Feederz
| Feederz | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Arizona, United States |
| Genres | Punk rock, hardcore punk |
| Years active | 1980–1987, 2002–present |
| Labels | Anxiety Records, Placebo Records, Flaming Banker, Broken Rekids |
| Associated acts | Dead Kennedys, Eddy Detroit, Victory Acres/Joke Flower |
| Website | http://www.feederz.org/ |
| Past members | Frank Discussion Clear Bob (Dan Clark) Art Nouveau (John Vivier) Mark Roderick D.H. Peligro Jayed Scotti Ben Wah Denmark Vese Brant Bolling |
The Feederz are a punk rock band, originally from Arizona. They were known for their controversial song "Jesus" (aka "Jesus Entering from the Rear"), which was featured on Alternative Tentacles' infamous Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation, and for their provocative album covers. The Feederz had strong Situationist tendencies, verging into communism and anarchism. Their songs were highly critical of government, consumerism and religion.
Lead singer Frank Discussion is also known for his "subvertisements" or "derailments", an adaptation of the situationist tactic of detournement, as well as what he calls "interventions" whereby one detourns physical events by intervening with an out-of-place element in the physical world, a tactic expressed as simply as placing disparate items in unsuspecting people's shopping carts, thereby raising the action beyond the level of mere prank to a conscious tactic used to undermine society and to express a unified critique of it. He is also known for being one of the developers of "antistasiology", defined as the comparative study of various types of tactics, strategies and organizational structures used by various resistance movements, historically and currently.
Discussion and Clear Bob (Dan Clark) formed the Feederz in 1977. Art Nouveau (John Vivier) later joined as a drummer. Before performing publicly, the Feederz issued a press release that the local media mistook as a terrorist communique. At their first show, Discussion caused a panic by firing blanks from an AR-15 rifle into the audience. In 1980, the band released their first recording, the four-song EP Jesus.
In 1982, Discussion wrote "Bored with School", a diatribe against school and work posing as an announcement from the Arizona Department of Education, and distributed 5,000 copies to local high schools. He fled Arizona to escape arrest for this incident and settled in San Francisco.
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