GG Allin

He was just purely a young man who was very excited about his band and the songs he had written. He was bright eyed and bushy tailed and was thrilled that I came and played on his recording session. I was happy to do it with him. He was an enjoyable cat to spend the evening in the studio with. Yeah, I was as surprised as everyone else when all that kind of scatological performance art started.

Wayne Kramer (Ultimate-Guitar.com)

I didn’t learn about GG Allin until a few days after he died. That was probably a fortunate thing.

A friend was walking through downtown Amherst, saw me and came over to exclaim “GG Allin die”, to which I replied “who?”. He looked disappointed and said “of everyone, i figured you’d have to know him”.

I didnt’ but that that planted a seed. I immediately wandered over to a record store, For The Record, and asked if they had anything by GG Allin. The manager looked at me with almost a look of disgust on his face and said “we wouldn’t carry anything by him here”. I then got distracted and ceased my search.

A few months later, I was hanging out in town on morning and walked into the other record store, Al Bums. I think I asked the manager there if THEY happened to have anything from GG Allin, and he pointed over my shoulder – they had a copy of the documentary Hated on the shelf. I immediately bought it and went back to the regular hang out spot.

A little while later a friend came walking by, sat near me and asked what i’d gotten. I opened the bag and pulled out the video, still not sure what i had. He’d heard of GG as well, and immediately we walked by back to my parents house where there was a a VHS player and pressed play.

WELL… The video starts with GG having a eating hotdog for his birthday, to say it mildly, and escalates from there.