Chords for JELLO BIAFRA interview on 'Denton' - Australian TV, November 1995 (Part 1)
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All right, we'll jump straight to our second guest then.
One of the original punk rockers, the leader of the legendary Dick Kennedys.
In 1979, he seared his way into the American consciousness with this rather elaborate prank.
One of the most unusual [C] candidates to emerge in American politics [Fm] recently is a punk rock star, Jello [D] Bianca, who ran for the office of mayor of San Francisco.
[E] [Am]
[E] When the votes were counted, this punk rock star, Jello Bianca, had come [G] in a [Em] close third and had [Abm] nearly been elected mayor of [E] one of the greatest cities in [G] America.
Encouraged by [E] the wide support, his next campaign might well be for the presidency of the United States.
[Abm] He's here on slightly more serious but equally subversive business touring the country, lecturing about the conservative conspiracy to crush free speech.
Please welcome Jello Bianca.
You're a murderer.
[N]
You'll need more guests that way.
Maybe that's why Jon Bon Jovi [Ab] didn't show up.
Yeah, maybe he got killed by the door, I don't know.
But look at it this way, with all the endless marketing of ordering the old stars through the mail, reminiscing about the good old days, blah, blah, blah.
Even now they found a way to just not have a cheap TV commercial, an ongoing news documentary prime time commercial to order the Beatles box set, and you fell for it.
But you probably could every year, if you're in luck, be if they could just get the FBI to cough up all those tapes they made when they tapped John Lennon's phone.
Wow, the FBI tapes of the Beatles?
Oh yeah, because then they could just, Paul I'm sure would see nothing wrong with it when he counted the money, just putting a little musical backing to it, and you'd have endless new Beatles quote unquote songs for the next millennium.
Yeah, but half of them's going to be Yoko, they're not going to sell, they really aren't.
No, they would [N] edit that out.
Oh, I see, right.
The computer you can edit just about anything now, as you well know.
I know, in fact that comment of yours is just gone, I'm sorry about that.
That campaign that you ran for the mayor of San Francisco, one of your platforms was that between 9 and 5 in the main street of San Francisco, every businessman must wear a clown suit.
How was that received?
It seems to be the one the mainstream media picked up on, maybe the only one they remember, I don't know.
It's the one we like.
Well, there were a lot of good ideas though, I thought it was very practical to have police officers stand for election in the districts they patrol.
Keeping in mind how violent police officers are in America, you've seen the video of Rodney King, the Los Angeles police did that to fans of my band as well on more than one occasion.
And that wouldn't happen if people got to vote on who their cops were, I thought that was very practical.
Such a zonk.
And even the clown suits was actually in reply to Dianne Feinstein, who was the incumbent mayor who was re-elected and is now in the United States Senate as a lobbyist for Indonesia for all practical purposes.
Anyway, she said she wanted to clean up San Francisco and she meant the other end of Market Street.
I thought, no, the stuff where the dirty stuff goes on is Chevron headquarters, Bank of America headquarters, and that's where I thought they should wear the clown suits.
Well, it would be a very nice look.
You actually are considered by the moral majority as a threat to American society.
What is it about them that scares you?
Basically that they're not very tolerant people.
They're fundamentalist Christians.
I have nothing wrong with people believing in God or having spiritual values.
But when one group has a very narrow interpretation of the Bible or the Koran or whatever, and decides they should force it on everybody else by bending the law, by harassing people through violence.
And through censorship, I figure it's time to object.
Well, let's talk about censorship.
Last year, for some reason, Mickey Mouse cartoons were taken off air.
Why was that?
I never heard about that and I'm not sure I believe it.
Oh, well, okay.
You aren't thinking of Mighty Mouse, are you?
I wish Mickey Mouse had been taken off air.
Okay, this is a perfect example of how the religious right operates.
Okay, there was an episode of Mighty Mouse.
Was that shown in Australia?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Okay, so you know who Mighty Mouse is.
Okay.
Mighty Mouse sniffed a bouquet of flowers, the petals broke off and went up his nose.
