Carlos Cadona - With Dead Kennedys

With Dead Kennedys

6025 joined the Dead Kennedys in July, 1978. Singer Jello Biafra has stated "a week before our first gig we got a guitarist who called himself 6025 and he left about 6 months later". Ultimately, 6025 parted with the band in March, 1979.

6025's guitar playing with the band was minimal and generally shadowed the bassline of Klaus Flouride, with lead guitarist East Bay Ray doing the majority of guitar work. 6025's writing style focused on chromatic, quirky time signature melodies and harmonies, creating polyrhythms against the other instruments. 6025's lyrics were notably different from the rest of the band's repertoire, focusing on strange, nonsensical imagery and a morbid, fatalistic tone as opposed to vocalist/songwriter Jello Biafra's political satire.

He wrote seven songs with the band - "Ill in the Head" and "Forward to Death", both of which appear on the band's debut album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables; "Short Songs", "Gaslight", and "Straight A's", which appear on the live album Live at the Deaf Club; "Mutations of Today", which appears on The 1978 Demos; and "Religious Vomit", which appears on the EP In God We Trust, Inc..

He ultimately departed before the recording of any studio albums, but does guest as a second guitarist on the studio recording of "Ill in the Head". Following his departure, the Dead Kennedys auditioned numerous second guitarists and even—having been inspired by The Screamers -- considered replacing him with a keyboardist. Ultimately, the band decided to remain a four-piece.

It was heavily rumored that 6025 did not leave of his own accord, but was ousted due to musical differences. According to East Bay Ray, 6025 left the band because he wanted to play prog-rock, and felt the band's style was "too raunchy, too rock". In an interview, Klaus Fluoride confirmed that 6025 and Jello Biafra became heavily opposed to each other's song-writing ideas, and after an argument culminating in a near fist-fight, 6025 chose to depart.

6025's final live appearance with the Dead Kennedys was on March 3, 1979. The performance was taped and was officially released in 2004 as Live at the Deaf Club.