GG Allin - Hated. Review by tampongargler

G G Allin - Hated

From mongrel@netspace.net.au Sat Aug 17 11:45:49 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 22:13:23 +1100
From: Herry [mongrel@netspace.net.au]
To: Alttaste [alttaste@aol.com]
Newsgroups: alt.tasteless
Subject: Stoopid Bandwagon Jumping AOL Fuckturds

Alttaste wrote:

> .....Of course, G.G. and his penchant for masturbating/defacating on stage > is in the alt.tasteless Hall of Fame. I have him and some other videos at > my catalog-type home page (sorry, no pix yet). Feel free to check out > alt.tasteless.videos

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Film Revue - by tampongargler

HATED - GG Allin and the Murder Junkies (a rock 'n' roll overdose)

Produced and directed by Todd Phillips, cinematography by Neculai Berghelea, Alex Crawford, Michael Yetter, sound by Wolfgang Botko, Peter Dorgan, Rennie Elliot, Todd Shifflett, edited by Alex Crawford, sound edited by Huck Hotko.

THIS IS ***NOT*** AN ADVERTISEMENT

Jacket notes -

"My mind is a machine gun, my body the bullets and the audience the target" - GG Allin

"HATED lies somewhere between the satiric world of SPINAL TAP and the tragic world of DREAM DECEIVERS" - Village Voice

Paradoxically, this video documentary of the late, though debatably great, Mr. GG Allin, begins with an official FBI warning about the horrible things they will do to copyright infringers, followed by a Film Threat reminder that your friends can buy their own copies and the standard Film Threat intro sequence.

Blank screen, then the following printed introduction -

"GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really are. The human is just another animal who is able to speak out freely, to express himself clearly. Make no mistake about it, behind what he does is a brain"

This remains on screen long enough to read it fully before showing the quote attribution -

John Wayne Gacy Death Row Menard, Il.

Next a spoken word introduction by the doco maker, Todd Phillips about how he first saw GG perform in New York on one of the occasions he was too smacked out to perform and ended up being mutilated by the angry audience. This monologue is interspersed with shots of the various scumfucs that follow GG around, followed by a nice still of a raging, blood and shit smeared GG.

Todd continues to tell us that after that, GG was jailed for a couple of years for assaulting a woman in Michigan, and it was then that he met GG's brother and bass player Merle and first suggested the idea of a documentary to him. Merle put him in touch with GG, who had done his time and was now on parole. GG was all for it and was happy to skip parole and head to New York to start a new tour. Todd sent him a one way bus ticket and GG arrived the next day.

Cut to credits with a typical GG rant about him being the only true rock 'n' roller in the world to introduce a show. Cut to live footage of the opening number "Die when you die" and shots of a naked and pubeless (with a tiny shrivelled dick, probably from a combination of cold and heroin) GG opening up a nice head wound with his microphone, leading the band, cut to a prison release scene, cut to GG on his back on stage shoving a dildo up someone's bunghole then sucking it, cut to a court scene, cut to a frenzied audience, cut to some newsreader Dennis Ferrier bitching that GG is repetitive and tells us how GG once knocked 6 of his own teeth out with his own microphone, back to the gig and GG king-hitting some poor bastard.

At this point we have no doubts about what Mr Allin is all about.

Next we meet a fan called Unk, Budweiser in hand, horn rimmed glasses and a de-sleaved checkered shirt. Looks a lot like Potsie Webber. He talks about GG's antics and how it's real punk rock and we are shown a photo of Unk and GG tonguing each other.

Then we meet Merle, who informs us that GG "can be normal one minute and turn on you like an animal the next". Duh, thanks Merle, this $34.95 didn't go to waste. Like anyone had ask. Merle continues about the next tour and we get some footage of GG dragging someone up on stage and beating the living shit out of them.

Merle himself is unusual looking. Massive bushy side burns, John Lennon sunglasses, bandanna and what is basically a walrus moustache that is only as wide as Hitler's famous mo. (There, that's killed any follow up threadage.) Soft spoken and genuinely seems like a nice guy.

Cut to GG and his plans. The only one is to stay ahead of the law. Back to Merle who says no tour has ever been completed due to arrest or GG's hospitalisation with blood poisoning. Then some rehearsal stuff.

The pace of the doco is pretty breakneck so far. Applause to the director and editors. Yeah, it may look and sound sloppy, but it's the nature of the beast. It's meant to be as rough as guts.

Merle's back and tells us about the current line up and we are introduced to Deano the naked drummer ("who's excellent, a real pounder, a real fucking psycho", says Merle). Cut to Deano interview (as best as I can interperet it. Deano is probably THE freak of the whole bunch) -

Todd: So, Deano, tell us about yourself. What are you like ?

(Naked) Deano: What am I like ? (pause, staring somewhere at the ceiling) Why, I'm just peace and love in the midst of all violence (vague smile, cut to still of Deano bent over and chained to some bondage contraption, back to Deano), and I am free, legal and innocent... and squid the-o, geno city becky... lunar chicks are number 1... GG rock, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, brook...(big smile, finally looks at Todd)

Back to Unk being asked about Deano:

Unk: Deano ? Deano believes that he's immortal... that he's free of all law... that he's telepathically connected to the women chicks... and he believes that they love him... and Deano's done time for exposing himself to people...

Todd: How ?

Unk: Uhh, Deano exposed his schween to a little girl and did time, and when asked about it later said "aw, I was just teasing her"

I don't think there would be anyone left at this point of the vid who would deny we were dealing with seriously bizaare people here. This is all real and genuine, folks.

