I first heard a GG Allin record in 1983, although he had trashing around since 1978. I heard the opening of "Drink Fight & Fuck" and I knew this was the band for my sick tastes. From then on whenever my band did gigs around Chicago or Wisconsin I'd make sure everyone knew what GG Allin was all about. The reaction was always the same; "oh man, that guy sucks." So I would just flip 'em off and turn up my tape player and drown out their blatant impotency and scared punk rock conformity and say eat my fuc. It's now 1987 and GG Allin is still my fave piece of deformed ugly trash and I've gotten to know the boy/man behind the legend.
At the beginning of his 1985 "Hated In the Nation" US tour, I picked GG up at the Peoria bus station and we then departed to the dark underbelly and very real world of our own insane and outright destructive nature. Here was the hellraising scumfuc ready for and adrenaline and drug overdose with a self-inflicted & nauseating crash landing. Within two hours of drug and massive liquor abuse, GG beat the shit out of me and left my mohawked brain to scramble on the cockroach infested rat's nest that we were dwelling in. A satisfying beginning to a hate relationship that has lasted to this day.
I experienced GG on his US tour in August 1986 as I was the opening act. Lots of blood, violence, nudity, defecation, unconsciousness, puke, rape, emergency room visits, and just plain real ugliness. I experienced the disasters, scars, the gay clubs and the transsexuals, shit odors, long bus rides, public cunnilingus, disillusionment, theft, tension, riots, skins, nazis, guns and near death, all in 3 weeks.
The underground music scene is a fast paced, exhausting world to keep up with. Especially when you're running with a real animal. GG Allin is the hard core. Noncompromising rock in a world where compromise runs rampant in daily lives. GG is the one who goes all the way and who actually wants to die on stage. GG's music and personality match his tattoos - hard, savage and primal, sorta like a knife being twisted in an open wound. Maybe we should ask the kid in Chicago how his head felt after GG beat his face with a microphone stand. Or the crowd at NYC's Cat Club who ran for their lives as GG attacked. When you see GG you'd better expect the real thing. GG's girls sure get the real thing. His last girlfriend was still in the hospital as I write this and what about the one he & Bobby Ebz raped and tortured in N.J., or the one they raped in Philly? GG's track record speaks for itself. Just don't invite him to your next party. It's dangerous.
Bloody F. Mess, Peoria, IL
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