Peligro made his recorded debut with Lifeless Kennedys on the 1981 EP In God We Belief, Inc., which incorporates their iconic hit “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” and famously marked the band’s first of many references railing in opposition to Ronald Reagan. Peligro’s hardcore drumming model continued in a modified type on the band’s sophomore album, 1982’s Plastic Surgical procedure Disasters, and on by their subsequent string of data: 1985’s Frankenchrist, 1986’s Bedtime for Democracy, and the 1987 compilation album Give Me Comfort or Give Me Loss of life.
Following Lifeless Kennedys break up in December 1986, Peligro briefly joined Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers in 1988. The band was in want of a drummer after the departure of their unique member Jack Irons. As a longtime buddy of the band and former bandmate of Anthony Kiedis and Flea of their joke challenge Three Little Butt Hairs, Peligro fortunately stepped as much as the plate. He carried out with Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers and contributed to the songwriting course of for a number of tracks on their fourth album, Mom’s Milk. Peligro can be liable for introducing Kiedis and Flea to then-teenager John Frusciante, who joined as their new guitarist shortly afterwards. In November of that very same yr, Peligro was fired. Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers changed him with Chad Smith a number of weeks later.
In 2001, Ray, Peligro, and Flouride reunited Lifeless Kennedys with Brandon Cruz changing Biafra. Aside from a one-year absence to handle health-related points, Peligro was part of the band’s total reunion effort, from a number of excursions on by to dwell album releases like Mutiny on the Bay, Reside on the Deaf Membership, and DK 40.
Throughout the later years of his profession, Peligro carried out with different artists each dwell and within the studio, together with Moby, Feederz, the Aliens sans Roky Erickson, and Nailbomb, amongst others. He additionally shaped his personal band named Peligro, which launched a self-titled album, Welcome to America, and Sum of Our Environment. Moreover, he fronted the bands Reverend Jones and the Cool Help Choir, the Hellions, and Al Sharpton’s Hair.
Peligro was an early Black icon within the punk rock scene, and was regularly outspoken about his experiences with racism whereas touring, together with being denied entry into golf equipment his bands have been scheduled to play. “Music would take me to locations I wouldn’t usually go, and it’s tremendous when you have been onstage, however once you bought off, they’d get drunk and name you every kind of names,” he informed LA Weekly. “You go down South, you go throughout the Midwest, then folks have been pondering that it was music for white folks, or I used to be the janitor or safety or one thing. You bought to expertise the racism firsthand, as a result of all people wasn’t as open-minded as they have been in San Francisco. It’s a bit extra open and accepted as we speak, however there’s nonetheless pockets of people that need to use punk rock to create hate music. That angers me to no finish.”
