- The Early Years Live
Infobox Film
name =The Early Years Live
caption =DVD cover
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writer =
starring =Dead Kennedys
director =
producer =
distributor =Music Video Distributors
released =July 10,2001
runtime =30 min.
country =USA
language = English
music =
awards =
budget = |"The Early Years Live" is a video album of various live performances of the
Dead Kennedys , filmed from1978 to1981 byJoe Reis , owner of the punk-centric video studioTarget Video . It was officially released on VHS in July1987 (and heavily pirated some years afterward) and on DVD in2001 .The video also features, along with some of Target's trademark stock footage (battle footage, public domain movies,
Ronald Reagan ) and crude video graphics, news clips of lead singerJello Biafra 's1979 San Francisco mayoral campaign.The video is also notable for containing the only existing video footage of the original five-piece lineup of Dead Kennedys, which included original drummer
Ted and second guitarist 6025. The band's more well-known drummer,D.H. Peligro , only appears on the live-in-studio performances shot at Target Video's Bay Area studio.The performances, in order of appearance, are:
#"
California Über Alles ",Mabuhay Gardens ,San Francisco , 1979
#"Kill the Poor ", 330 Grove Street, San Francisco, 1979
#"Drug Me", Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, 1979
#"The Man with the Dogs", Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, 1980
#"Insight", Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, 1980
#"Let's Lynch the Landlord", Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, 1980
#"Bleed for Me ", Target Video Studio, San Francisco, 1981
#"Holiday in Cambodia ", Target Video Studio, San Francisco, 1981
#"Viva Las Vegas",Sproul Plaza , Berkeley, 1978The performances of "Kill The Poor" and "Viva Las Vegas" were shot in black-and-white.
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