After seeing very early gigs of The Saints, Wire, etc. He roadies for the first Colorado punk band, The Ravers, who would later move to New York and become The Nails (of “88 lines About 44 Women” fame).įall 1977: Biafra enrolls in University of California at Santa Cruz, where he studies acting and the history of Paraguay.

He decides there must be more to life than listening to Judas Priest and committing suicide. January 1977: Biafra sees The Ramones horrify an audience of the pre-yuppies he loathes at Ebbets Field nightclub in Denver. Horrific, jarring images of skeletal Biafran children dying from hunger make “Biafra” the universal symbol of starvation and genocide until the Ethiopian famine 15 years later. With British and some American help, all Biafran food supplies have been cut off for months.

Bob Demmon, leader of the surf-garage legends The Astronauts, shows the second grade class his Alaskan malamute dog (Bob’s mother worked in the school office).ġ966-68: Biafra idolizes Batman villains while his classmates want to be baseball players, nurses and policemen.ġ969-72: The Vietnam War, Chicago 7 trial, Kent State massacre, and the Denver smog problem convince Biafra that corrupt, violent governments and corporations0 should be fought, not trusted.ġ970: Fall of the Republic of Biafra: Ibo people’s war for independence is crushed by the Nigerian army. He is immediately hooked, and knows what he wants to be when he grows up.ġ966: Biafra encounters his first rock star. Biafra sees Oswald get shot live on the living room TV (See last track, Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police).įall 1965: Biafra hears rock and roll for the first time when his parents tune into a rock station by mistake.

November 1963: JFK assassinated on a day Biafra remembers well. So far, he has not been named as a suspect. 1958: Biafra born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, six blocks from the JonBenet Ramsey murder site.

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