The best concert video ever released? The Duke seems to think so.
The ever so fetching and terribly chic Parental Advisory warning which graces the cover of Raw, Brutal… has never seemed so perfunctory, so listless, so flaccid. Even if this opus of shit-drenched, blood-soaked mania were to be graced with a meter-wide wrap-around government warning, it would still seem inadequate.…
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26 - JD
There is one thing you are missing the point to....
It's his artistry is PUNK!
punk is all about out of tune guitars, the lack of good timing and singers who can't sing.
if you don't like it fair enough, but GG Allin was most definately a punk ARTIST
unless you don't see punk as an artform he would not be an artist
PUNK isn't just rebellious, like fuck the government!
it's a rebellious music genre that goes against what other music genres are based upon.
such as Talent.
Good punk bands depend on originality and making their own melody
m/
27 - NASTY MASTY*
G.G. WOULDN'T GIVE TWO FUCKS
WHAT ANYBODY HAD TO SAY ABOUT
HIM. HE DID WHATEVER THE FUCK
HE WANTED NO MATTER WHAT THE
CONSEQUENCES.NOW THAT'S PUNK!
28 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
JD and Nasty, thanks for the comments. I agree, GG wouldn't give a flying baboon for what folks think of him, but the fact he's still being so enthusiastically debated would, i imagine, give him cause for a celebratory shit-toss, wherever he may be.
I don't neccesarily agree that he did whatever he wanted regardless of consequences. I think a lot more thought went into some of his more outrageous antics that we might imagine. But certainly he cared little for established values, other than how in the hell he might best blast them to blazes.
Usually by flinging a shit or two.
29 - KingX
Wel, I see the assaults getting back and forth in here wether GG was an artist or not..
To me he was an artist.. an real artist..
sure when he started the whole "I am god, stan and jesus all rolled into one" crap I though he wen't a bit over the top..
but the fact is GG also ahs given us so much and created so much in terms of punk rock music.. just listens to always is and always shall be album with thej abbers..
its one of the best punk rock alubms in history..
so many bands today try and sound like that era of GG allin.. but fails alot..
anotehr thing that makes me think this was his life more than just an act is that most bands (like 95% of them) goes down in temp as more famous they get..
he on the other hand wen't the opposite way.. he speeded up and up and up.. got more and more outragous.
his hatred towards society (and himself) just boiled over in the end..
now that to me is not an act.. it was what he belived and stood for..
he was an true artist.. not too many todays bands can say they are that..
singing all this "cool" stuff in their lyrics but yet they can't stand for them in real life..
btw sorry if there is spelling mistakes everywhere.. english isn't my best language... =)
30 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
KingX, thanks for the comments. I agree, i don't think GG was putting on an act, and i explained this in my Review Of Hated - GG Allin And The Murder Junkies. I'm still fairly unsure what i think of his music, although i have said before that the track Hanging Out With Jim is unnaturally catchy. I think there was more to the antics he got up to than just "shock", although certainly that played 99% of a part in it. There was a disturbing nihilism and wrecklessness that ran under it all that means that, evn ten years later, his performances are still captivating and compulsive.
31 - im infected with aids
y'all are some prissy fucks. you watch mtv, you care what people think about you, you own a cell phone.
how dare anyone here call GG a poseur. he was an artist in every sense of the word.
now go back to your little plastic word and be shocked by marilyn manson, enemaM, and britney spears.
you just don't get it.
go urinate on his grave and then jump off an nearby overpass.
GG loves you.
32 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
hey man, thats some righteous anger right there.
A word, though; maybe calling folks prissy fucks and so on is the kind of narrow-minded thinking thayt has folks questioning GG's artistic worth. Maybe those kinds of generalisations aren't any better than the ones you attack?
Who knows?
And i haven't watched MTV since UGLY KID JOE had Everything About You in the charts. At least a moonth ago, that must have been.
33 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
also, i don't mean to be pedantic, but the "own a cell phone" line seems a tad redundant considering the nature of this discussion.
34 - josip
I myself have been a big gg fan for years now. GG always embodied everything that i love in punkrock. not so much the politics, even though i am political in my punkness (notice the irony, please, lol). It's the rage that comes from depravation, insecurity projected into mindless violence and most of all having fun combined with shocking the moral majoroty. With gg this goes also for shocking not only the mainstream moral majoroty, but also a lot of the hippies waiwing the punk flag.
