Henry Rollins/Black Flag

lol, it's the first thing i've ever liked about JB

"performer and world travelernascent Burroughs Henry Rollins has a new favorite portable sound system"

A really good DVD of The Minutemen & Black Flag went up on D!m3ad0z3n a couple of days ago, it's from San Francisco '81 (Dez era) and it's pretty good quality.

Don't know if any of you guys saw anything about this but there was a reunion of sorts here in Vancouver a few weeks ago to celebrate local resident Chavo Pederast's 50th birthday. Greg Ginn showed up and they played some numbers. Here's an interview with Greg Ginn being his usual self. Anyway, Spray Paint The Walls is briefly discussed. Of course Greg hasn't heard of it and tries his hardest to appear disinterested. Was there ever anyone more paranoid about being pigeonholed? There's some clips from the show too.

Greg interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j3gg7XUE4s

Interview with Ron too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMHbNOEafsY&feature=related

RADDDDDD!

CHAVO and GREG sound so great (esp when he remembers the lyrics :/ ) and that is a DOPPPPPE t-shirt CP's rockin.

whoah

almost shit myself when nardwuar handed greg the book. i spent MONTHS of my life emailing and calling greg, trying to secure an interview, or at the very least to let him know i was working on the book, and in good faith, but i got no closer to contact with the man than chatting with his assistant. he knew it exists.

<3 ron reyes. that footage is awesome...

in greg's defense, there is the distinct possibility that he may have been high on pot

yeah, and i totally respect that! i may have been high when i was calling/emailing!

and in fairness all he said was that he hadn't seen the book. he comes across pretty well in my book, and not overly defensive.

oh definitely, he seemed fine.

Your book and Beefheart's Through The Eyes of Magic combined were both the kind of books I'd make excuses to go and read throughout my busy day. "Hey there's a lightbulb out in the bathroom, I'm going in to fix it." Then I'd sit and feverishly devour these books. I think I read yours in three sittings. Not trying to blow smoke, but Spray Paint the Walls is really more than any Flag fan could have wanted. Thanks for writing it.

I actually put in to do My War for the 33 1/3 series, got a "good idea!" response email, but never followed up. I think your book sorta nullifies that 'good idea,' anyway.

reyes seems like a bro of the highest caliber

wow, thanks! i sweat blood on this book, and its by no means perfect, so to see you write that means a lot. and i think there's definitely more to be written abt the flag, esp on My War. i'd read your book in a flash.

xp

ron's really great. i think my interview with him for the book was the first he'd given in years - i didn't think i had a chance in hell of speaking to him, and then joe nolte got in touch and said "i have a friend you might want to speak to for your book, if you're interested?" he's really sweet, really honest, really humble.

Oh Nardwuar, never change.

"Reality 86'd" A film by David Markey

http://vimeo.com/23499919

"Reality 86'd" A film by David Markey (c) 1991 We Got Power Films. (TRT 01:01:51) A road documentary shot from the inside of the last Black Flag tour ever (the 1986 "In My Head" US tour.) Greg Ginn along with Henry Rollins, Cel Revulta, and Anthony Martinez comprise the final line up of the band. Featuring behind the scenes proceedings and live performances from Black Flag, Painted Willie, and Gone (Ginn's side project, then featuring Sim Cain and Andrew Weiss (later of the Rollins Band) . Filmmaker / musician David Markey was along for the entire trip as the drummer / singer for Painted Willie (with Phil Newman & Vic Makauskas), documenting the six month tour as it happened. Also features roadie Joe ("Planet Joe") Cole, soundmen Davo Claasen and Dave "Ratman" Levine, and the tour manager who kept it all together, Mitch Bury. A crucial turning point in American underground rock. The end of the line for a trail blazing American band.

bump

awesome! thanks for posting.

thanks man

how long before it gets yanked or does ginn not care anymore

not sure ginn knows about the internet

his army of cat soldiers will inform him

lol painted willie is the worst band

they perfect that vibe of when you are in a band and you start dicking around jamming some riff just for kicks but you'd never actually like play like that for real people

and then they put out records and went on tour

at least they didn't waste a good band name on it

painted willie is the source of a weird in-joke with some of my high school friends. whenever we'd be in van nuys (which was strangely often) we'd shout "LIVE FROM VAN NUYS!" i'm not even sure how we knew this phrase, i've never heard the ep. but it was def a reference to it.

true story about painted willie.

I almost bought that record so many times and now I'm real curious about what it sounds like

maybe age has transformed it into some unheralded classic

If you need some background.

i must've just seen it in record stores a lot in the early 90s, and thought that "Live From Van Nuys" was a great name for a record. kind of doubt it's a classic but ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8h5xuNVuVE

was just about to post that!

man ppl were really jamming out to painted willie

guy wearing his own band's shirt NAGL

maybe if like you'd never heard...like...any hard rock band ever or something they would be good?

lol, yeah, maybe not an unheralded classic. something impressively unspectacular about them though. like kind of archetypal mid-80s socal garage band.

maybe after you've heard every hard rock band ever, and your great all-knowing mind tires, maybe that's when you turn to painted willie

we should do a poll for worst second wave SST band, DC3, painted willie, tom troccoli's dog, october faction, etc

painted willie might win and that would be something

maybe ginn made them keep all the weed in the painted willie van?

Painted Willie then embarked on a six-month national tour opening for Gone and Black Flag in 1986, which would be Black Flag's last tour. The band recorded and released the Live from Van Nuys EP during that tour live EP during the tour titled simply Live From Van Nuys. Dave filmed eight years of footage for an eventual documentary of the tour that would be called Reality 86'd but Ginn didn't want it to be released. Black Flag singer Henry Rollins tried to have it released in 1994 through a distribution deal he struck with Time Warner but Ginn still refused.[3][5]

8 years of footage! I had no idea 1986 lasted that long

lol

ginn's weed made things seem crazy long back then.

there's a good band name: Ginn's Weed

don't overlook how terrible gone sounds in that video, made my ears pinch my nose and say "p.u."

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nnxeaxhfJ5w/TYfh1RO66eI/AAAAAAAAFTI/5yjZJJzNGgM/s400/no-age.jpg
downloaded this a month or so ago thinking it'd be so rad, but it is kind of terrible! see for yourself: http://luckypsychichut.blogspot.com/2011/03/no-age-compilation-of-sst-instrumental.html

"this is awful. you've got to try it"

totally shitty. yr gonna love it.

the food is terrible, and such small portions

The Food Is Terrible, and Such Small Portions: The Best of Painted Willie

This milk's gone sour, smell it.