Better than Punky Brewster

Yeah his dad was a religious fruitcake that would randomly dig graves for him, his brother and their mother. His little brother would call him gg because he couldn't pronounce Jesus.

Gesus Ghrist

Imagine if GG and Sid linked up together in Vegas for a whiskey, cocaine, and heroine induced weekend.

Jesus Christ, Allin!

This guy would take a dump on stage and fling it into the audience and rub it on himself. Dude was certifiably nuts.

Around 20 years back I ordered a CD & t shirt off Merle & he sent me a free Jabbers poster and invited me to a cheetah chrome show he was attending lol, dude’s a class act

Nobody fuckin' knows GG Allin!

I'll kill 'em!

I've heard that about Merle. I got the 1st scumfucs album about 35 years ago.

Not a punk icon, widely recognised as a disgusting human.

coincidentally that's also what a lot of people would exclaim after seeing him perform

I can't believe he didn't grow up well-adjusted

I knew a person who went on some tours with Merle probably ten-fifteen years ago. He claims one night in the van Merle confirmed that GG and himself gave each other head when kids.

I have little doubt there was sexual abuse in the home. Their father was very strange. Isolated the family, would pile snow over the windows so you couldn't look in or our, made them dig graves, constantly talked about a coming apocalypse, and general abuse.

To be clear, I cannot confirm if the things I've been told are true, but it was a good source and someone who had evidence they indeed played gigs with the Merle in the Murder Junkies post GG's death.

I know this if fucked, but I don't think any amount of behavioral intervention could help GG, and I do wonder what would have happened if he did kill himself on Halloween as he said he would for years.

After learning what I know about them, absolutely nothing surprises me.

Nothing about GG was punk rock unless you consider beating up women to be punk. Guy was a piece of shit and meeting people who like him is a major red flag and I create distance with such people.

"Jesus Christ, Allin!"

-Jesus Christ Allin's Mother yelling at her husband Allin when the nurse asked for a name for the birth certificate

Also, not much of a punk icon.

He'd be a lot more legendary if his music wasn't crap.

GG Allin was punk rock music being played by a fucking lunatic. I see him as an extreme version of Sid Vicious: it’s not the music you’re attracted to, it’s the controversy. Whether or not he did what he did solely for attention is anybodies guess, but he sure did get a lot of it.

Now having said that, I don’t think anybody has the right to say what is and isn’t punk. Not trying to start an argument or anything, just trying to add my perspective.

He also would do it in public. It wasn’t only a stage thing.

With his whole personality why tf did he change his name? And to Kevin Michael no less. The dude was a punk rocker named Jesus Christ and he gave that up. Unbelievable.

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I enjoyed the punk band from the 80's called New Kids On The Block.

scoff only REAL punks listen to the backstreet boys

How many times has that guy killed himself on stage already?

Is this like pink goth?

He was a shitty person that was shitty at everything he did and slapped “punk” onto it so he could milk idiots for their cash.

He wasn't really an icon - he was a spectacle. There is nothing enduring about his music, it was his performances distinguished him

GG absolutely was an icon in punk. Hence, here we are arguing about it on Reddit decades after he died.

Whether or not you agree with what he’s done (I’m not a fan) it doesn’t take away from his prominence or influence on the culture.

The punk scene by its very nature attracts fuck ups. Most of its legends were heavily involved in drugs, violence, criminality,etc. Utilising shock in performance has always been a key component.

You sound like a straight up square that wants to sugar coat the history and make it seem like everyone has good intentions and was politically moral

I don't know how I somehow didn't learn this sooner.

I'm guessing that he wasn't actually born with it.

Most likely it was given to him shortly after birth. Possibly on his birth certificate.