D. H. Peligro

Red Hot Chili Peppers

In August 1988, Peligro joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers replacing drummer Jack Irons. Peligro helped to write some songs on the band's fourth album, Mother's Milk, although he did not perform on the album. Due to his ongoing drug and alcohol issues, the band decided to fire Peligro in November 1988.

Other bands Peligro also played briefly with The Hellations, Jungle Studs, Nailbomb, The Feederz, Lock-Up, The Too Free Stooges, Off! and SSI. Peligro was the frontman for his band called Peligro which released three albums: Peligro (released in 1995 on Biafra's Alternative Tentacles record label, but deleted from the catalog in 2001), Welcome to America and Sum of Our Surroundings, which won Rock Album of the Year from the American Independent Music Awards. Peligro's sound is known to be an eclectic combination of punk, reggae, funk and heavy metal. D. H. Peligro has also fronted the bands Reverend Jones and the Cool Aid Choir and Al Sharpton's Hair and the Hellions. He appears as an interview subject in the 2003 documentary Afro-Punk. In 2020, Peligro recorded the song "Power is Taken" with Moby, which was also included on Moby's album All Visible Objects.

Death On October 28, 2022, Peligro died in his Los Angeles home. Police reported that he died from trauma to the head, caused by an accidental fall. On May 2, 2023, Peligro's official cause of death was released, revealing that his death was due to an overdose from a mixture of heroin and fentanyl. Peligro also had non-small-cell lung cancer at the time of his death.

Discography

Dead Kennedys

In God We Trust, Inc. (1981) Plastic Surgery Disasters (1982) Frankenchrist (1985) Bedtime for Democracy (1986) Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (1987) DMPO's on Broadway (2000) Mutiny on the Bay (2001) The Early Years Live (2001) In God We Trust, Inc.: The Lost Tapes (2003) Live at the Deaf Club (2004) Milking the Sacred Cow (2007) Original Singles Collection (2014)

Jungle Studs Jungle Studs (1986)

Peligro Peligro (1995) Welcome To America (2000) Sum Of Our Surroundings (2004)

Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk (1989) (co-wrote "Sexy Mexican Maid", "Stone Cold Bush" and "Taste the Pain")

Nailbomb Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide (1995) (drums on "Police Truck (Dead Kennedys Cover)", "Exploitation (Doom Cover)" and "World of Shit")