Reverend Donald Wildman, a long time and very well funded right-wing extremist activist who's tied in with a lot of right-wing senators and Republican presidents and things,
sent out a mailing to people about this show and somebody had put me on his mailing list as a prank.
So I actually got to read this thing.
Dear friends, CBS has declared war on our children.
That was the first sentence.
Very subtle, this Donald Wildman.
He has a way with words even if he does have no chin.
But anyway, and no tolerance either.
Basically, what he said was, Mighty Mouse, by sniffing these flower petals, was promoting cocaine use to young children on the air.
And because Wildman has so many people on his mailing list who then fill out the pre-printed postcard to all the companies that bought ads on Mighty Mouse,
saying they're going to boycott them and to the network that they did that.
Also, Wildman was talking about blacklisting Ralph Bakshi, who drew that episode and did Lord of the Rings and Fritz the Cat earlier and therefore was a devil worshipping pornographer [Ab] who snuck on the network TV.
I mean, funny as this sounds, these people are taken seriously in America, not just by people who start boycotts enough to intimidate a network into pulling Mighty Mouse off the air,
but they are able to get people to vote them into power, slowly but surely.
And they always start by bashing music, library [N] books, you
One of the original punk rockers, the leader of the legendary Dick Kennedys.
In 1979, he seared his way into the American consciousness with this rather elaborate prank.
One of the most unusual [C] candidates to emerge in American politics [Fm] recently is a punk rock star, Jello [D] Bianca, who ran for the office of mayor of San Francisco.
[E] [Am]
[E] When the votes were counted, this punk rock star, Jello Bianca, had come [G] in a [Em] close third and had [Abm] nearly been elected mayor of [E] one of the greatest cities in [G] America.
Encouraged by [E] the wide support, his next campaign might well be for the presidency of the United States.
[Abm] He's here on slightly more serious but equally subversive business touring the country, lecturing about the conservative conspiracy to crush free speech.
Please welcome Jello Bianca.
You're a murderer.
[N]
You'll need more guests that way.
Maybe that's why Jon Bon Jovi [Ab] didn't show up.
Yeah, maybe he got killed by the door, I don't know.
But look at it this way, with all the endless marketing of ordering the old stars through the mail, reminiscing about the good old days, blah, blah, blah.
Even now they found a way to just not have a cheap TV commercial, an ongoing news documentary prime time commercial to order the Beatles box set, and you fell for it.
But you probably could every year, if you're in luck, be if they could just get the FBI to cough up all those tapes they made when they tapped John Lennon's phone.
Wow, the FBI tapes of the Beatles?
Oh yeah, because then they could just, Paul I'm sure would see nothing wrong with it when he counted the money, just putting a little musical backing to it, and you'd have endless new Beatles quote unquote songs for the next millennium.
Yeah, but half of them's going to be Yoko, they're not going to sell, they really aren't.
No, they would [N] edit that out.
Oh, I see, right.
The computer you can edit just about anything now, as you well know.
I know, in fact that comment of yours is just gone, I'm sorry about that.
That campaign that you ran for the mayor of San Francisco, one of your platforms was that between 9 and 5 in the main street of San Francisco, every businessman must wear a clown suit.
How was that received?
It seems to be the one the mainstream media picked up on, maybe the only one they remember, I don't know.
It's the one we like.
Well, there were a lot of good ideas though, I thought it was very practical to have police officers stand for election in the districts they patrol.
Keeping in mind how violent police officers are in America, you've seen the video of Rodney King, the Los Angeles police did that to fans of my band as well on more than one occasion.
And that wouldn't happen if people got to vote on who their cops were, I thought that was very practical.
Such a zonk.
And even the clown suits was actually in reply to Dianne Feinstein, who was the incumbent mayor who was re-elected and is now in the United States Senate as a lobbyist for Indonesia for all practical purposes.
Anyway, she said she wanted to clean up San Francisco and she meant the other end of Market Street.
I thought, no, the stuff where the dirty stuff goes on is Chevron headquarters, Bank of America headquarters, and that's where I thought they should wear the clown suits.
Well, it would be a very nice look.
You actually are considered by the moral majority as a threat to American society.
