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This DEAD KENNEDYS'performance
June 16, 1984 marked the closing of San Francisco's DMPO's ON BROADWAY Avante Guarde Theatre and Nightclub.
Director Dirk Dirksen documents the performances of KLAUS FLOURIDE, Bass; D.H. PELIGRO, Drums; EAST BAY RAY, Guitar; and JELLO BIAFRA, Vocals;
the crowds energy, interaction and mood. The 58 minute concert was captured,
in real time, using four color cameras and a stereo Hi-Fi audio track.
San Francisco's North Beach, site of the concert, has traditionally provided asylum for the cultural fringe. In the Fall of 1975 Dirk Dirksen introduced emerging avant garde artist/performers to the proprietor of a quiet Filipino piano bar and family supper club, the Mabuhay Gardens. He convinced the owners to let him open the club on otherwise dark nights.
Beginning with the staging of a comedy by "LES NICKELETTES", an infamous feminist guerilla theatre troupe; and a series of early punk rock and new music bands, events featuring painters; dancers; poets; video/film artists the FAB MAB evolves into one of the seminal venues of our time. Seven nights a week, 365 nights a year, fans flocked first to the FAB MAB, later to the ON BROADWAY. Before anyone else dared Dirksen booked such outlaw luminaries as THE RAMONES, THE DAMNED, DEVO, MADNESS, BLACK FLAG, THE SCREAMERS, BLONDIE, EDDIE MONEY, THE GO-GO'S, Y-T, THE CRAMPS, NICO, ROBERT FRIPP, JIM CARROLL, THE NUNS, SVT, ZEV, |
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