[kj] GG Allin

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

When I was really into punk in the pre-Internet days, and the magazine 
Maximum Rock n Roll was the default national US underground punk zine, I 
actually wrote Merle Allin and bought bootleg video tapes from him a few 
times via snail mail. He'd advertise his tapes for sale in MRR. He did 
have some really rare freakin' live stuff. (This was also all 
pre-YouTube, of course, and trading copies of VHS tapes of hardcore 
bands was a sort of underground cottage industry) -- I b0ught some stuff 
from him, never knowing until years later he was GG's brother ad band mate.

For whatever it's worth, he was always nice to me in correspondence, 
prompt in getting me me material. Way more prompt about it than many 
eBay sellers or big corporations.


-Oliver




Tim Bucknall wrote:

> although i don't see it myself i feel compelled  to quote my friend 

> who knew him back in Boston:

> "he wasn't like  most people thought he was"

> to which i sarcastically  replied "so he wasn't covered in excrement 

> when you knew him then?"

> to which she (clearly annoyed) replied "nooo"

>  

> well i guess that film we all saw was a hallucination!

>  

> we're supposed to catch up on friday i'll bring him up and what the 

> deal is

>  

> funnily enough his Brother Merle is a major tape trader who supposedly 

> has a load of Nirvana & other rarities but he only likes to do 

> business on the phone.

> he's supposed to be a really nice guy but i just don't have the balls 

> to phone up  any member of the allin family!