Feederz

Feederz are a Punk Rock band, originally from Arizona, United States. They are 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 have 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 detournes 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. Frank 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 7inch "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. In 1984, Discussion reformed Feederz with Mark Roderick (credited as "Mark Edible") and D.H. Peligro (as "Darrin Henley"), with whom he recorded "Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?". In Situationist style, the album sleeve was covered in sandpaper. In 1986, Teachers in Space was released, with Jayed Scotti replacing Peligro on drums. Scotti, a partner of Winston Smith, created album art for bands such as the Dead Kennedys, MDC and Crucifucks. The cover of "Teachers In Space" featured a photo of the Challenger disaster. Later in the decade, Discussion again disbanded the Feederz, but by then their orbit of influence had expanded, including Kurt Cobain among their fans. A fan's post to the Nirvana newsgroup, alt.music.nirvana, revealed that Cobain had taken a bumper sticker from the Feederz' Teachers in Space LP and stuck it on his all-black Fender Stratocaster, made famous at the 1991 Reading Festival in England, where Nirvana performed with Sonic Youth. The sticker read: "Vandalism: Beautiful As A Rock In A Cop's Face". In small type underneath were these words: "Courtesy of Feederz: Office of Anti-Public Relations". (This bumper sticker message would become the title of Feederz' comeback release more than a decade later.) Cobain's use of this guitar in the 1991: The Year Punk Broke film later that year indirectly lent even more exposure to the Feederz (until Cobain smashed it into pieces at a Paris show the following spring).

Feederz reformed in 2002 and released "Vandalism: Beautiful As A Rock In A Cop's Face", engineered by Jack Endino. This lineup included Ben Wah on drums and Denmark Vesey on bass, both from Seattle. They toured throughout 2003. Discussion and Wah both relocated to Los Angeles in 2003-2004, and continued the band, playing with bassist Brant Boling, until 2007, when they played their last show at Mondo-Video-A-Go-Go. In 2017, Feederz once again reformed, with Discussion joined by early members Clark and D.H. Peligro. The trio recorded four songs with producer Cris Kirkwood of Meat Puppets, two of which were released by Slope Records on April 15 as the "WWHD: What Would Hitler Do?" EP.

Jesus 7'' (1980)

01 - Jesus Entering From The Rear
02 - Stop You're Killing Me
03 - Avon Lady
04 - Terrorist

Living Room Tape 1979 (1983)

01 - Subscription (Cut)
02 - Unknown Title
03 - Mommy's Gone
04 - Dead Bodies
05 - Avon Lady
06 - R.U. 19
07 - Jesus
08 - Smile
09 - Peter Gunn
10 - Terrorist
11 - Stop You're Killing Me
12 - Destruction Unit
13 - Vulvateen

Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss? (1984)

01 - Have You Never Been Mellow
02 - Imitation Of Life
03 - Bionic Girl
04 - Terrorist
05 - Day By Day
06 - 1984
07 - Burn Warehouse Burn
08 - Jesus
09 - Games
10 - Subscription
11 - Stayfree
12 - Dead Bodies
13 - Gut Rage
14 - Destruction Unit
15 - L-O-V-E - Another Damp Thing
16 - Love In The Ruins
17 - Fuck You

Teachers In Space (1986)

01 - Intro
02 - Psychward
03 - Lobster Quadrille
04 - New Crime
05 - Fire
06 - Crawl Space
07 - Intermission
08 - Taking The Night
09 - 50 Years
10 - You're So Stupid
11 - Lost Patrol
12 - Cancer Ward
13 - Outro

Vandalism: Beautiful As A Rock In A Cop's Face (2002)

01 - Break It All
02 - No Shopping
03 - Bend Over Beethoven
04 - Arizona Baked Hyena Tripe
05 - Fuck You
06 - Owned
07 - Burning MP3s
08 - Mothra
09 - One Of Us
10 - Avon Lady
11 - Off The Pigs
12 - Why Don't You Just Die
13 - Aborted Jesus
14 - Stop You're Killing Me
15 - Jesus

WWHD: What Would Hitler Do? (2017)

01 - Stealing
02 - Sabotage

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