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12/24/2006

Police Truck

Jello Biafra is the only person I’ve ever seen break a bone on stage. He finished the show, by the way. Here are the Dead Kennedys playing ‘Police Truck’:

East Bay Ray is an underrated guitarist. He has a unique melodic sensibility, and his lines are surprisingly dissonant without completely destroying the pop song form. There are some nice chromatic lines here, not least of which the descending line at the beginning of the song that spells out e minor seven, a c # ‘half diminished’ seven, a e minor sixth chord, and then a big e minor. That same descending line is echoed in the in his opening riff. Very nice.

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