Problem is, dead and buried, unless he is watching from that very warm place down below, was the cost of fame worth the price? He got a response, like Howard Stern…whether positive or negative, GG Allin in wanting so much to be known, achieved his goal. They will RUN from them which only adds to the GG Allin legend.
They won’t even crack the covers in a book store. Through that experience I realize that some people will find these two books abhorrent. My God the hostility I received from some DJ’s, absolutely refusing to play anything GG. Recently I helped Blood Orange Records, the label issuing GG music, with some promotion to college and internet radio. The emerging thoughts of taking the envelope and pushing it hard. You can read it like an Archie or Daredevil comic in the safety of your home and not getting sprayed by the beer bottle at the Paradise. to the audience, is antiseptic, actually. Seeing the “rumors” come to life naked, both middle fingers in the air and a big F.U. In bringing out of control to a new level his life is reflected upon in this black and white graphic novel,which is something for him to be proud of. Would there be a Marilyn Manson without Alice Cooper? A Lady Gaga without Madonna? GG definitely had a need for infamy that led to inelegant decadence. GG – to this critic – was not as much an original as someone who took Morrison and Iggy antics as far as he could push such stage acts.
Woman…Jimbo as the savior on a telephone pole. But Jim Morrison did it first on the cover of L.A. This is a true labor of love, with GG crucified somewhere towards the last 1/8th of the book. The black and white journey which the author claims is “Based on true events, hearsay and some of the weirdest things I’ve ever read” is something that GG’s sick mind must be appreciating down there somewhere in the depths of hell. The book is humorous in that to me it is not the guy I knew who autographed his Always Was, Is and Always Shall Be and gave me two extra copies. It was a memorable and unexpected moment, but tame in comparison to what GG would become. When GG performed with my band at The Paradise Theater, Boston’s Best Concert Club, he was still tame, taking a beer bottle, euphemistically self-abusing the bottle, and spraying the ale into the audience which included little old ladies and little old men watching their relatives in rock bands on stage. I never thought that the suit and tie guy in my kitchen REALLY BELIEVED he was Iggy Pop incarnate rolling around on broken glass. Proverbs 23:7 In the King James Version, “… as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”
The 192 pages from Microcosm Publishing, Portland, Oregon are both an enigma as well as a very logical extension of GG’s odd, bizarre and intentionally insane life. The paradox is stunning four decades later. He was the politest rock and roller, in fact, because no one showed up to my office/home on Dragon Court in Woburn in a suit and tie. GG was not yet the character portrayed in this book. I was probably writing it up for Hotline to the Underground, this very column over forty years ago. When GG Allin walked into my kitchen in the early 1980s to give me his first 45 RPM from Destiny Studios, up the road in Wilmington, he was in his suit and tie to talk to me about his new release. The key is the affection and respect he gives his subject.”įunny for the Igg to use the word “respect” to the highly disrespectful G.G. Iggy Pop writes on the cover of the main book: “Reid Chancellor brings a Real America story to your eyeballs, one you can’t put down. The Bizarre World of GG Allin resurrected in print, and here in the Hotline to the Underground which gave GG some of his very first ink! + a second GG ALLIN Rock and Roll Terrorist Activity and Coloring Book – both written The Graphic Life of Shock Rocker G G ALLIN