About the music, his classic release "Always was, is and shall be" is a classic with good reason. It's fun and in your face punk rock'n'roll, what else would you want from a punk record? Also his great songs like i wanna fuck myself, you hate me and i hate you, or sluts in the city just make it fun being a punk, not really caring about what pretentious crap the crass or the people from profane existence are trying to shove down your throat as proper punk.
35 - Babbsy
I thought it was a fucking great read Duke. It's the best description of G.G Allin i've read on the net all day and i've been through a few, i tell ya. And it's only a review of a DVD! If anyone ever asks me who the psycho was i'd send 'em here mate! Well done matey!
36 - Eric Olsen
this is an absolutely classic review, one of my favorite of any kind
37 - alex
people keep comparing gg allin to other people, like jim morrison, or sid vicious or other bands. GG allin started in the late 70's, he was around when punk started, he always did that type of shit. also HE ISNT THESE OTHER PEOPLE. those other people are fucking pussies next to him. HE WAS AND IS what punk rock is, total disregard for anything, and doing whatever the fuck you want and not giving a fuck what anyone thinks. and for the dude that wrote the article you say you've been in green day pits, who cares, green day is a bunch of pussies too, their pits are nothing. and most peopel on this dont seem like they know anything about him, they just know what hes done. you should read some interviews people have done with him. youll think hes less crazy.
38 - GG Allin
FUCK YOU PIG SHIT SLUT FUCKS. YOU LIKE MY FUCKING MUSIC YOU FUCKING COWARD PIECE OF SHIT FUCK PIG INARDS.COME RAPE ME YOURSELF YOU FUCKING SLEF MUTILATING PIECE OF SHIT FUCK SLUT CUNT HOE BAGGING SHIT EATING INBREAD MOTHER SLUT WHORE FUCK SUCK COCK HORSE SHIT FUCK TOOL FLAMER SHIT FAGGIT FUCK I FUCKING HATE FAGGITS HOLY FUCKING SHIT THEY FUCKING SUCK OFF OTHER MEN NOT TO SAY I HAVN'T BUT THERE FUCKING FAGGITS JESUS FYUCKING SUCKS ANARCY FUCKING RULES FUCK THE SUPREME POWER FUCKING BITCH SLUT.
39 - Neo Nazi
I LOVE HITLER YOUR A POSER SUCK MY FUCKING UNDERSIZED NAZI DONG YOU PIECE OF SHIT WHITE TRASH SELF MUTILATING PIECE OF SHIT. TIT SUCKLING COW JUNKING HORSE ASS PLUGGING FINGER PLUNGING FUCK SHIT SLUT COCK CUM GUZLING HORE BITCH SLUT FUCK HOE SLUT COCK LOVING FAGGIT MUNCHING BUTT SUCKLING AND MUNCHING HORSE COCK SUCKING MORONIC SATANISTIC GANGSTA WANA BE BASTERDATED SHIT FACED CUNT SWABED PRICK LOVING ANIMAL RAILING HOMO EROTIC FAGGIT JUICER.
40 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
god almighty! that was some demented nihilstic comedy poetry right there. i was hearin bongos in my head. what the hell is "finger plunging"?? whatever it is, i wanna do a course!! i wanna learn! i'll be the best finger plunger ever plunged a finger, fucker!
41 - Alex S.
Duke:
I know it's getting repetitive, but damn I loved your GG 'op-ed'. I'm not a punk rocker, don't know shit about punk, but you nailed it perfectly - I only just recently decided once and for all to see what the all the hype is about and started checking him out on 'youtube.' Well ... my curiosity has turned into an obsession. I can't stop watching the fucker - and damned if some of the songs aren't solid as hell ..... 'Die when you Die' and 'Bite it you Scum' come to mind. He was the walking, talking embodiment of truth being stranger than fiction, he was the real deal in every sense of the word, the personification of the Reagan Revolution's rancid underbelly; the most intense, outrageous perfomer rock and roll has ever seen and I'm so fucking glad I never actually witnessed him in person. I would have had nightmares for weeks.