Listen to GG here. Fuck he really had some great talent. What a voice! And though all songs are great You Hate Me is just MIND BLOWING!! It SOUNDS so fast thanks to the fantastic playing by The Jabbers. I think this 7″ has to be one of the 10 most rotated records on my turntable during the last 28 years. I don’t know what else to say this record speaks pretty much for itself.
Now let’s hope this shitty blog don’t go down again anytime soon. You love me and I hate you!
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Label: Orange
Format: 7″
Songs:
You Hate Me And I Hate You.mp3
Automatic.mp3
Assface.mp3
Fucking fabulous record!
Back in the early ’80s when I erroneously thought I was the only one in LA tracking down rare punk 45s, I landed most of GG’s coolest records at Rhino. Those funny magic marker artwork records were sitting unbought in the bins for a year or two, until I gave them a try! I was so jazzed, I even nabbed the original copy of Eat My F*ck which became my favorite punk album for many years!
I was bummed later to find out that when he did play LA back then, he played with the Omlits and Naughty Women, two bands that, again, I thought I was the only one who consistently went to see these types of bands! How did I miss that one show? Everyone else had “moved on” to bad hardcore!
Finally in ‘93, about a month before GG died, he played in Denver (where I had moved years before), actually it was Littleton, CO, in a rented out empty store in a nothing strip mall. And what a show! It was mostly high school age kids yelling “Why don’t you kill yourself?!?!”. He beat them with folding chairs while they panicked, screaming, clambering over each other through the one exit available, all the while yelling “Maybe you won’t think it’s so f*cking funny anymore!” Ah, memories… (queue sad music)
thanks a lot for this awesome stuff
I’ve been proudly defending GG Allin’s music since 19987 and it never gets old! I still get a thrill when people tell me how lame, and bad GG was. Oh well, there’s no accounting for taste. I’ve got a comic book chronicling my years of devotion to Public Animal #1. It’s called, Slap In The Face: My Obsession With GG Allin. contact me at jmelkmann@hotmail.com if you want one. For some time I was writing the official GG bio with Merle, but…well, you can read about THAT and so much more in my comic.
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Never heard this… Fuck Yeah! Some high energy snotty shit! Thanks! And Fred you’re talking about Robt. Omlit’s Omlits, yes?
Yeah, yeah, crazy Robert Omlit. I have an aged cassette of their recordings that I ripped and cleaned up and posted to Usenet awhile back. If you find a rip of the Omlits, that is from me. Once when I saw the Omlits they had a hot topless girl playing bass!
There is a cassette demo somewhere of the amazing Naughty Women, but someone borrowed it back in ‘82 or so, so now it’s gone. Someone should rleases that, it was a great tape! I saw that one tune from the demo made it on a comp “F*ck Yourself”, plus they had two rerecorded tunes on a Smoke Seven comp. They played Doll/Stooges style, covered the stage in aluminum foil strips, pornography (like Fear, eh!?) and mannequin heads made to look like decapatited new wave chicks! I remember the singer getting head onstage from an enthusiastic slutty girl at one show! I used to see the Mentors alot too, back at the ol’ Cathey! Nig-Hiest… Mau Maus… is the Cathey torn down? must be…
ah, this is awesome.
GG sounds – well – coherent, maybe?
I’ve heard some stuff from “Troubled Troubadour” and a couple of other compilations and it’s not near as energetic or as good (in most cases) as this. I don’t know the timeline off the top of my head, but if this was earlier, maybe later on he was just going for the shock value, i.e. “Expose Yourself to Kids.”
I dunno…
Cathay is still there, it is some sort of business now. I loved that place. I saw many, many, bands there. Best gigs at Cathay were Plain Wrap, N.O.T.A, Lazy Cowgirls, V.O.A…shit, every show was great!
All punks who grow up in New Hampshire, GG’s home state, love this man and we spend our whole lives defending him to people once we move away. We take great pride in GG Allin where I come from and are always pointing people towards his great recordings with the Jabbers. Thanks for posting this!
Awfully simple, but still GREAT. So much better than what came after, though I love my copy of the drink, fight & fuck 7 inch–coupla nasty classics on that one.
Awesome to see GG getting some respect. Some great Punk Rock n’ Roll in those early days. He doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
Some people here in Portland, Oregon these days, that don’t quite know what’s going on, have the misconception that if GG Allin ever played here back in the day, nobody would have gone to see him. That is so far from the truth, because when he did play here in 1993, he had the Roseland Theater packed, and the Roseland Theater is a pretty big venue. After GG died, his brother Merle told one of my friends over here that GG thought Portland was one of the best towns that he ever played in and he wanted to come back. He was going to play at a Punk Fest here, but he died about 2 or 3 weeks before the fest. So there was only one time he ever played in Portland or Seattle.
Dude you rock, I saw the Roseland video. I’m tryin’ to move to Portland, what’s it like?
I’ve been hanging out in Germany for awhile, but I’ll be moving back to Portland in a few months. Portland’s cool. It’s changed a bit over the years though. Lately it’s getting a bit yuppified. It’s a fairly big city, but it doesn’t have any massive skyscrapers. It kind of looks like downtown Cleveland or Indianapolis, but it has more of a Seattle kind of vibe.
I need to get a copy of the video from the Roseland show when I return to Portland. Merle is still selling all kinds of GG Allin videos. I think he has a video that has the show in Portland and the show in Seattle from the night before that was at Under the Rail.
Portland has became a bit PC over the years which has led some people to mistakenly beleive that if GG Allin ever played in Portland nobody would have gone to see him. The video of the show at the Roseland is proof that those people are very mistaken. Portland was a bit different in 93 when GG came there.
Fuck yes. Thanks for posting.
GG IS THE KING OF PUNK…even if he is dead
i bought this 7″ for $20 about 13 or so years ago,gave it to a friend who takes better care of his records then i do…you cant find his vinyl for sale anywhere now,not that i’d pay out the butt for a damn record!
gg had REAL talent,anyone who knows his story knows this as a fact
his subject matter is another issue,perfect for pissed off 15 year olds
A little known fact about all these Jabbers recordings is that GG played the drums on all the studio recordings! not only was he a great singer/ frontman but a killer drummer as well!
ey ian, not only did he play drums on some of the older stuff but during the eighties (some of my fav stuff) he did vocals – drums and even bass on some recordings, ones hardcore fans know and didn’t know he’s doing 75% off all the work. his lyrics and intensity are unmatched in music period. WAR IN MY FUCKING HEAD!! he’s my god, the Rock’n'roll Terrorist – God of Fire in Hell – The Gypsy Mother Fucker – Faggot Freak – Antisocial MastErbator – what you’d get if you satan raped the virgin mary.