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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
Black
Flag's Last Show
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Black
Flag
Last Show
[no label, 1CD]
Live
at Graystone Hall, Detroit, MI, June 27, 1986
To paraphase a common
saying, if Black Flag weren't there, someone else would have come along
to invent it.
This is what the
wikipedia said: "Black Flag was a hardcore punk band formed in 1977 in
southern California, largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn... They are
widely considered the first hardcore punk band. Black Flag forged a unique
sound early on that mixed the raw simplicity of the Ramones with atonal
and microtonal guitar solos and frequent tempo shifts. Most of the band's
material was released on Ginn's independent label, SST Records."
Well, that hardly
tells the whole story. There was a time when the only decent way to access
the US indie hardcore scene (where the music was harder, faster and louder)
was through SST Records, Alternative Tentacles, Dischord Records, Touch
And Go Records and the Sub Pop Singles Club. After all, beside Black Flag,
groups such as Bad Brains, Descendents, fIREHOSE, Husker Du, Leaving Trains,
Minutemen, Screaming Trees and Soundgarden all have appeared on SST Records.
If SST Records was
a way to spread the music, the band, through its many personel changes,
always reflected that do-it-yourself ethos before that turned into an
ATTITUDE, especially from the late-'90s onwards and before hardcore punk
splintered into straight edge (often seen as led by Minor Threat and later
Fugazi and Youth Of Today) and other sub-genres such as skate punk, thrash
metal, grindcore and emo.
According to the
wiki, in the book, Get In The Van, vocalist Henry Rollins wrote that Ginn
telephoned him in August 1986: "He told me he was quitting the band. I
thought that was strange considering it was his band and all. So in one
short phone call, it was all over."
Just before that
fateful call, Black Flag played their last concent at the Greystone Hall
in Detroit on June 27, 1986. A recording of the show has been circulating
among the fans and a word of thanks to bydwuori for sharing this soundboard
recording, with Rollins' vocals forceful and upfront, on the Dime site.
The wiki said: "By
this point the band had become increasingly talented at performing improvised
'jams', with Rollins screaming out lyrics quite literally as they came
to him (as is evident on this recording), turning some songs like Louie,
Louie into frenetic, almost unrecognizable blasts of intensity."
Later hardcore releases
might have been even more frenetic but that's not what Black Flag were
about. Fronted by Rollins' tight vocals, growls and dynamic showmanship,
a stage presence which he would finely-hone through the years, listening
to this, one would have thought that this was a Rollins show, rather than
a Black Flag gig. Featuring many songs from In My Head, Ginn's guitar
is quite exquisite - his is not blazing shards of noize - there is a controlled
frenzy as on Kickin And Stickin and there is even a swinging groove between
the guitar and Anthony Martinez's drumming on Society's Tease.
Apart from Ginn (and
even then), it's likely no one else in the band had any inkling that this
would be the final gig. But that seemed an apropo way for the band to
go. Work every gig like it was their last, and one day they would be right!
And they did go out with a passion - the restless pull of Gimme Gimme
Gimme which segues into a Louie Louie jam not only showed the musical
history of the band but the ways in which musical ideas can stretch.
It must have been
hard to imagine fans who grew up with the band reflecting today on tracks
as such Retired At 21 ("You're retired at 21/Your mind is gone/Your
race is run") or Annihilate This Week ("You annihilated this week/Now
it's Sunday and you weep/A future of fun/Or a guilt loaded run").
But as gregsolo commented on the internet: "If a new band today had performed
this version of White Hot, they would be hailed as gods. Unreal and must
have."
Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
this recording has never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
Retired
At 21 (5.7MB) |
| Track
02 |
Annihilate
This Week (5.8MB) |
| Track
03 |
Bastard
In Love (3.6MB) |
| Track
04 |
Drinking
And Driving (4.5MB) |
| Track
05 |
Paralyzed
(3.2MB) |
| Track
06 |
In
My Head (7.0MB) |
| Track
07 |
White
Hot (9.3MB) |
| Track
08 |
Black
Love (2.8MB) |
| Track
09 |
Kickin
And Stickin (12.5MB) |
| Track
10 |
Society’s
Tease (7.8MB) |
| Track
11 |
This
Is Good (4.8MB) |
| Track
12 |
I
Can See You (3.6MB) |
| Track
13 |
Nothing
Left Inside (12.7MB) |
| Track
14 |
Gimme
Gimme Gimme (2.5MB) |
| Track
15 |
Louie
Louie (8.8MB) |
Lineup:
Greg
Ginn - guitar
Henry Rollins
- vocals
C'el Revuelta
- bass
Anthony Martinez
- drums
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