- No WTO Combo
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Name = The No WTO Combo
Img_capt = Jello Biafra and Kim Thayil as part of The No WTO Combo, December 1, 1999.
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Genre =Alternative rock Punk rock
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Years_active =November 26 —December 2 ,1999
Label =Alternative Tentacles
Associated_acts =Jello Biafra , Nirvana,Sweet 75 ,Soundgarden ,The Dead Kennedys
URL = [http://www.alternativetentacles.com/bandinfo.php?band=nowtocombo&sd=-S1A1xNMc@U20jYHJIQ Artist page on Alternative Tentacles web site]
Current_members =Jello Biafra Krist Novoselic Kim Thayil Gina Mainwal
Past_members = The No WTO Combo was a one-shotpunk rock band started byKrist Novoselic (former Nirvana bassist). The band consisted of Jello Biafra (former frontman ofDead Kennedys );Kim Thayil ofSoundgarden ; therhythm section ofSweet 75 , Gina Mainwal and finally Novoselic.They were originally scheduled to play the Showbox
November 30 , the night before the WTO meeting of 1999 inSeattle , but the performance was canceled because the venue's staff could not get past the police "curfew zone".They rescheduled the show for the next night,
December 1 , but Biafra and Novoselic played a short acoustic set that night down the street at The Central Tavern, where Biafra was approached by local record producer Mark Cavener. Cavener offered to record the album at the Showbox the next evening. The performance itself would be the first formal concert played by Thayil since the demise of Soundgarden a few years beforehand, and only the second time Biafra had played music in a planned live setting since the Dead Kennedys split in 1986 He had done one live show with his post-Kennedys project Lard in 1990, and assorted impromptu guest spots with Ministry, D.O.A., and other bands since 1987] .Novoselic later asked Jack Endino to mix the recordings, resulting in the bands' only release titled "
Live from the Battle in Seattle " distributed by Biafra's record labelAlternative Tentacles .Band members
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Jello Biafra -- vocals
*Kim Thayil -- guitar
*Krist Novoselic -- bass
*Gina Mainwal -- drumsFootnotes
External links
* [http://www.raptorial.com/Zine/Reviews/NoWTO.html Official Soundtrack of the Cardboard Turtle Insurrection]
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