![]() Born Jesus Chris Allin - because his father Merle had a vision that he was visited by Jesus, who told him his son would go on to great things a la the Messiah, natch - GG Allin was raised in a log cabin without electricity or running water, where his father would dig graves in the basement to threaten his wife and children. It was absolutely terrifying.”Īllin’s upbringing foreshadows his future greatness. One of his knees that night was so cut, that every time he took a step, blood would continually squirt out. She went home with him that night, after he went to the hospital. Then, a girl who was into it came on stage, and he just kicked her in the fucking face, right in the jaw. Eventually, people were trying to pull him off her, but, y’know, there was blood, shit, and glass everywhere! So they finally got him off… and then he went around the audience and started hitting people with the base of the mic stand. It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t consensual, but nobody wanted to touch him. ![]() “He grabbed this blonde girl from the audience, and was just on top of her. “Now there was more room, so he threw a bunch of glass on the floor and began to roll in it,” Mike continues. and his band were playing, and everyone was at least ten feet back. Ten people threw up and went into the other room. I would say at least half of the crowd left right then. I was behind Jello Biafra, so I grabbed onto him and used him as a human shield to guard myself from this. He got down on his knees, sucked it up, and spit it onto the crowd. took the stage, he took this shit that came out like water, and it hit the floor and pulled out in a circle. “The band started playing, and as soon as G.G. “Apparently, GG prepared by drinking whiskey and taking Ex-Lax the entire day,” says Mike. That said, Fat Mike was also present at what he describes at GG’s “most hardcore show,” and he’s quick to point out that even he could never reach GG levels of horrific-ness. Ever.” In some ways, Fat Mike’s approach to punk rock - as a sport of raw attitude, where survival is difficult but worth every second - echoes that of GG Allin. “There will never be anyone like GG Allin again,” says Fat Mike, frontman of Cali punk legends NOFX. As even as punk rock becomes ultra-polished and easy on the ears, it’s good to know that at one glorious point in musical history, a poop-smeared man from New Hampshire could slice open his skull with a broken bottle and eat a tampon onstage. That GG lived so hard, behaved so repulsively, bled so profusely, and died so young will forever cement him as the most offensive man in punk. Fashion, presentation, a sense of bluster - all of the things that punk rebelled against, when it formed as a gut reaction against classic rock - have become punk’s calling cards.īut there will always be one punk rock star who remains true to the culture’s core tenets: Kevin Michael “GG” Allin, frontman of the Murder Junkies and lifelong rock’n’roll firebrand. But while punk’s true spirit of shoving the ugly truth of humanity in the face of the pearl-clutchers remains alive in many, others have focused more on the trappings of the genre and culture than the reality. No swear word, political symbol, or fashion choice could outrage the general public as much as the fluids and waxes that your hideous beef shell oozes out on a daily basis.
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