GG RIP. The baddest of all rock-and-roll bad boys, punk singer GG Allin, succumbed to a cocaine/heroin overdose after a performance in New York last week. Allin, who had long threatened to off himself on stage, made incredibly nasty music and took rock performance as far out as it's ever gone, regularly endangering his own health and that of his audiences. Rest assured that somewhere in rock-and-roll heaven, GG is throwing piles of shit at Elvis.
On a more upbeat but still bizarre note, Dwarves guitarist Hewhocannotbenamed has become the first rock musician to rise from the dead. According to a release issued by Sub Pop last week, the guitarist's alleged death in a barroom fight this spring was a hoax perpetrated by the band "because they thought it would be a punk-rock thing to do." Sub Pop itself was duped, and the label wasn't amused: the same release announced that the bad have been dropped. Perhaps getting the last word on the subject, the Dwarves' set at the Middle East last week (opening for Flipper) included a rousing version of their anthem "I Don't Give a Fuck About Nobody But Me."
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