FEEDERZ

The Feederz are a punk rock band originally hailing from Arizona. They are infamous for their song Jesus Entering from the Rear which featured on Alternative Tentacles' Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation, and for their provocative album covers. The Feederz have strong Situationist tendencies, and occasionally verge into anarchism; their songs are highly critical of government, consumerism, and religion.

Lead singer Frank Discussion is known for his "subvertisements" or "derailments", an adaption of the situationist tactic of detournement. Drummer Jayed Scotti was art partners with Winston Smith and created album art for bands such as the Dead Kennedys, MDC, and Crucifucks.

History

The Feederz were formed in 1977 by Frank Discussion and Clear Bob (Dan Clark). Art Nouveau (John Vivier) later joined the group as their drummer. Before performing publicly, the Feederz issued a press release which the local media mistook as a terrorist communique. At their first show, Frank Discussion caused a panic by firing blanks from an AR-15 assault rifle into the audience. In 1980, the band released their first recording, a 4-song EP Jesus.

In 1982, Frank Discussion wrote "Bored With School", a diatribe against school and work posing as an announcement from the Arizona Department of Education, and distributed five thousand copies to local high schools. He fled Arizona to escape arrest for this incident and settled in San Francisco.

In 1984, Discussion reformed the Feederz with Mark Roderick and D.H. Peligro, with whom he recorded Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?. In Situationist style, the album was covered in sandpaper. In 1986, Teachers In Space was released with Jayed Scotti replacing Peligro on drums. 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, for among their many fans was at least one famous rock icon, the late Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's frontman until his controversial death (ruled a suicide) on April 5, 1994. A fan's post to the Nirvana newsgroup, alt.music.nirvana, claimed Cobain took a bumper sticker from an early Feederz LP or EP and then proudly stuck it on his all-black Fender Stratocaster, made famous at the 1991 Reading Festival (see Reading and Leeds Festivals) in England, where Nirvana performed with Sonic Youth. The sticker read, "Vandalism: As beautiful as a rock in a cop's face", and in small type underneath were these words: "Courtesy of the Feederz: Office of Anti-Public Relations". (The bumper sticker message would become the title of their comeback release more than a decade later). Cobain's use of this guitar in the "Year Punk Broke" video later that year indirectly lent even more exposure to the Feederz (until Cobain smashed it into pieces at a Paris show the following Spring).

The Feederz reformed in 2002 and released Vandalism: Beautiful as a Rock in a Cop's Face. This lineup included Ben Wah on drums and Denmark Vesey playing bass, both from Seattle. They toured throughout 2003.

Rumors persist that Frank Discussion is now in Southern Mexico, spending much of his time moving among the EZLN (Zapatistas) and the Oaxacan based APPO who are in open revolt against the Mexican government.

NEWS
Frank Discussion is also known to be in the process of making a movie called Amor y Saqueo (Love and Looting), a charming tale about a young girl who finds happiness through wholesale destruction, theft, sabotage and, of course, looting.
Feederz - Taking the Night. The first Feederz music video extravaganza: