This brought a lot of attention to the underground punk rocker, and he soon became one of the most feared and disliked figures in music. GG Allin was once quoted in an interview as saying, “My mind is a machine gun, my body is the bullets, and my audience is the target.”įor the last several years of his life, GG Allin had told the public that he was planning on killing himself on stage during a concert and that he was going to shoot at the audience members as well before doing so. After this, the drunk and bleeding GG Allin would run out into the audience and physically attack the people attending his show. He generally would strip naked during the first few songs, after which he would tend to take a beer bottle and smash it over his head, and then proceed to cut his flesh with the broken glass. ![]() ![]() During interviews with various reporters, GG Allin stated that his time in prison only made him even more spiteful and angry towards society and that he would not stop acting this way until he was dead.ĭuring concerts, GG Allin would do things that earned him national notoriety and made many people afraid to attend his shows. Regardless, the court believed the woman’s testimony and Allin was sentenced to serve three years. GG always claimed that the act was consensual and that the girl had in fact also drunk some of his blood. He made this clear in many of his highly controversial songs, such as “I Hate People,” “I’m A Rapist,” “I Kill Everything I Fuck,” and “My Prison Walls.” GG Allin spent three years in prison after he allegedly raped a girl, burned her with a lighter, and drank some of her blood after cutting her with a knife. He was filled with an almost psychotic rage and hatred towards mainstream culture, the government, the police, and society in general. He did not care in any way about what the majority of society thought of him. GG Allin was a true rebel, if ever there was such a thing. GG Allin was a notorious punk rock singer who played in several bands, the most remembered being GG Allin And The Murder Junkies. ![]() He was working on this piece about punk rock singer-songwriter GG Allin, and we wanted to share it with you.įor this edition’s musical review I decided to write about someone that not many people may know about, but who has nonetheless left a searing permanent mark on the punk rock scene that will never be forgotten. His enthusiasm for music was remarkable and Adam’s contributions to the blog will be much missed by everyone at Malvern. Malvern Books’ resident music expert and much loved staff member, Adam, very sadly passed away on Sunday night.
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