GG Allin is basically a very bad person whom our criminal justice system has been desperately attempting to help. At great expenditures of time and resources, our government has provided Mr. Allin with a public trial, at which he wasn't even allowed to pretend to defend himself, and now our government provides him with a home in a Michigan penal institution. There Mr. Allin has the opportunity to ponder the nature of his crimes, as well as play basketball with Black Amerika's most robust individuals, use the prison's extensive propaganda library, say "no" to drugs and "maybe" to sucking dick, and collect rejection letters from major record labels (except that cutting-edge entity, Enigma Records), all at the taxpayers' expense.
But what did this ingrate do to have such attention lavished upon him? Why has he resisted the loving caress of our watered-down version of Big Brother? And what does the future hold for him, if there even is a future?
A while back, GG raped, mutilated, and almost killed a groupie during a three-day bash in Michigan. At least that's what the groupie says, but she has already established herself as a total liar. First she went to the cops and told them three niggers did it. She wishes! Then she said her brother's friends did it. Next, she said GG Allin did it. The Amerikan legal system decided that GG's spot on that accusatory roulette wheel should stop at the top, so they rigged it accordingly. That's preventive justice for ya!
Prior to his arrest, GG Allin had a series of bands that were the premiere scum rock acts of our time. The bands were very good and their primary claim to fame, besides the presence of Deathtrip filmmaker Richard Kern on guitar and Louisiana State Senator David Duke's brother-in-law Sherman on bass, was that GG was going to kill himself at any moment, right in your face. People flocked to his shows in anticipation of witnessing his suicide. But rather than kill himself, GG turned his attention on the crowd, attempting to kill them instead. That behavior got him banned almost everywhere it is possible for a rock band to play. Somehow he could occasionally find a place to perform, getting arrested and leaving the club owners with a slew of legal and moral headaches forever after.
Another thing - GG and his bands could kick almost anyone's ass, and that come in handy for his sort of stage show. There were lots of fights due to jealousy, etc. After all, what faggot wants his lover looking into GG's asshole?
No doubt you, dear reader, already know this; you probably even own one of his numerous records. You probably even like some of his stuff. You would probably even like the big new Enigma release, except that Enigma prudently caved in to government pressure and dropped him from the label.
So here are GG's triumphs and tragedies, in his own words, as only he can tell it. Don't make the same mistakes he made - keep your own little rock groups clean and your own little dicks out of the government's memory hole.
SECONDS: Of all the bad things people can say about you, or have said about you, what's the thing that bothers you the most?
ALLIN: There's actually nothing that bothers me. People have said so many things; if it bothers people, fuck 'em. I really don't give a shit because I don't care about people anyway. If they gotta talk about me, they must not have much of a life of their own. Besides, if they said something, it's probably true anyway. I might've fucked 'em over, I or may have fucked their little daughter. I don't know, I don't really care. The things that bothers me most is that it's not really what people say about me, it's the way that people tend to ignore the fact that I exist. Especially people in the so-called hip music press, where if you're not Sonic Youth or a Dinosaur Jr., you really don't exist because you're not cool or something. That's so phony to me. The whole fuckin' underground thing is just so fucked up right now. Actually, I consider myself to be the commanding leader of the underground, and I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who feel the same way. But when these people write about me they always say "Oh, this is a guy that's got a fuckin' problem. This guy uses music for his psycho problems." If that's what I'm doing it for, I really don't care.
SECONDS: Are you speaking about anyone in particular?
ALLIN: Like I just said, I don't give a shit about anybody. I don't have to name one name, I can almost put the whole fuckin' universe in the same pile of shit, and say fuck 'em all. The way I look at it - and I've said this before - I look at the world around me as a movie, and I look at myself as being completely outide that realm. I look at myself as a guy walking around with a hammer, just ready to smash the screen. The way I see it, people exist around me, but they're not really there. I feel completely alienated by the whole situation. I'm like the one man army from the outside of what everybody else is thinking or doing.
SECONDS: Do you have the same relationship with your fellow inmates that you do with the general public?
ALLIN: Yeah, I pretty much do. There's some cool people here. Actually, I'll tell you, there are people in here that I'd rather hang out with than people out there 'cause even though you might be hangin' out with somebody who killed people, we're all outcasts in here. We don't exist to the outside world. But yeah, there are some people in here who I'd rather associate with...I'm not very compatible. I guess my demons don't allow me to get along with most people.
SECONDS: Have you gotten a hard time from anybody in there?
ALLIN: Not really. I mean, not anything that's out of the norm. Sure, you've gotta survive, you've gotta watch your back, you've gotta hustle, you've gotta fight. It's the same as being on the streets, if you're strong, you survive, if you're weak, you die. I don't let anybody get at me, and I'll fuck the next guy over first if I have to. That's the attitude you've gotta have. Besides, everybody in here thinks I'm crazy anyway, they don't wanna fuck with me.
SECONDS: For the sake of those readers who might not know what happened to you, why don't you tell us where you are and how you ended up there.
