Yo, DJ.....HIT ME!!

[Johann]

Another article on the Black Flag lawsuit:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,4793900.story

[Johann]

This Black Flag saga is taking really unpleasant turns. (For me anyway, and probably most die-hard Black Flag fans).

Greg Ginn is about to release the "new" Black Flag album, named What the...?
It boasts the most asinine, childish, ridiculously awful album cover art you have ever seen.
It is seriously cringe-worthy. I'll post an image of that fucked-up cover soon enough- it's on the web now.
28 years after they released the Magnificent IN MY HEAD, comes "WHAT THE...?"

And that title is apt. WTF is Greg Ginn smoking? Drop the horrible shake Greg. Find some Northern Lights or Strawberry Kush.
Your brain is being eaten alive by bad Hermosa beach shake. Was it treated with rat poison? Get some help.


As Henry Rollins said recently:

Some of my peers just don't know when to walk away. Like a true Samurai, I sheathed my sword and walked away. I don't need to be 18 again.

[Johann]

Lou Reed died yesterday. (1942-2013)

I didn't like his ego or his assholiness, but Holy Fuck could the man play.

[Johann]

This news stuns me.
I am stunned.
And in a way I am not.

I was going to buy the "new" Black Flag album, as "Exhibit A" but it hasn't come out yet. But it is online.
Next year, maybe?
Ron Reyes.
Another betrayal by Greg Ginn. Weeding Out indeed.
This shit is truly stunning.

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/53155-...es-black-flag/

[oscar jubis]

Thanks Johann for taking notice of Uncle Lou's passing. I became a fan when Walk on the Wild Side was released in '72 and have followed his amazing career ever since. I am proud to say I have seen him live, with that magnificent group he put together with Bob Quine and bassist Fernando Saunders. The Dean's eulogy can be accessed here:
http://www.spin.com/articles/lou-ree...esucker-blues/

[Johann]

LOU REED
Hunter S. Thompson said "We must thank Lou Reed for "WALK ON THE WILD SIDE". He had a good day when he wrote that one." (paraphrase)

Henry Rollins wrote a moving tribute to Lou, and what he meant to him (and many around the globe).
Lou was a Genius.
But he was also an asshole. When he heard Jim Morrison died he asked "What did he die of? IN A BATHTUB??? That's greeeat!"
He also treated Mo Tucker (his drummer from the Velvets) like shit.
But the man could play like a house on fire.
Watch David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust) do "WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT" on youtube. Best V.U. cover ever laid down, Man...


And as for Greg Ginn, this guy is one vicious, nihilistic, cowardly, destructive piece of shit.
Who happens to be a musical genius.
Henry Rollins knew not to go near Greg Ginn ever again. He knew the real M.O.

Poor Ron Reyes. I now see that Greg had planned to "get him back" for publicly quitting the band way back in the day.
Ron fell for it. HOOK. LINE. SINKER.

[Johann]

I seriously don't know what to do with my Black Flag records now.
My disgust with Greg Ginn is extreme right now.
The music seems like a lie, and yet it isn't....is that fucked up or what? LOL