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SAN FRANCISCO -- Former members of the Dead Kennedys are facing off in court. Guitarist East Bay Ray, bassist Klaus Fluoride and drummer D.H. Peligro claim that Jello Biafra, former lead singer of the band, has been hoarding the profits from their records and using them to support his new career as a sometime politician and spoken-word artist. They claim Biafra has dipped into hundreds of thousands of dollars to which they also are entitled. Biafra says his former bandmates have been on the attack ever since he refused to sell the rights to the song "Holiday in Cambodia" to Levi's for a television commercial. The trial's jury selection is taking place this week, and a spokeswoman for Biafra's record label said arguments were scheduled to start Monday in San Francisco Superior Court. The Dead Kennedys broke up in 1986. They were know for their hard-core songs like "Kill the Poor," "Religious Vomit" and "California Uber Alles." |
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