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Something edgier for the late night crowd.
Dead Kennedys were invited to play a festival attended by industry bigwigs, in an effort to add "new wave credibility."
They were asked to play "California Über Alles", showed up in shirts with a big "S" on them, put on ties to form a "$", and faked the crowd out a few moments in.
"Hold it! We gotta prove we're adults now! We're not a punk rock band, we're a new wave band..."
"pull my strings" ─ dead kennedys