GG Allin’s last video footage of his life - DVLH - (13 minutes on the streets of New York City)

GG Allin on DVD The Gas Station was probably not the smartest place to hold a GG Allin show. A converted service station in the heart of New York’s East Village, its small, dank garage, which still reeks of oil and gasoline, is now a performance space, while the fenced-in yard serves as an artist’s studio, studded with jagged metal sculptures and surrounded by junked cars, rusty scrap iron, and towers of welded machine parts. An especially dangerous locale for a riot, which was how most GG Allin shows ended. The Gas Station show was the culmination of Allin’s first tour after being released from prison in Michigan, where he had been serving a three-year sentence for cutting a woman with a knife in concert. Fronting a number of bands since his debut in 1980, Allin was known for a particularly puerile brand of Stooges/Dolls-inspired punk, but was most notorious for live performances that were unprecedented in the extremes he took to assault and disgust
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