Ginn performed with more than a dozen different bands over the next 25 years. Rollins continued performing as the lead singer of the Rollins Band, but he later turned his attention to acting and spent much of his time delivering spoken-word monologues and managing his publishing house, 21361. As the focus of the American independent music scene shifted to the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s, SST lost much of its cachet. With the demise of Black Flag, Ginn and Dukowski devoted their time to the management of SST, and they signed such acts as the punk reggae combo Bad Brains and the New York art rock band Sonic Youth. Later recordings flirted with heavy metal, and the band also provided musical accompaniment to Rollins’s poetry before breaking up in 1986. After settling on Rollins as its vocalist, Black Flag released Damaged (1981), its first full-length album. In 1978 Ginn and Dukowski founded SST Records to distribute the band’s music, and the label’s first release was the single “Nervous Breakdown.” Along with Slash Records, SST became the avatar of the West Coast punk scene, and its early roster included seminal hardcore acts the Minutemen, the Meat Puppets, and Hüsker Dü. Appealing to a largely white male audience that made “slam dancing” (the purposeful collision of bodies) in the “mosh pit” (the clump of audience members in front of the bandstand) a ritual at live performances, Black Flag brought a fury and aggression to its music and performance seldom equaled by other hardcore bands. February 13, 1961, Washington, D.C., U.S.), Ron Reyes, Dez Cadena, Kira Roessler, and Anthony Martinez.įounded in 1977 in Los Angeles, Black Flag focused on themes such as boredom and the banality of suburban life and accelerated punk’s blistering tempo to an even more breakneck pace, helping to establish many of the conventions of hardcore. Later members included Henry Rollins (original name Henry Garfield b. September 18, 1955, Los Angeles, California), and drummer Brian Migdol. February 1, 1954), lead singer Keith Morris (b. June 8, 1954, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.), bassist Chuck Dukowski (b. The original members were guitarist Greg Ginn (b. This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.īlack Flag, American band whose extensive touring and prolific recording helped to popularize hard-core punk, the genre that arose in California in the early 1980s in response to the punk movement of the 1970s.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.
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