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(former

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bassist). The band consisted of

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); guitarist

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; and the rhythm section of Sweet 75, with

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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

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, 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 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

– vocals *

– guitar *

– bass *

– drums

Footnotes

References

External links

Official soundtrack of the Cardboard Turtle Insurrection
American hardcore punk groups Alternative Tentacles artists Anti-globalization organizations Musical groups established in 1999 Musical_groups_disestablished_in_1999 1999 establishments in the United States {{US-punk-band-stub