Behold: A GG Allin designer toy! Specifically, this fine collectible is an "Extra Filthy Bloody Edition" Allin figurine "loaded into a full color "splatter" box." I remember watching a dub of Hated, the documentary about the transgressive punk performer, on a pre-release review VHS at Mark F's pad in 1994 and being thoroughly disgusted, which, I guess, was the whole point. (Here's the NSFW trailer.) The GG Allin figure, limited to an edition of 500, is 7-inches tall and sells for $16.95 from Aggronautix. Here's what my pal Gil Kaufman wrote about it at MTV.com:
"GG Allin Bobblehead... Now With More Blood and Filth"Aggronautix, the same demented people who have created wobbly-necked figurines of such similarly obscure punk rock icons as Tesco Vee of the Meatmen, Milo of the Descendents and the barely-legal Dwarves, have truly gone all out for the second edition of the Allin figure, which commemorates the scat-loving punk icon in all his messy glory.
From the bloody hematoma on his forehead to the true Manchu beard-mustache combo, bloody cuts on his body and guaranteed-to-offend tattoos, this seven-inch tall likeness of the late punker best known for using the stage as a toilet, performing naked and attacking his fans is for the hardcore only.
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I once played a show the night after a GG Allen concert. We were down 2 mics because he had shoved them up his ass.
What better day to celebrate a rapist pedophile who eats his own shit that Halloween!? (interobang!)
Hooray!
Yes I have seen him live. Yes it was good. Yes he was arrested.
I've never been so scared shitless than the time I was at a GG Allin show.
The late great magazine Motorbooty summed up GG the best. he threatened to kill himself onstage but died of an overdose - 500 points.
He epitomizes that 90's Research on the edge sub-culture shock with no substance - like Joe Coleman ect.
i just tried to tweet the link to this, for a friend who would probably buy one of these, and was told that this was a link for "a known malware site." what? really??
Needs more shit for that true touch of authenticity.
I already own it.
:)
GG Allin might be the worst thing to ever happen to punk rock. He should not be celebrated with figurines - he should be forgotten.
Yeah, we wouldn't want punk rock to get a bad name for itself or anything.
I don't think GG was bad for punk rock-- he was trying to push the boundaries of what Iggy and John Lydon (and I guess Gibby Haynes) had done on stage, and I think set a limit to the definition of "extreme" that will be hard for anyone to pass (thank god).
Considering what a screwed up early home life the boy christened "Jesus Christ Allin" by his messianic father had, what he ended up was far better than most of the other things he could have become.
Crappy corporate cookie-cutter bands like Sum 41 and Avril Lavigne are far worse for the legacy of what is considered "punk rock."
I never saw GG Allin but I did once see the Dwarves play at Call The Office in London Ontario(90 or 91). They were only maybe 3 'songs' into the set when the lead singer, (as pale as Edgar Winter and stark naked) emptied his beer and threw the bottle against the brick wall. This sent fragments of glass all over the place and this long-haired hippie-looking guy (who I'd never seen before) who'd gotten hit with a chunk threw it back. And hit him. Kind of a fluke shot, opening up a major wound in the singer's neck - blood was soon all over his powder-white skinny torso. But the dude kept on, gamely, screaming-singing and now also flinging his blood around, but they soon realized that this was not some trivial nick, they said 'thank-you very much, you've been a wonderful audience' (actually it was more like fuck youze all) and that was it, the show was over.
I think even for them this was an unusually violent end to a show - I remember the singer mentioned it in an interview I read a few years ago (maybe around the time they got dumped from Subpop or SST or whoever after they had faked his death)
I wonder if Chicken John has one of these bobbling on the dash of his big green bus?
gotta have it!