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How I named "the Dead Kennedys"

Mark Bliesener, Westword, 21 July 2011

IN MAY OF 1976, I quit my job in L.A. playing drums with ? and the Mysterians, and "retired" to Berthoud. The scheme was to live as far away from pavement as possible, and I found a place on a dirt road near Carter Lake. As quasi-idyllic as this may sound, a persistent problem was raising the $135 per month rent. But I did own a PA system, inherited as my part of the settlement in some long-ago band breakup. So I offered the system, with me as operator, for $50 a night.

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