Interviewer's words are in boldface; GG's words are in regular text
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This is GG Allin. I came here to work, and I'm bleedin', stinkin' and drinkin' in Tampa.
GG, welcome to Tampa. Tell me a little bit about the Murder Junkies, your latest band.
Well, it's kind of a band that I put together when I got out of prison, and they're based out of New York. And... I don't know what to tell you about 'em. Actually, I haven't even really met 'em yet. They're rehearsing without me. In thе meantime, I'm just going through all this other shit.
It's likе, when I got out of prison, I had, like, things that I had to take care of before I could do anything. Any tour, or any, uh... y'know, I had to get the album done. I had to get, uh... certain things had to be taken care of before I could even tour.
So actually, the Murder Junkies is my touring band, and the name of the new album is Murder Junkies, and it was done with ANTiSEEN. So it's kind of confusing, because the album is Murder Junkies, the band is Murder Junkies, but the band that played on Murder Junkies isn't the Murder Junkies. So it's kinda fucked up.
You've been, uh... you've got a lot of records, and played around a lot of cities kinda on and off, touring. How do you get folks for your band? You have a lot of different bands. How do you get the band members, the musicians?
Basically, they call me up. It's like, people call me all the time, like, "we'll play with you when you come here", "we'll play with you when you come there". And I've got, like, a book. I just write everybody's name and number, and I... like, well, "when I go to that area I'll call him and see what he can do, and I'll call him and see what he can do", and it's like...
So you've got a band in every state, huh?
Well, at one point I had a band everywhere. And if I didn't, I'd find one, and if I didn't have a band, I'd do the show alone, so it was, uh... I mean, I can do shows without a band, sometimes more intensely than I can with. But, I mean, to me, the... I don't worry about the band. I set up the show... I mean, the band... sometimes we'll have a show two weeks away and I won't even have the band yet. I'll be like, "well, I can get that next week". But I always seem to get it, y'know.
And it's like... and I don't want to be too well rehearsed, and I don't things to be real predictable. It's like, I want to get the set down, and I tell the band, well, "I'm gonna do my thing, and you do your thing... you know, try to... you've got to follow me as best you can, and you gotta do whatever you gotta do." But I, you know... it's just whoever is ready at the time will play. You know, people always say they're "gonna play", "gonna play". It's like, you know... when the time comes to play, you know, "if you're ready, you're playing", "if you're ready, you're playing", "if you're ready"... you know, "let's go and do it". It's like, I mean... I don't... nothing's really for sure with any band.
I noticed in press clippings, there was a show that was like an open mic night at a club, and you guys just walked in.
Mm-hmm.
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This is GG Allin. I came here to work, and I'm bleedin', stinkin' and drinkin' in Tampa.
GG, welcome to Tampa. Tell me a little bit about the Murder Junkies, your latest band.
Well, it's kind of a band that I put together when I got out of prison, and they're based out of New York. And... I don't know what to tell you about 'em. Actually, I haven't even really met 'em yet. They're rehearsing without me. In thе meantime, I'm just going through all this other shit.
It's likе, when I got out of prison, I had, like, things that I had to take care of before I could do anything. Any tour, or any, uh... y'know, I had to get the album done. I had to get, uh... certain things had to be taken care of before I could even tour.
So actually, the Murder Junkies is my touring band, and the name of the new album is Murder Junkies, and it was done with ANTiSEEN. So it's kind of confusing, because the album is Murder Junkies, the band is Murder Junkies, but the band that played on Murder Junkies isn't the Murder Junkies. So it's kinda fucked up.
You've been, uh... you've got a lot of records, and played around a lot of cities kinda on and off, touring. How do you get folks for your band? You have a lot of different bands. How do you get the band members, the musicians?
Basically, they call me up. It's like, people call me all the time, like, "we'll play with you when you come here", "we'll play with you when you come there". And I've got, like, a book. I just write everybody's name and number, and I... like, well, "when I go to that area I'll call him and see what he can do, and I'll call him and see what he can do", and it's like...
So you've got a band in every state, huh?
Well, at one point I had a band everywhere. And if I didn't, I'd find one, and if I didn't have a band, I'd do the show alone, so it was, uh... I mean, I can do shows without a band, sometimes more intensely than I can with. But, I mean, to me, the... I don't worry about the band. I set up the show... I mean, the band... sometimes we'll have a show two weeks away and I won't even have the band yet. I'll be like, "well, I can get that next week". But I always seem to get it, y'know.
And it's like... and I don't want to be too well rehearsed, and I don't things to be real predictable. It's like, I want to get the set down, and I tell the band, well, "I'm gonna do my thing, and you do your thing... you know, try to... you've got to follow me as best you can, and you gotta do whatever you gotta do." But I, you know... it's just whoever is ready at the time will play. You know, people always say they're "gonna play", "gonna play". It's like, you know... when the time comes to play, you know, "if you're ready, you're playing", "if you're ready, you're playing", "if you're ready"... you know, "let's go and do it". It's like, I mean... I don't... nothing's really for sure with any band.
I noticed in press clippings, there was a show that was like an open mic night at a club, and you guys just walked in.
Mm-hmm.
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