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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

On Tour / Upcoming Black Flag To Play El Corazón

Posted by Kelly O on Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM

Tickets just went on sale for the July 19th Seattle show. I would guess this will sell the f*ck out, at a venue of this size?

Full 2013 tour dates here. From the press release:

BLACK FLAG has reformed and is in the process of putting finishing touches on a new album with founder Greg Ginn on guitar, Ron Reyes on vocals, Gregory Moore on drums and Dale Nixon on bass.

The one constant member throughout the history of BLACK FLAG, Ginn — named one of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time" — defined the west coast punk sound and the DIY ethos of punk rock. Greg Ginn also currently plays with Good For You and Greg Ginn And The Royal We.

Ron Reyes of Decline Of The Western Civilization fame was the BLACK FLAG vocalist from The Church / Jealous Again era. Reyes also currently plays guitar in Piggy.

Gregory Moore has played with Gone and BLACK FLAG (2003) and brings his relentless and driving drum style to the band.

Notorious for not touring, Dale Nixon never-the-less played bass on the My War album and is the author of iconic BLACK FLAG bass lines such as Jealous Again, Nervous Breakdown, Six Pack, TV Party, Revenge, Gimme Gimme Gimme etc... etc... While Dale has lent his skills to the new album, he is currently contractually obligated for a stint on Celebrity Rehab. Still, as he has always done in the past, he will continue to provide insight and spiritual guidance to the current
bass player.

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Funny how this will sell out yet nobody showed up at Ginn's show a couple of years ago at the Comet. When i was a kid my parents used to drag me out to oldies revue shows, so good thing this is all ages. Congrats to Ginn on cashing in while he can. Shorty can't eat no books. I'm 100% behind him doing this.

But if you're spending 34 bucks to see this show and you didn't go to the Comet show, YOU'RE A CORNBALL ASSHOLE WHO CARES MORE ABOUT YOURSELF AND NOSTALGIA THAN THE FUCKING ARTIST WHO CREATED IT ALL.

also, fuck El Corzon!

Posted by Ratman on March 13, 2013 at 2:14 PM

Seeing Greg Ginn "And The Royal We" was two of the most tedious hours of my entire life that I wish I had back.

Posted by Opening for one of your idols isn't always the best idea on March 13, 2013 at 2:43 PM

@1 Couldn't you just prefer Black Flag songs to Ginn solo songs? Not that Im not a cornball asshole who cares more about nostalgia than the artist (I gotta like Greg Ginn too?), I did go to that Flag tribute night at the Comet and it was fucking awesome. Even though Punk Is Bullshit, I just bought tickets.

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on March 13, 2013 at 3:18 PM

@3 I'm glad you paid $8 to see a cover band and not $9 to see the guy who wrote the songs when he was traveling with a very good rock band a few years ago. Pop before art. It's cool.

Posted by The Process of Weeding Out on March 13, 2013 at 3:37 PM

@3, why would you think Punk is Bullshit, yet like Black Flag? Or is BF an exception?

Posted by neo-realist on March 13, 2013 at 4:11 PM

To quote The Slog Movie , "Hey Greg, where are our royalties?"

Posted by gttrgst on March 13, 2013 at 6:06 PM

Sometimes I imagine the commenters on this blog are people locked in a basement. Once a day for 20 minutes, they're let out to quickly glance at LineOut and hastily pound responses on a keyboard. Eventually, they're given a baked potato and shuffled back into the basement until the next day.

Posted by derek_erdman

on March 13, 2013 at 7:25 PM

@7 I could reminisce about seeing them at a severely oversold (as usual) show at Lawrence Opera House, 9/29/84, flip-frying as my ears sustained permanent damage, sucking down the 3.2 beer (you could carry in coolers with that!) and then the 5.0 beer beneath it and then the vodka at the bottom, taking car breaks every half hour to smoke-chill the cid-fever that nine out of ten freaks I knew had dipped into that fuck hot evening and then after the show south of town stopped near Wells Overlook rolling another sedative saw the popo flash by on the other side of the two-lane highway, put on my lights to head back and as I pulled out saw him flip around to assess my missing tail-light, pulled over and passed a field sobriety test, then cuffed because I had a warrant for an unpaid ten dollar ticket for riding my bike on the sidewalk exactly a year before. He let my friend (who always drank twice as much as I did and offed himself at twenty-six from the pain of liver and pancreas damage from his liter vodka a day habit) drive my car, put me in the front seat of his car, and took me downtown for a bright lit cell of my own until bailed out a few hours later. My friend was pulled over on his way for rolling through the streets of town ten miles an hour at 1am and they just told him to follow them to the station.
...but really that might overshadow the twenty-six words put into the original post. As Henry put it to close out the show, "Okay we're going back to get our cocaine and our limousines now..."

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Posted by gttrgst on March 13, 2013 at 8:24 PM

man, a buncha fackin' goofs in this thread, yeah?

oh yeah and there's no way I'm going to this. Ginn needs to make nice with Rollins. Or Morris. or Dez.

Posted by LEE. on March 13, 2013 at 10:33 PM

@ 1, everything Ginn has done since Black Flag has sucked hard. As well as a good portion of late Black Flag material. And I'm not going to be optimistic about whatever new thing is coming out, even though I have a hard time picturing Ron Reyes doing anything that isn't in the same style as early Black Flag. (Just try to imagine him singing "You're Not Evil" or "I Can See You.")

However much this new record sucks, Black Flag is still going to play Jealous Again and the other classics. Greg Ginn solo, or "The Royal We" or whatever outfit he's playing with NOT called "Black Flag" won't.

Of COURSE it's going to sell out. And of COURSE nobody gives a shit about anything else Greg Ginn does.

Posted by Matt from Denver on March 14, 2013 at 7:12 AM

it seems that @1 and @4 have a little hero worship problem and can't see/hear anything accurately with those rose colored glasses/hearing aids(?).

KILL THE IDOLATORS!

Posted by yos-wa on March 14, 2013 at 8:25 AM

If you’re reading this post and didn’t go see Piggy at Darrel’s Tavern in Shoreline you’re a fucking asshole. I’m a fucking asshole.

Posted by Greydon Clark on March 14, 2013 at 10:34 AM

@1+4 Look me in the eyes and tell me: when was the last time you jammed that Taylor Texas Corrugators album?

@5: Looks like you weren't on the internet at all last week, huh?

Posted by J. Burns on March 14, 2013 at 10:35 AM

@7: no kidding. All Stranger staff deserve a medal for putting up with the never-ending asshole parade that flocks to the comment sections of its website. I fail to believe that these people are functioning members of society.

This reunion is stupid and I'm definitely attending. I have a tattoo of this band, don't really have a choice.

Posted by parkerl on March 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM

@7, THAT POTATO WAS RAW, YOU ASSHOLE.

I saw Black Flag circa 1980 in the living room of a punk house I stupidly can't remember the name of on 8th Ave NE in the U-district, just down the block from Peaches Records and Tapes (it's not there anymore). The house was almost destroyed. I don't need to see them again.

Now where's my fuckin' potato?

Posted by Fnarf