We then cut to Chicken John, a clean and well coiffed former member with a lot of grudges and he bitches and whines about how pointless it all was, and from there to a talk show - subject "Art vs Smut" with a very well behaved GG (what a cop out, finally on mass media). Nothing special.

Then a BIG surprise. We are informed Dee Dee Ramone has joined the band for the current tour. Dee Dee obviously had no idea what he was in for and was outta there a week later, denying everything.

Next, a live show at NY Universities Loeb student centre. A hall full of clean cut all American white boys watching a naked GG in dog collar shoving a peeled banana up his ass, pulling it out and throwing it at them, with accompanying moans of "Eeew!! Gross!!". GG then demands everyone to leave a piece of clothing on the stage or there's no show. Throws a couple of chairs, people freak, security's called and shows over.

Next some analysis of why GG is so from Merle and Unk, a poem from GG - "I hate you mother-fuckers"*100, then over to Concord, Vermont where we meet some of his school mates and teachers, who all thought he was a bit stressed but otherwise normal. His buddies talk about a relatively normal GG who never did drugs or anything, and then one night they were out and Merle slipped GG a trip in his donut. Instant apeshit, and has been ever since. Is this the reason, guys ?.

Back to naked Deano -

Todd - Describe GG to me the best way you can.

Deano - (pause) God, Jesus and Satan rolled into one.

Todd - How would *you* describe him ?

Deano - (pause) An extremely outrageous and beautiful person, likes to have fun no holds barred, no limits, (pause), if it was up to him, he would do anything he could, and that includes everything, to make himself and others laugh, and he's also a serious social comment on the problems of violence in the human race. See, there's far to much violence, not enough sweetness and that's basically, if you ask me, what his whole act centres on.

More stuff from a very philosophical Merle and Unk, like GG had a very good reason to put a cigarette out in that womans face in Boston and throw her across the bar. This is followed by a discourse on tattoos, and how shitty hand made jobs wouldn't work for anyone except GG. More philosophy about how typical GG fans drink too much (SURPRISE !) and the tactics of going to his gigs unscathed, followed by a nice still of of a corpse like GG having his dick sucked by an ardent male fan.

Back to Unk who's having a party for GG's birthday because GG's in town. GG tells him he ain't coming unless Unk will get a girl to piss and shit in his mouth. Unk tells him to come on over, he'll get someone. There's all these crack whores around the place, so it'll be right, Unk says.

No problem, a girl who was there agreed to do it anyway, with Merle filming. Roll it ! GG strips off on camera as does the girl with a nice pierced clit, and she squats over him and lets fly. After several mouthfuls GG vomits all this BBQ chicken but keeps on drinking it in. A very happy boy.

More philosophy and the Gacy visits, where Gacy becomes a fan. More stuff on the wierd family. News stuff about GG going to jail and his suicide on stage claim.

Cut to a spoken word show in Boston, and GG refuses to get off stage, starts shredding his chest and face with glass. He gets all shitty that no-one will believe him about his live suicide. Some woman challenges him and he grabs her by the hair and drags her around the room and swings her into a wall. *Crunch*, various chivalrous types rescue her.

Cut to a packed live show at Space at Chase, NYC. Naked dog-collared GG on stage again. Into the audience first song, microphone slams one fan, kicks another, drags some girl out into the centre and presses his crotch in her face while several guys desperately try to get her out of there. She's free. GG squats and shits, picks it up and rubs it in his face, eats from the pile like a dog, smears more on his body and throws some at the audience, keeps lunging at them until the band room is empty. The gig is less than 2 minutes old. Enter cops. Show over.

Out of NY and off to Texas, where GG gets assaulted and hospitalised by angry fans.

Todd loses contact. Roll closing credits with following scenes -

GG doing an accoustic number.

Deano telling us how women look at him and poses for the camera according to how he thinks they'd like to see him.

Chicken John whinges some more, proceeds to beat his face with his fists to say what GG does is no big deal. Yeah right, pal, you ain't bleeding and you haven't eaten your own shit. "Am I bleeding ?" asks John when he thinks the camera has stopped.

Details of GG's last gig and death with coffin and funeral shots.

OVERVIEW -

It is hard to imagine how the makers could've packed any more information into the brief 60 minutes of video. As documentary makers, they have made a truly outstanding effort, and GG would probably agree. Clear, concise, objective and to the point. Bravo.

As to GG himself. Well, we can debate forever his merits as an artist and performer, indeed the truth about his entire existance, with opinions being so many and varied.

One thing is certain, though. The whole mythology that has arisen around the man himself is a refreshing change to the rigid sterility of straight edge, rrriot girls and miscellaneous PC vegan and bunnyhugging hardcore hybrids.

GG was an apolitical assault on the world. Quasi-anarchists with personal political agendas will always seem to be ridiculous oxymorons (emphasis on last last two syllables) by comparison.

Thank you Mr Allin. You've managed

> Feel free to check out alt.tasteless.videos

FEEL FREE ?!?!

You worthless parasitic shitstain. You don't even justify exclamation marks. "wannabe", "wannabe" with a striking lower case "w". How the fuck do you think you can hijack a.t for your own lame wank ? You got kids ? Assuming so, wonder why their hair's falling out ? Wonder why your sweetheart's fucking anybody except _YOU_ ?

Here's wishing an agonising, hideous death to you and all your bloodline.

Have a nice day Mr. Never Get There So I'll Sob Crying,

Herry

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