ALLIN: Well, I'm in prison in the state of Michigan, basically for who I am and what Ibelieve in. I would consider myself the living, breathing, death-defying terrorist of rock 'n' roll. I'm in here for a crime, it's labeled as a felonious assault with a dangerous weapon, but what it really comes down to is who I am on a performance level because the crime has nothing to do with it anymore. I was just denied parole, and I quote from a parole board member, "I am a performer for all the wrong reasons." What the fuck does that even have to do with the crime I'm in here for? When I first got arrested, it was for attempted murder; they had no case. Right now, I'm filing a three million dollar lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections, the County Clerk, my lawyer, and the people of the state of Michigan for discrimination 'cause that's clearly what it is. If I have to - you're the first person I've told this to - I am prepared to go on a hunger strike. I've gotta do something. I can sit in here and accept this or I can say "Fuck you." If I die in here, then it's on the state's fuckin' hands. Then let somebody else file a lawsuit and get a whole lot more than three million dollars 'cause I don't belong in here for what they've got me in here for. I mean, I can deal with it, but it's just a clear case of what they're tryin' to do, which is to destroy me. They're tryin' to put me away, they tryin' to keep me away from the media. They don't even like me to do interviews; they try to cut my phone time down. They're trying to push me so far under that people will forget. But people won't forget 'cause I've got too many people out there behind me. If anything, the legend grows. So, they're gonna find themselves really fucked when I go through with this. It's gonna make some waves 'cause I've got too many people out there that will make sure that if I die, somebody pays for it.
SECONDS: Let's back up for a moment; would you describe the crime you've allegedly committed?
ALLIN: I'll tell you, I was invited to a girl's house after I'd met her a couple of times. I'd spent time with her, she knew what I was about, she'd seen me mutilate myself and set myself on fire. She invited me to her house - it was a walk-in party, people were coming in from off the streets that she didn't even know. She had somebody handcuff her to the bed; it wasn't me. The burning of her leg was a complete accident, which they blew out of proportion; we were just tryin' to wake her up. The thing is, when I cut her and drank her blood - she had asked me to give her a tattoo, and there was no india ink, so it's not unusual to give somebody a tattoo by cutting into 'em. I've seen it done and I've done it to myself. So how's that a felonious assault when she asked me to do this, and then had asked everybody in the band to come in and jerk off on her face, and she slept with everyone at the party? I mean, come on, it's so goddamn obvious. Just talkin' about it makes me sick, it makes me want to go out and blow up this whole motherfuckin' state 'cause I'm not in here for the crime - that's what I'm trying to tell you. I had letters from this girl, after the incident, that stated that she wanted to marry me. I had phone calls up until two weeks before I got arrested by the Secret Service. Why the Secret Service was called in, I don't know. See, that's just another thing. They were after me because of my stage shows. They'd been following me before this thing came out. Every time we played in a city and left, the FBI was there looking for me. So, this goes deeper than what you've heard about. They want the public to think it's a felonious assault because if the public knew what these people were trying to get away with and why they've got me in here, there would be an outrage. They want to cover it up.
SECONDS: Tell me about her being burned.
ALLIN: She'd passed out, and nobody could wake her up. We didn't know if she was dead. She'd drank so much, and she'd knocked all the windows out of her house, so we figured that the girl really fucker herself up. I wasn't the only one who lit a match. I took a lighter and lit it under her leg, to try to wake her up. I couldn't revive her any other way. But she made it sound like we threw gasoline on her and set her on fire. That's not what happened, and if she'd have gone to the hospital the next day like we'd told her, she would've been fine. But she waited a fuckin' month, and she gave three different police reports. The first police report she said she got raped by three black men, the second police report she said she was hitchhiking again and somebody tried to rape her; I don't even remember what she said in the third police report. Finally, I don't know what happened, if she snapped or not, but then she pointed the finger at me. Why just me? If you'd seen the letters that she'd written me after this whole incident happened, you would know what kind of girl this was...Unfortunately, not enough people know about my case yet. That's why I'm doing this interview, so I can get people aware of how they have railroaded me, only because of my performances and records. The whole thing comes right down to censorship, and this was long before the censorship thing was a bandwagon item, which it is right now, I was goin' to prison for it. I'm in prison, and now they can keep an eye on me.
SECONDS: Did you want to say her name?
ALLIN: Leslie Morgan, Leslie Marie Morgan. She was from Ann Arbor, I don't know where she is now - probably fucking some other band somewhere. But I've done worse things to other people, and it was no big thing. When people hang out with me, they generally know what to expect. I mean, I'll tell you straight out that I'm not the easiest guy to hang out with. I like pushing women, and I like doing dangerous things. But people come to expect that if they want to hang out with me. If they don't wanna hang out with me, then they can just stay the fuck away, which is generally what people do, and that's why I haven't had a lot of relationships. With a lot of bands, those people tend to walk into my life like they're walkin' into a ring of fire. They want to get there, but when they do get there, they realize that it's just too fuckin' hot, and they want to back the fuck out. So, nobody really sticks around for long periods of time.
SECONDS: In general, being in jail helps one's career.
ALLIN: It may help, but I don't really look at it that way. I look at this as another part of my life. I mean, I've been to jail before. To me, doing a GG Allin tour, a jail and a hospital just goes with it. After a show, it's either you're goin' to jail or goin' to a hospital or you're escaping from the police - there's only three routes out. It was hard to keep bands because it really was a war out there going from one show to another, bleeding from one show to the next. I figure that my tour of 1989 will probably keep me in court for the next ten years. I've got three charges in Connecticut, Wisconsin, and other states I'm not even gonna mention because they don't show up on the computer, and I'm kinda hoping it stays that way.
SECONDS: What else would you like people to know about you?
ALLIN: I'm someone who actually will go to my grave for something I believe in. Most people will talk about it, but I'm actually the guy that will do it. And I think that if you track my record, you will find that everything I say is the truth, and I'm willing to go that distance. I'm not just walkin' on the razor's edge, I'm sleepin' on it, I'm fuckin' on it, and I'm divin' on it.
George Petros
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