What is it about them that scares you?
Basically that they're not very tolerant people.
They're fundamentalist Christians.
I have nothing wrong with people believing in God or having spiritual values.
But when one group has a very narrow interpretation of the Bible or the Koran or whatever, and decides they should force it on everybody else by bending the law, by harassing people through violence.
And through censorship, I figure it's time to object.
Well, let's talk about censorship.
Last year, for some reason, Mickey Mouse cartoons were taken off air.
Why was that?
I never heard about that and I'm not sure I believe it.
Oh, well, okay.
You aren't thinking of Mighty Mouse, are you?
I wish Mickey Mouse had been taken off air.
Okay, this is a perfect example of how the religious right operates.
Okay, there was an episode of Mighty Mouse.
Was that shown in Australia?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Okay, so you know who Mighty Mouse is.
Okay.
Mighty Mouse sniffed a bouquet of flowers, the petals broke off and went up his nose.
Reverend Donald Wildman, a long time and very well funded right-wing extremist activist who's tied in with a lot of right-wing senators and Republican presidents and things,
sent out a mailing to people about this show and somebody had put me on his mailing list as a prank.
So I actually got to read this thing.
Dear friends, CBS has declared war on our children.
That was the first sentence.
Very subtle, this Donald Wildman.
He has a way with words even if he does have no chin.
But anyway, and no tolerance either.
Basically, what he said was, Mighty Mouse, by sniffing these flower petals, was promoting cocaine use to young children on the air.
And because Wildman has so many people on his mailing list who then fill out the pre-printed postcard to all the companies that bought ads on Mighty Mouse,
saying they're going to boycott them and to the network that they did that.
Also, Wildman was talking about blacklisting Ralph Bakshi, who drew that episode and did Lord of the Rings and Fritz the Cat earlier and therefore was a devil worshipping pornographer [Ab] who snuck on the network TV.
I mean, funny as this sounds, these people are taken seriously in America, not just by people who start boycotts enough to intimidate a network into pulling Mighty Mouse off the air,
but they are able to get people to vote them into power, slowly but surely.
And they always start by bashing music, library [N] books, you
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All right, we'll jump straight to our second guest then.
One of the original punk rockers, the leader of the legendary Dick Kennedys.
In 1979, he seared his way into the American consciousness with this rather elaborate prank.
One of the most unusual [C] candidates to emerge in American politics [Fm] recently is a punk rock star, Jello [D] Bianca, who ran for the office of mayor of San Francisco.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[E] When the votes were counted, this punk rock star, Jello Bianca, had come [G] in a [Em] close third and had [Abm] nearly been elected mayor of [E] one of the greatest cities in [G] America.
Encouraged by [E] the wide support, his next campaign might well be for the presidency of the United States.
_ [Abm] He's here on slightly more serious but equally subversive business touring the country, lecturing about the conservative conspiracy to crush free speech.
Please welcome Jello Bianca.
You're a murderer.
[N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
You'll need more guests that way.
_ _ _ Maybe that's why Jon Bon Jovi [Ab] didn't show up.
Yeah, maybe he got killed by the door, I don't know.
But look at it this way, with all the endless marketing of ordering the old stars through the mail, reminiscing about the good old days, blah, blah, blah.
Even now they found a way to just not have a cheap TV commercial, an ongoing news documentary prime time commercial to order the Beatles box set, and you fell for it.
But you probably could every year, if you're in luck, be if they could just get the FBI to cough up all those tapes they made when they tapped John Lennon's phone.
Wow, the FBI tapes of the Beatles?
Oh yeah, because then they could just, Paul I'm sure would see nothing wrong with it when he counted the money, just putting a little musical backing to it, and you'd have endless new Beatles quote unquote songs for the next millennium.
Yeah, but half of them's going to be Yoko, they're not going to sell, they really aren't.
No, they would [N] edit that out.
Oh, I see, right.
The computer you can edit just about anything now, as you well know.
I know, in fact that comment of yours is just gone, I'm sorry about that.
That campaign that you ran for the mayor of San Francisco, one of your platforms was that between 9 and 5 in the main street of San Francisco, every businessman must wear a clown suit.
How was that received?
It seems to be the one the mainstream media picked up on, maybe the only one they remember, I don't know.
It's the one we like.
Well, there were a lot of good ideas though, I thought it was very practical to have police officers stand for election in the districts they patrol.
Keeping in mind how violent police officers are in America, you've seen the video of Rodney King, the Los Angeles police did that to fans of my band as well on more than one occasion.
And that wouldn't happen if people got to vote on who their cops were, I thought that was very practical.
Such a zonk.
And even the clown suits was actually in reply to Dianne Feinstein, who was the incumbent mayor who was re-elected and is now in the United States Senate as a lobbyist for Indonesia for all practical purposes.
Anyway, she said she wanted to clean up San Francisco and she meant the other end of Market Street.
I thought, no, the stuff where the dirty stuff goes on is Chevron headquarters, Bank of America headquarters, and that's where I thought they should wear the clown suits.
Well, it would be a very nice look.
You actually are considered by the moral majority as a threat to American society.
What is it about them that scares you?
Basically that they're not very tolerant people.
They're _ fundamentalist Christians.
I have nothing wrong with people believing in God or having spiritual values.
But when one group has a very narrow interpretation of the Bible or the Koran or whatever, and decides they should force it on everybody else by bending the law, by harassing people through violence.
And through censorship, I figure it's time to object.
Well, let's talk about censorship.
Last year, for some reason, Mickey Mouse cartoons were taken off air.
Why was that?
I never heard about that and I'm not sure I believe it.
Oh, well, okay.
You aren't thinking of Mighty Mouse, are you?
I wish Mickey Mouse had been taken off air.
Okay, this is a perfect example of how the religious right operates.
Okay, there was an episode of Mighty Mouse.
Was that shown in Australia?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Okay, so you know who Mighty Mouse is.
Okay.
Mighty Mouse sniffed a bouquet of flowers, the petals broke off and went up his nose.
Reverend Donald Wildman, a long time and very well funded right-wing extremist activist who's tied in with a lot of right-wing senators and Republican presidents and things,
sent out a mailing to people about this show and somebody had put me on his mailing list as a prank.
So I actually got to read this thing.
Dear friends, CBS has declared war on our children.
That was the first sentence.
Very subtle, this Donald Wildman.
He has a way with words even if he does have no chin.
But anyway, and no tolerance either.
Basically, what he said was, Mighty Mouse, by sniffing these flower petals, was promoting cocaine use to young children on the air.
And because Wildman has so many people on his mailing list who then fill out the pre-printed postcard to all the companies that bought ads on Mighty Mouse,
saying they're going to boycott them and to the network that they did that.
Also, Wildman was talking about blacklisting Ralph Bakshi, who drew that episode and did Lord of the Rings and Fritz the Cat earlier and therefore was a devil worshipping pornographer [Ab] who snuck on the network TV.
I mean, funny as this sounds, these people are taken seriously in America, not just by people who start boycotts enough to intimidate a network into pulling Mighty Mouse off the air,
but they are able to get people to vote them into power, slowly but surely.
And they always start by bashing music, library [N] books, you
One of the original punk rockers, the leader of the legendary Dick Kennedys.
In 1979, he seared his way into the American consciousness with this rather elaborate prank.
One of the most unusual [C] candidates to emerge in American politics [Fm] recently is a punk rock star, Jello [D] Bianca, who ran for the office of mayor of San Francisco.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[E] When the votes were counted, this punk rock star, Jello Bianca, had come [G] in a [Em] close third and had [Abm] nearly been elected mayor of [E] one of the greatest cities in [G] America.
Encouraged by [E] the wide support, his next campaign might well be for the presidency of the United States.
_ [Abm] He's here on slightly more serious but equally subversive business touring the country, lecturing about the conservative conspiracy to crush free speech.
Please welcome Jello Bianca.
You're a murderer.
[N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
You'll need more guests that way.
_ _ _ Maybe that's why Jon Bon Jovi [Ab] didn't show up.
Yeah, maybe he got killed by the door, I don't know.
