Ep355: East Bay Ray of Dead Kennedys

The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds

Nate Goyer

Music, Music History, Music Interviews

4.7 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

East Bay Ray of Dead Kennedys discusses the 2022 remix of "Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables", the challenges, the master tapes, the materials, old school fans of the band and more.

Topics include:

Grammar questions for Dead Kennedys
The humour of Dead Kennedys
The 2022 remix of Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Instrument separation in 2022 remix
Chris Lord-Alge's involvement in new remix
Obtaining a vinyl copy of the new remix
A/Bing the 1980 mix to the 2022 remix
The status of Dead Kennedys master tapes
Aborting the "In God We Trust" initial recordings due to a bad audio tape
Challenges in compiling the 2022 mix
Multiple vocal performances from the original multitrack tapes
Speed variations from master tapes
Origin of the title of Fresh Fruit album
Various sequences of the album
The importance of live sequencing
What's in Ray's record collection?
The collectability of Dead Kennedys releases
The story of the lopped off heads on back cover
Replacing the goth lettering from the Fresh Fruit cover
The story & ownership of the DK logo
The poster from Fresh Fruit
The CD and vinyl booklet from the 2022 mix
Attempting to identify all photo credits
Famous fans of Dead Kennedys
Thoughts of further remixes for other Dead Kennedys recordings
The story of Polydor trying to sign Dead Kennedys
Modern touring of old school punkbands
Offspring & Dave Grohl memories of Dead Kennedys shows
Update on The Killer Smiles – vinyl version
Interview wrap up

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0:22.0	And now, on with the show.
0:25.9	Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate.
0:28.0	Welcome to episode 355 of The Vinyl Guide,
0:32.0	the podcast for record collectors and music nerds.
0:34.3	And today we've got an absolute legend on the show,
0:37.3	Mr. East Bay Ray of
0:39.0	Dead Kennedys. And today, Ray and I are talking all about the new 2022 remix of the Dead
0:45.4	Kennedy's debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. Now, I know Dead Kennedys strike up
0:52.4	lots of emotions in peoples, as they are such a beloved band,
0:57.1	and the split and history seems to be quite polarizing for fans.
1:01.4	And I totally get it.
1:02.7	Would I like to see a classic D.K. lineup with Jello?
1:06.4	Absolutely.
1:07.4	Will I ever get the chance?
1:08.9	Most definitely no.
1:13.1	They've regularly had opportunities to reform, and they just couldn't make it work. They're that far apart. And here on the show,
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