He's not just the drummer for the legendary Dead Kennedys. Oh, nooooo. This enjoyable fellow is a regular punk rock Renaissance Man--fronting his own band Peligro, starting Dirrty Records, writing an autobiography, filming a movie...he's even recently been approached by "The Jimmy Kimmel Show." He's also animated, charming, and dead sexy. What follows is the CREAM of our conversation.

CIRCLE: So, you just got back from Turkey playing with Dead Kennedys. What was it like?

PELIGRO: Turkey was, oh WOW...it was a veritable cornucopia of a cultural experience. You got the Muslim side, the Asian side, and the European side. And how they coexist, I don't KNOW. But it seems to kind of work over there. Aside from just doing the gig, we checked out some of the mausoleums, the Blue Mosque, and this 1600-year old church...I was kind of speechless. It was IN-SANE.

CIRCLE: What was the crowd like when you played? Did they know Dead Kennedys?

PELIGRO: They were just WILD, they were incredible. That was the first big rock concert EVER in Turkey. This was a 2-day festival with the Del Fuegos, The Cardigans, Simple Minds, Pet Shop Boys...

CIRCLE: Oh, wow!

PELIGRO: Yeah, it was like, "How did we get in this mix?!"

CIRCLE: Heh. Hey, did you go to a Turkish prison?

PELIGRO: (laughing) You know, NO, I did not do NONE of THAT. I was NOT trying to go there. American prisons are bad ENOUGH, right? But, I'll try to do that next time.

PELIGRO: We recorded a new record...we should be getting this record out as soon as we can, man. And we'll be out there touring immediately after. So, Dead Kennedys will be like on and off and on and off and on and off again, and Peligro will be on full force.

CIRCLE: Do you miss drumming while you're fronting Peligro, since you play guitar and sing?

PELIGRO: Uhhh, not as much because it keeps you very busy, and over time I just become more geared to becoming a frontman. So it kind of fits me...after doing it for a while it's like, "Oh, I gotta take a back seat to playing drums." Which is my forte anyway. I LOOOVE playing drums. I love being a drummer. It's pretty powerful being the person that holds the band together. But you gotta be centered.

CIRCLE: Gimme the best drummer joke you've ever heard.

PELIGRO: Uhhh... (laughing) I don't know that many...What do you call a drummer with no girlfriend?

CIRCLE & PELIGRO: (in unison) HOMELESS!

PELIGRO: You got some more?

CIRCLE: What do Ginger Baker and 7-11 coffee have in common?

PELIGRO: They're both outta time?

CIRCLE: They both suck without Cream.

PELIGRO: (laughing) OH! Ahhh, that's funny!

CIRCLE: Yeah...

PELIGRO: I'm also going to be writing a book!

CIRCLE: Oh, really?

PELIGRO: The Autobiography of D. H. Peligro. The ups and downs, the trials, the mishaps, the BOTTOM, and the rise to the top--well, not the TOP, but...the rise and fall and the struggle back up again. And I'm supposed to be doing a film called "The Four Horsemen"...after the 1st of the year we'll start filming that.

CIRCLE: How did that come about, you doing a movie?

PELIGRO: Just kind of hangin' in Hollywood for a while. It just kind of got offered to me. I did a couple of little short films with some art students, and I don't know if that helped or got around somehow, but it became a vibe. People always say that to me: "You look like an actor. I always thought you'd be an actor, not a drummer." It's like, "Errr, ooookay." There's some talk to be being some "man on the street" on the Jimmy Kimmel Show.

CIRCLE: Really?

PELIGRO: Yeah! They could be calling any day, I don't know...

CIRCLE: What are your all-time favorite movies?

PELIGRO: I love "The Matrix" and all that knucklehead shit..."Saving Private Ryan" was actually very instrumental in me writing a song called "Unholy Visions Of War" (which we shortened to "Unholy") on the new record that's coming out. That was one of my favorite movies. I liked "Windtalkers"...I loved "Pulp Fiction."

CIRCLE: Oh yeah, me too. What was the first concert you ever saw?

PELIGRO: When I was a child, my brother, like, stole some tickets from this one dude and we went to the Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis and saw Emerson, Lake, & Palmer.

CIRCLE: Was it good? Do you remember?

PELIGRO: Yeah, I had never seen anything like that...the LIGHTS, the SOUND, it was so BIG, I was like, *gasp!* And I was already starting to play drums, and it was just COLOSSAL and MASSIVE. I could barely speak! And there were people smokin' weed and doin' their thing, and I was just like, "Look at this power! Look at all these people! Look at those DRUMS!" I was just taken in.

CIRCLE: That guy did have a crazy drum set-up, didn't he?

PELIGRO: Yeah, he had a GONG and just TOMS EVERYWHERE, like, WOW...and then it was just on to see Kiss and Black Sabbath...then I just went to concerts all the time.

CIRCLE: Have you been to any good shows lately?

PELIGRO: One of the last shows I saw that I really liked was Rammstein. (We both say "Rammstein" in thick German accents a few times for good measure) Black Flag just played here...it was not that good.

CIRCLE: Oh...

PELIGRO: Shhhhhh!

CIRCLE: Hmmmm...

PELIGRO: I KNOW you're gonna put that in your thing...well it WASN'T good. I don't give a FUCK, I said it!

CIRCLE: I'm putting that right in there, man, in big bold letters: IT WASN'T VERY GOOD.

PELIGRO: (laughing) Yeah, well, the truth kind of slipped out there. But they know that. I'm sure they do. If they don't, they will.

CIRCLE: But no, tell me how you really feel.

PELIGRO: Oh, okay, I was holding back.

CIRCLE: What was the worst job you ever had?

PELIGRO: Delivering pizzas in San Francisco when I didn't know the city at ALL...people would get their pizza HOURS late. Construction when I didn't know how to DO construction...and painting houses on swing stages was pretty bad, but I kind of liked it.

CIRCLE: I have one final question...how much would my editor and I have to pay you to have a threesome with us?

PELIGRO: Oooooohhhh, uhhhhh, I'll do it for NOTHING, Stefanie!!!!

CIRCLE: Tee-hee (half- nervous, half-flirty)

PELIGRO: What time do I have to be there, Stefanie?

CIRCLE: Um, how's tomorrow?

PELIGRO: Okay, let me go down to the airport and get my ticket...