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#201330 by Mike Nobody
Tue Jan 08, 2013 11:58 pm
The No WTO Combo - Electronic Plantation
http://youtu.be/3Csqt-dpFXU


The No WTO Combo was a one-shot punk rock band started by Krist Novoselic (former Nirvana bassist). The band consisted of Jello Biafra (former frontman of Dead Kennedys); guitartist Kim Thayil of Soundgarden; and the rhythm section of Sweet 75, with Gina Mainwal on drums and Novoselic on bass.

They were originally scheduled to play the Showbox November 30, the night before the WTO meeting of 1999 in Seattle, 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.

Novoselic later asked Jack Endino to mix the recordings, resulting in the bands' only release, Live from the Battle in Seattle, distributed by Biafra's record label Alternative Tentacles.

Band members

Jello Biafra – vocals
Kim Thayil – guitar
Krist Novoselic – bass
Gina Mainwal – drums

#201339 by jimmydanger
Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:23 am
That rocks. I saw Jello at The Melvins concert at the Stick a few years ago, he hopped up on stage a did a couple of tunes. Awesome.

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