But look at it this way, with all the endless marketing of ordering the old stars through the mail, reminiscing about the good old days, blah, blah, blah.
Even now they found a way to just not have a cheap TV commercial, an ongoing news documentary prime time commercial to order the Beatles box set, and you fell for it.
But you probably could every year, if you're in luck, be if they could just get the FBI to cough up all those tapes they made when they tapped John Lennon's phone.
Wow, the FBI tapes of the Beatles?
Oh yeah, because then they could just, Paul I'm sure would see nothing wrong with it when he counted the money, just putting a little musical backing to it, and you'd have endless new Beatles quote unquote songs for the next millennium.
Yeah, but half of them's going to be Yoko, they're not going to sell, they really aren't.
No, they would [N] edit that out.
Oh, I see, right.
The computer you can edit just about anything now, as you well know.
I know, in fact that comment of yours is just gone, I'm sorry about that.
That campaign that you ran for the mayor of San Francisco, one of your platforms was that between 9 and 5 in the main street of San Francisco, every businessman must wear a clown suit.
How was that received?
It seems to be the one the mainstream media picked up on, maybe the only one they remember, I don't know.
It's the one we like.
Well, there were a lot of good ideas though, I thought it was very practical to have police officers stand for election in the districts they patrol.
Keeping in mind how violent police officers are in America, you've seen the video of Rodney King, the Los Angeles police did that to fans of my band as well on more than one occasion.
And that wouldn't happen if people got to vote on who their cops were, I thought that was very practical.
Such a zonk.
And even the clown suits was actually in reply to Dianne Feinstein, who was the incumbent mayor who was re-elected and is now in the United States Senate as a lobbyist for Indonesia for all practical purposes.
Anyway, she said she wanted to clean up San Francisco and she meant the other end of Market Street.
I thought, no, the stuff where the dirty stuff goes on is Chevron headquarters, Bank of America headquarters, and that's where I thought they should wear the clown suits.
Well, it would be a very nice look.
You actually are considered by the moral majority as a threat to American society.
What is it about them that scares you?
Basically that they're not very tolerant people.
They're _ fundamentalist Christians.
I have nothing wrong with people believing in God or having spiritual values.
But when one group has a very narrow interpretation of the Bible or the Koran or whatever, and decides they should force it on everybody else by bending the law, by harassing people through violence.
And through censorship, I figure it's time to object.
Well, let's talk about censorship.
Last year, for some reason, Mickey Mouse cartoons were taken off air.
Why was that?
I never heard about that and I'm not sure I believe it.
Oh, well, okay.
You aren't thinking of Mighty Mouse, are you?
I wish Mickey Mouse had been taken off air.
Okay, this is a perfect example of how the religious right operates.
Okay, there was an episode of Mighty Mouse.
Was that shown in Australia?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Okay, so you know who Mighty Mouse is.
Okay.
Mighty Mouse sniffed a bouquet of flowers, the petals broke off and went up his nose.
Reverend Donald Wildman, a long time and very well funded right-wing extremist activist who's tied in with a lot of right-wing senators and Republican presidents and things,
sent out a mailing to people about this show and somebody had put me on his mailing list as a prank.
So I actually got to read this thing.
Dear friends, CBS has declared war on our children.
That was the first sentence.
Very subtle, this Donald Wildman.
He has a way with words even if he does have no chin.
But anyway, and no tolerance either.
Basically, what he said was, Mighty Mouse, by sniffing these flower petals, was promoting cocaine use to young children on the air.
And because Wildman has so many people on his mailing list who then fill out the pre-printed postcard to all the companies that bought ads on Mighty Mouse,
saying they're going to boycott them and to the network that they did that.
Also, Wildman was talking about blacklisting Ralph Bakshi, who drew that episode and did Lord of the Rings and Fritz the Cat earlier and therefore was a devil worshipping pornographer [Ab] who snuck on the network TV.
I mean, funny as this sounds, these people are taken seriously in America, not just by people who start boycotts enough to intimidate a network into pulling Mighty Mouse off the air,
but they are able to get people to vote them into power, slowly but surely.
And they always start by bashing music, library [N] books, you