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Black Flag, Re: [bomp] how the dancing broke down
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- From: Bob Widenhofer <bwidenhofer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:41:20 -0700 (PDT)
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I really think Rollins ruined an otherwise very good band. And his vocals are fine on the Damaged LP. When he actually started writing songs, and more-or-less became "band spokesman, they went downhill fast.
At the time the "violence" didn't seem like violence to me, we weren't trying to hurt each other.
I did end up with a broken jaw when Black Flag played Tampa on the Damaged tour, but I've always chalked that up to an overbooked club, alcohol, a buncha' excited underaged kids....it never occurred to me to blame the band in any way.
Vince Welsh <vince@vincewelsh.com> wrote:
Another example of a band that was goofy and over-hyped.
Two labels that stick with Henry Rollins to this very day.
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Subject: [bomp] how the dancing broke down
>
>> I especially hated Black
>> Flag, but they became the big thing locally... I
>> wanted no part of that.
>
> I can think of FAR worse bands.....
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> I videotaped this thing off of some KABC magazine show back in 1980 about
> violence in Punk clubs, and it primarily featured Black Flag at the
> Starwood. I
> do feel the band was responsible for a paradigm shift in the behavior of
> it's
> audience, as do a bunch of the people who are interviewed in Brendan
> Mullen's
> book WE GOT THE NEUTRON BOMB (hell... I'm forgetting, is that the
> title?...
> it's the one before his Darby Crash book).
>
> I just remember people picking each other up off the floor after every
> song,
> after pogoing, in the early days. That wasn't gonna happen at a Black
> Flag
> show, and there's the diff. The early days were intense, and kinetic, but
> not
> bullshit. Bouncing off each other, there was total madness but not a
> vindictive swipe was made, anywhere I'd been, anyway. That was gone
> forever after
> Black Flag.
>
> Dom
>
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