Elect Joe Keithley a.k.a. Joey Shithead of DOA and the Green Party in Canada B.C.

from Dangerous Minds:

West Coast punk legend Joey “Shithead” Keithley of D.O.A. is running for office in Burnaby, B.C. Keithley will stand as Green Party candidate for Member of the Legislative Assembly in the May 9 election. His promise:

If I am elected I will be a strong voice for regular folks, the same way I have been in DOA. These are some of the issues I will fight for: affordable housing, creation of jobs through green technology and alternative energy, lower cost daycare, affordable post-secondary education and income equality. I will also stand against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline that threatens BC’s beautiful coast with potential spills of dirty tar sands oil from Alberta. I will also work towards making the 1% pay their fair share.

Below is the “elevator pitch” from Keithley’s GoFundMe page.

My Photograph of Joey Spithead, as frontman of the group D.O.A.
at the Starwood in West Hollywood circa 1980:



Go Get'em Joey!

from Joey:

Most folks don’t know this, but I went to university to become a civil rights lawyer, but I soon started D.O.A. That act turned me into an informal politician my entire adult life, now I am working on becoming an elected politician. I am running for the BC Green Party in my hometown of Burnaby, BC this May 9th for the office of MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly), basically the equivalent of a state congressperson.

If I am elected I will be a strong voice for regular folks, the same way I have been in DOA. These are some of the issues I will fight for: affordable housing, creation of jobs through green technology and alternative energy, lower cost daycare, affordable post-secondary education and income equality. I will also stand against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline that threatens BC’s beautiful coast with potential spills of dirty tar sands oil from Alberta. I will also work towards making the 1% pay their fair share.

I will fight against the corruption in our political system that has become standard fare from the NDP and the BC Liberals. I want your vote, my vote, everybody’s vote to count, so we have real democracy.

F*cked Up Donald’: Punk legends, D.O.A. eviscerate Trump

from Dangerous Minds:



Active since 1978, Vancouver’s punk stalwarts D.O.A. are still as pissed off as ever. The group, led by Joey “Shithead” Keithley, remain quite active both musically and politically and are set to release a new single, an ode to one Donald J Trump, titled “Fucked Up Donald.”

The song is a reworking of their 1981 indictment of Ronald Reagan, “Fucked Up Ronnie,” which appeared on their Positively EP and on the Bloodied But Unbowed singles compilation album. Even THAT song was a re-working of a song called “Fucked Up Baby” that Keithly wrote in 1977 for his earlier band The Skulls. The original “Fucked Up Ronnie” is one of D.O.A.‘s most classic songs and this new updated version is just as ripping as the original—like so much so that it actually took me aback a bit.

The 85 second hardcore admonition takes the Donald to task for his anti-Mexican and anti-woman stances as well as his disastrous ideas on foreign policy, and is just an all-around killer slab of meaty punk.

According to the band, they “slammed this frantic piece of ‘Let’s fight this bullshit!’ down in 15 minutes flat” with producer Cecil English (No Means No, D.O.A., Jello Biafra, The Smalls). Cut the shit and start the pit, eh?

The B-side of the single is slated to be D.O.A.‘s cover of Barry McGuire’s immortal and still quite timely, “Eve of Destruction.”

Check out this Dangerous Minds exclusive premier of “Fucked Up Donald”:

 

And for old-time’s-sake, here’s the original “Fucked Up Ronnie”:

 

 

Find more info on D.O.A. at Joe Keithley’s record label website, Sudden Death Records.