BLACK FLAG - HENRY GETS HIT IN THE FRICKEN HEAD - LIVE IN GERMANY

"MR TESTOSTERONE -- AMERICAS FIRST HEALTHY PUNK ROCKER, GETES HIT FACE ON WITH A FR*ICKEN BEER CAN -- TO THE HEAD !!!"

First of all let me tell you why this is a good video. Its not.
Thats the first lesson learned here. This "music" is really hard to figure out.
When I first got into Black Flag I actually hated these guys. I had to listen to
the tapes over and over again to try to pick out a melody.

If you can get past the dismal muddy sound of this video then you can rejoice in the "comedy" of this piece. Singer Henry ROllins gets hit in the head with a beer can. Although it wasn't as terrible as the one Sid Vicious got, ( he got a full beer can thrown at him that cut his lip apart and splattered blood all over the place in 1978). Henry did get hit hard through because he kind of stumbles forward and grabs his head. He comes out cussing and swearing at the audience brandishing a mic stand.

I get a kick out of watching Henry lose his shit for a number of reasons. Rollins is like a time bomb ready to explode and I never understood how punk could stand up for this health conscious, muscle cut, "punk rocker"... its a very strange combination. I would have enjoyed watching Susan Powter get pelted with a full bottle of Hydroxycut too... that would have been pretty entertaining. Anytime a preacher gets hit in the head while in the pulpit is maximum entertainment. End of story......

Rollins was hard to decipher. I still don't own all the Black Flag catalog. Even though I was a fan I didn't have the interest to invest in the full line up. These shows were VERY HARD to sit through becuase they were incredibly depressing while being ear deafening. I managed to see them one time in 1986 -- one of their last shows in Ann Arbor. There were about three or four songs that i actually liked because there was a melody attached to them. Although far from, "likeable" these songs ushered on a new sound......

It broke the ground for a lot of bands to come and make punk and new music a brand new thing... for all to enjoy.

Cantu 2007

BLACK FLAG - HENRY GETS HIT IN THE HEAD

BLACK FLAG - Forget The Moral Message - This is Fantastic

THATS HOW YOU DO IT

What a great video. The skull guy in the driver seat always throws me for a loop everytime I see it. The effect that it brings to this low rent video production is nothing less than magnificent.

Style doesn't have to cost a fortune.

You do have to know how to hold the camera to capture the subject. These shots are beautifully staged. The effect is great. The way the skull is rolling around and the low camera angles of the car swerving all over the road is pure genius.

I know I am going to make enemies far abroad in law enforcement but so what. This is our art. You cops have your art... its called, "Mayberry RFD" and "The Andy Griffith Show" and like it or not, those people in those shows are too stupid to be real.

BLACK FLAG is about as real as you can get. And the other thing that saves this video is that it is shot unapologetically in black and white. The solo is terrible because thats the way Gregg Ginn intended it to be. Its a bit awful when you get honest with it. But quirky guitar crunches is what Black Flag is all about. This music has a way of growing on you.... like a fungus.

And.... because the politically correct 90's are now long behind us ... and I can speak my mind. This video inspires me to drink......

Excuse me.... I am going to go crack open a bottle of ice cold brew now.

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Fascube 2007

BLACK FLAG - DRINKING AND DRIVING

BLACK FLAG - TV PARTY - REDEUX

Ah.. the soundtrack... to the SPRINGTIME OF MY LIFE.

and a damn good one.

I loved this song... NO wait... I ADORED THIS SONG.. NO .. WAIT..
I ABSORBED THIS SONG INTO MY INNER CONSCIOUSNESS AND INNER WELL BEING !!!!

Little did I know this low rent video and song would end up making Henry Rollins
an International Superstar. Now this guy is hawking Macintosh computers, and has
his own pop culture tv show on IFC.

Weird.

I never thought anything released on SST would have that kind of media pull in the
mainstream.. YES I SAID IT.. HENRY ROLLINS IS MAINSTREAM... I STILL LIKE HIM, but he
is very mainstream.

This song though.... is not mainstream. Its odd, and offbeat..... and in some wonderfully strange way it is very likeable and adorable... like my youth.
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Ted Cantu created the FASCUBE, (FASHION CULTURE BEAUTY NETWORK) Network... !!!

BLACK FLAG - TV PARTY