BLACK FLAG

One of the most influential punk rock bands to come after the "punk' revolution was Black Flag. Their style was branded Hardcore with an almost heavy metal flare. Their humorous and political lyrical content, along with guitarist Gregg Ginns' chops, separated the band from being labelled heavy metal.

In 1977, guitarist Gregg Ginn and bassist Chuck Dukowski formed Black Flag adding drummer Brian Migdol and vocalist Keith Morris. The band released their first album in 1978, an e.p. entitled, NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

The following year after the release, Morris departed from the band to form the Circle Jerks and Migdol left as well. Replacing Morris was Chavo Pederast and on drums, Robo. To thicken the sound, Black Flag added a second guitarist, Dez Cadena.

With the huge underground success, Black Flag signed a record contract in 1981 with Unicorn records which was a subsidiary of MCA. During this year, Black Flag recorded their first full length release, DAMAGED. Unicorn Records refused to release the record because of it's "vulgar" nature so Ginn decided to release it on his own SST Records.

This caused a big problem for Black Flag. After the record was released in stores, Unicorn Records sued Black Flag and SST. As a result, Black Flag would not and could not release anything with their name or logo appearing on it. Black Flag decided to keep touring and released the double album EVERYTHING WENT BLACK which did not mention the bands name or logo on it, but instead mentioned the names of the musicians on the cover, respectively.

In 1983 Unicorn records went bye-bye-bankrupt! And the band restored their rights to the name and logo.