For Immediate Release: DEAD KENNEDYS PUZZLED BY BIAFRA'S LATEST LEGAL MANEUVER - SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - March 27, 2002
No one has been served with an actual complaint yet. If the news stories are to be believed, Klaus Flouride, D.H. Peligro, East Bay Ray and Brandon Cruz, who is singing with Dead Kennedys now, are saddened that Biafra, perhaps misled by his team of attorneys, has fallen victim to making baseless and imaginary legal charges. Dead Kennedys are neither recording at this time nor is there a "Biafra impostor."
In case you weren't sure, this is the DK Kennedys' statement in response to the news that Jello will be suing them. The rest of the statement is below. Never let it be said we don't allow both sides of a story to be heard.
Klaus, D.H. and Ray, as well as Brandon, are concerned about Biafraâs behavior and denial. Brandon Cruz has a substantial independent career as the singer of the Oxnard punk band, Dr. Know. He is the real thing; he is his own man. Brandonâs name has been billed on for the shows, announced in our press releases and on www.deadkennedys.com since the very first Dead Kennedys' shows last October. The shows have been met with ecstatic responses, even convincing the skeptics, as witnessed on http://www.deadkennedys.com/livereviews.htm. Perhaps this is an attempt by Biafra to draw attention back onto himself and away from the successful Dead Kennedys tour.
Biafra was found in San Francisco Superior Court to have defrauded, with malice, his fellow Dead Kennedys members out of royalties owed. Not happy with the truth being uncovered in one court, Biafra thinks he can try another court. Maybe Biafra could spend less money on lawyers and instead make things right with the band.