for all the 'hype' about the unreleased song "Gaslight".... there was a reason it went unheard: because it out and out stinks!!! A strong chorus catch phrase does not make a good song. It sounds unfinished and chaotic. The cover songs at sets end are also pointless and boring... This cd sucks. 'First Mutiny On The Bay' (which was pretty atrocious... don't tell me those were the best versions of songs they could find for that turd, that's pathetic), then this... Come on Biafra-less Dead Kennedys... stop living in the past. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see these guys are only out for the bucks. This release would NOT make a fan out of the band. I'll repeat that one: It will NOT make a fan out of the band. Why not a "new" live album with their newest replacement (i won't say scab) singer? Play all the old crappy, forgotten tunes you dropped, rock out your best karaoke versions of your 'greatest hits' and give us a real treat to hold in our hands. Better yet, instead of rehashing the past, why not put out a NEW album, with NEW songs. I triple dog dare ya!!! See if Biafra was really as unimportant to the fans and band as you seem to imply in interviews. If he was, why this crap rehash? The only good points about this are the very clean sound and Ted's killer drumming on "Ill In The Head". Oh and nice booklet of "new DK art".... not!! Pathetic... another half hearted attempt at cashing in on past laurels with absolutely no clue. I admit it, you got me again with the proverbial carrot on the stick!!! Forked out another dime on you snake oil salesman. And like true snake oil, the promises were in the packaging. Stay Away!!!
Dead Kennedys rule! August 19, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The title sums up what I think about this band - at least what it was prior to their fall-out after the scandal. This live album is quite the gem. Even though this show took place a little over five years before I was born, I still can get a feel of what it might have been like to sit in the audience of a Dead Kennedys concert. It's that good. Plus, it's the original 5-piece lineup with Jello, East Bay Ray, Klaus, Ted, and 6025! And it includes the never-before heard song Gaslight. This is a good cd. Is it essential to your DK collection? Probably. I know for a fact I don't regret spending money on it.
Happy listening.
I LOVE SHORT SONGS!!!! March 10, 2004
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
First off, this CD sounds better than the last live cd. But it's songs from two albums only ( w/ 3 cover songs, different mixes of short songs and straight a's & one new song ) But i don't care because this CD is great. The new song "gaslight" is worth 15 bucks alone. The other highlights are " kill the poor Disco version, the two covers & ill in the head ( its better live! )
So if you think DK rules ( GO BUY THIS NOW!!!)
Thanks to the DKs for making more rare stuff available.
Plus jello still gets his cut of the money!
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