The No WTO Combo was a temporary project featuring Jello Biafra on vocals,
formed to protest last fall's WTO meetings in Seattle. Although it seemed
like Biafra was running out of ideas on the last Lard EP, this CD seems to
contradict that theory.


Live opens with a 15-minute spoken word rant from Biafra where he explains
some of the problems of the WTO, and how exciting it is for so many
divergent interest groups to get together to protest it all. After Biafra
delivers his well-conceived spiel, the band breaks into an old Dead
Kennedys song, "Let's Lynch the Landlord." Anyone who doubted Biafra still
had the ferocious energy that made the Dead Kennedys so dear to many of us
will be pleasantly surprised to hear that the Combo's version is just as
good as the original.          


The Combo then launch into two new songs that Biafra composed specifically
for the occasion. Both of them sound like they could've been Dead Kennedys
songs, except that the lyrics specifically place them at the end of the
20th century. It is songs like these that make me wish Biafra would give
up on his electronic dabbling in Lard and start a new hardcore band -- the
songs are that good.


Closing out the EP is the Combo's take on a Biafra/DOA song, "Full Metal
Jacket." Having never been a big DOA fan, I can't comment on how well the
song is played, but it ends the EP quite nicely.


All in all, the only thing to say is that this album will appeal mainly to
Dead Kennedys fans. It is proof positive that Jello Biafra still has it.