I knew this out there kid who ran a punk/metal newszine back in the day (1993?). GG Allen sent him a letter covered in poop. He took said letter and put it in a baggy and hung it on his wall with pride....I remember thinking, "Dude even if Ray Bradbury took a dump I wouldn't put it on a wall."
I know it’s mostly just a shock-rock act but I actually quite enjoy listening to GG Allin now and then. He’s better than you’d think. His cover of Carmelita is genuinely good.
In the early-ish days he tried to ruin quite a few gigs others were having, but it always backfired because everyone was much smahtah than him, and unless his brother was playing he'd eventually just ooze away. Best memory was Talia Zedek mocking him during a set, channeling Maurice Chevalier.
Saw the Murder Junkies without him and it was some of the worst shit I've ever seen. And some losers stole our drummers kit out of the storage room at the venue.
I was DJing in Café Soundgarden in Amsterdam a few weeks ago, and played Expose Yourself to Kids. Right after Wholesale Murder by The Child Molesters.
Nobody cared. No complaints. No fights. No chaos. No glasses thrown or people leaving.
I feel like when the singer's name is out front, this argument is especially stupid. No one's going around lamenting not being able to hear The Heartbreakers without Tom Petty or Johnny Thunders.
GG wasn't a terrible lead singer. He was a terrible *person* but a pretty good lead singer. At least the time I saw them. He did stuff his feces in a woman's mouth and slam her head into the stage but she came back to the front of the stage so she couldn't have been too upset by it.
I once had a nice long conversation with GG about restaurants and bars in Chicago. I had no idea who he was, but my friends were freakin’ out: “that was GG Allin!” I didn’t believe them. But later, there he was onstage, singing about murder while shoving a mic up his ass. It’s a wacky world, kids!
The only thing I remember about the Murder Junkies isn't the music or even the band name, it is the Talk Soup clips. If your band is primarily known for Talk Soup clips during your heyday, you are not succeeding as a band.
it would have been an incredible bit for them to record a “solo” album and have it be perfectly adequate but kind of mid, like The Rumour’s album without Graham Parker.
Mike Patton is a force of nature. He has that same kind of transcendental insanity that Syd Barrett possessed. But Mike never went so far off the rails that his career train-wrecked, too!
Why I remember the controversy they sparked back in the day at the Newport Folk festival. I can recall Pete Seeger beseeching them not to go electric, but they did anyway. Hold on a second, I think I may have my lead singers mixed up here.
Ha! His commit to the bit performance art was method acting at its most intense. In the immortal words of GG "Bite it, you scum!" With outside the mainstream love, of course.
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Nowadays he would be a Trump advisor.
Nobody cared. No complaints. No fights. No chaos. No glasses thrown or people leaving.
I guess Europe is not collapsing under wokism.
A very famous fashion choice from the late 1930s.
- Dave Chappelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3XAmdvYOzA
Imagine my surprise when I found out that "somehow" Anthony's voice had been suppressed in the mix and I'd been hearing John's voice.
Then I heard the remix version with Anthony's voice reinstated.
Imagine my surprise that it sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgk1yhp40wc
"Hey now girls I want lip service, I dont wear a uniform I'm not in the service"?
IMHO
Outlaw scumf#@k is a totally underappreciated tune
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