HW: top 10 beginning with A

[John Majka]

I don't know that GG  was ever punk, in the strictest sense of the term.
Really it was just a lot of sensationalism of the worst kind and
anti-everything attitude, which is pretty much 180 degrees from the ideology
of punk, which has always identified itself as more of a thinking-person's
music.  GG was counter to intellectualism in every way... not too far
different from mainstream rockstars, just on an underground scale.  The
lamest of the lame.  As a side note, my band played one time at a club
somewhere in Michigan which was being run by someone associated with GG, and
it was the seediest dive I've ever been to... upstairs there were all these
heroin addicts just lying around on beanbag chairs listening to hardcore 7"
singles on one of those toy record players you used to have when you were in
elementary school.  Ugly people in an ugly room with nothing going on....
just sitting there staring at the gray floor, totally zonked out.... utterly
depressing.
John Majka
jmajka2 at home.com

> GG is dead now,I think from an overdose.I used to be a punk,20 years
ago,and
> GG has nothing important to say. He was a waste of life,had no talent.I
mean
> who wants to hear about masterbation. GG, I think was just trying to get
> attention in a sick and perverted way. I think he ripped off WAYNE COUNTY
> and the ELECTRIC CHAIRS.
> STEPHE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Medford [mailto:nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK]
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:36 AM
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
> Subject: Re: HW: top 10 beginning with A
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:54:17 -0000, Sam Kirwan <samantha.kirwan at NTL.COM>
> wrote:
>
> >As appeared also on the front of the banned 'Smells like Sh1t' album.
> >
>
> Didn't know there was such an album. But the song 'Smells Like...' is a
> classic gonzoid acid-punk number... how my friend and I used to enjoy
> watching Tory politicians being interviewed on TV while we bellowed
'smells
> like shiiiitt!!!" in a razor-gargling Nik Fiend kind of way.
>
> What with this and the GG Allin debate, the list is getting pretty shitty
> this afternoon. I thought GG was tedious and horrible: anti-music, anti-
> life, anti-everything: seems a very childish form of rebellion to me, but
> each to his own I s'pose. Did people like him 'cos being completely
> unacceptable will always win you some fans ("he throws shit at the
> audience?? That's like, totally cool, dude!!") or were there deeper
reasons?
>
> No intention of offending anyone here (unlike GG), just curious...
>