Ex-Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra recently hit the stage with Max and Iggor Cavalera and more for a revised version of the the Dead Kennedys 1981 punk anthem “Nazi Punks Fuck Off“. That cover took place during Cavalera‘s March 03rd set at the Marquis Theater in Denver, CO, with the lyrics being repurposed to target current U.S. President Donald Trump and some of his supporters.
Prior to the performance, Biafra addressed the crowd, speaking on his relationship with the Cavalera brothers, and later explaining why he had repurposed the song to target the current leader of the free world (transcribed by theprp.com):
“We’ve been family for a long fucking time man. I first saw [Sepultura] in Denver with Ministry and Helmet. That show, in what should have still been called Mammoth Gardens. Now Live Nation has its claws into this place too. I haven’t been here since they got this place; the Elon Musk of concerts company. A lot of you know this song.
It was originally just written about people being really fucking violent in the pit and acting like a bunch of Nazis. Then, when it got to places that had real dictators and real fascists, like Brazil, and Eastern Europe, it became more, it became kind of a revolutionary cry. So no mothballing the song, especially because, for the first time ever, we are staring at real, live fascist dictatorships with red, white and blue brown shirts all over this country.
It’s gonna take ’em awhile to get to me, but I’m enough on the shit list for what I’ve said about dirty Donnie Trump… and whatnot, you never know. So now, this song has a slightly different name I think we can all relate to. Nazi Trumps, Fuck Off!”
The Cavalera brothers are out performing songs from various early Sepultura albums on a run that finds Necrot and Dead Heat opening.
03/06 Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
03/07 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Small’s Theatre
03/09 Boston, MA – Paradise
03/11 Albany, NY – Empire Live
03/12 Wilmington, DE – The Queen
03/13 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
03/14 Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore
03/15 Greensboro, NC – Hanger 1819
03/16 Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theater
03/17 Orlando, FL – The Abbey
03/18 Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room
03/20 New Orleans, LA – Howlin’ Wolf
03/21 Houston, TX Hell’s Heroes Fest
03/22 Oklahoma City, OK – Beer City
03/23 Dallas, TX – Echo Music Hall
03/24 Wichita, KS – WAVE
03/26 San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
03/27 El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace
03/28 Albuquerque, NM – El Rey Theater
03/30 Phoenix, AZ – Van Buren
