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Well done! Black Flag were a major chapter in my life...and still are. I've seen Henry's spoken word show twice and proudly display the bars on my arm. I'm an old fart now but i remain a huge fan of this music era

Man, Chuck was a real one.

60 years later, four government inquiries and still no one knows the lyrics... Obscene indeed.

The REALLY funny thing? There's an "f bomb" in the background that's not part of the lyrics. The drummer messes up and yells it out.

awesome video

It would have been nice if the video showed some of the alternate lyrics people were claiming it contained, as well as a better shot of the actual original lyrics beyond a quick pan of the sheet music. Now I have to go do research...

How much money did we spend on this?

So much meticulous examination of lyrics, completely missing the word "f*ck!" yelled by the drummer after hitting his sticks together accidentally at 54 seconds mark: ua-cam.com/video/xKt75jUuKJY/v-deo.html ,😜🤫😂🤣🤟

I love it. I love all of this. It took me awhile to find this. I’m 20 and got into punk as a teen. I love Black Flag and listen to them very regularly. It’s awesome to watch this doc to get some insight into the band and what was going on. This is awesome, thank you!

This is a thoroughly well executed piece of work. Talk about making the most of the material available. Parts 1 and 2 do exactly that. The more I watched, the more I saw parallels between Greg Ginn and Tom Scholtz of Boston. Unexpected, and probably unorthodox, but there you go.

It was Chisester Bell who worked with Tainer. Their cylinder was made of a sort of cardboard covered with ozocrite wax and the groove was cut vertically. Edison's cylinders from 1888 were a solid wax-like metalic soap.

Henry Rollins is someone i've started to look up to in recent years! loved this series!

I wish we had the 1980s bands to tear apart the political landscape today which seems to have free will that it otherwise would have to keep in check. All of these bands would have roasted the recent Presidents and many of their stances, used legendary artwork for covers etc. Reagan got the brunt of it for being in the wrong place at the right time.

Black Flag are a truly truly amazing band

Beginning of '79-summer - start of BF, release of the Panic- nervous breakdown; then Reyes (chavo) replaces Morris, Jealous again comed out & he splits; fall of '80 Dez joins , 6pck single & Louie Louie released... Aug '81 Rollins (Hank Garfield) becomes 4th/final singer. 1982 was their peak year w/ debut l.p Damaged & T.v party single. The band soldiers on through 83. End of year the 2nd l.p My War recorded as 3piece w/ Ginn, Rollins & new/final (somewhat) drummer Billy Stevenson from the Descendents. '84- Kira Roessler (sister of Paul from the Screamers & 45 Grave) joins as final (somewhat "-") bassist & 3rd l.p Slip it in;; followed in '85 by Loose Nut. After their 5th/final l.p In my head their rhythm section departs & the band slowly crumbles, their final rhythm section was a couple random dudes & they disband by beginning of '86.

The band was Panic til the beginning of '79. When they recorded Nervous breakdown they were Panic & changed their name, put out the record & did their 1st gig. They didn't have a legitimate singer til Dez in late '80/ In Aug '81 Garfield/Rollins joined & solidified the lineup. '82 was their apex w/ the debut Damaged & the TV party single. 2 albums in '84- My War & Slip it in w/ Roessler & Stevenson replacing McDaniel & Cadena; 2 more l.p's in '85- Loose Nut & In my head. When Bill & Kira left the band withered into 💩. By the beginning of '86 they were over.

“You never give less than a 100% on THIS stage with THIS band.” Chuck Dukowski is the patron saint of punk. He’s consistently the hero in this story.

Black Flag best band from that scene. Best years were the later weird years, Manson and King Crimson was more like it.

Great stuff man!! 🤙🤙

I love that you gave Negativland the last shot in the record montage. What Ginn did to them was really heinous

Keith Morris and Ron Reyes sound like D-bags! Such fragile little creatures😂.

Black flag was the first punk I listened to 1990 I think , born in 80 but it stuck with me for life

When Ginn and Rollins can’t control the narrative of Black Flag they don’t participate. Kind of telling how Morris and Stephenson and Dukowski or anyone else involved is always happy to talk about the band… I know who I trust.

thank you for this!

i try to be open-minded but Kieth is just a naturally unlikeable human on every interview. pretentious, self-important, and w/ that annoying Cali Valley Dude draw. uuuuuugh.

Imagine a record company exec calling your band " immoral ". Really?!?

The SST ad that plays in this mentions the Meat Puppets, somehow the maker of this didn't think they warranted mention. Many would argue the Meat Puppets were the most important band on the label, after Black Flag. More still would argue more important than Black Flag.

Just found this video (parts 1 and 2) this evening, and WOW! So cool, takes me back to my misspent youth. 🤣 I saw the 1986 tour with Gone and Painted Willie, in Sacramento CA. Had no idea what was going on behind the scenes. Thanks for sticking with this, it was great!

Ron is a pussy/ the weakest link. Never deserved to be in the band

I get that you want to credit Black Flag with creating hardcore punk, but DOA was the band that created that...hell, even Henry Rollins and Keith Morris agree on that.

Greg Ginn is a piss of shit asshole, but Black Flag rules!

fruit cake Henry at the Living room, Providence.

Figures Ginn didn’t even listen to music until he was old enough to vote. His playing shows no natural musicality. It’s purely visceral and cerebral, with no sense of melody or harmony.

The story about the band eating other people's food off their plates after they had left the Mexican restaurant, something which apparently happened somewhat regularly, shows how far off the beaten path Black Flag were, and not in a good way. It reminds me of the way Charles Manson used to send his girls out to collect expired food from grocery store dumpsters, and he was proud of it and promoted the fact, as Rollins does here. Of course there was a direct connection between Manson and Rollins; they exchanged letters in the 80s and Rollins eventually produced an album for Manson which was never released.

"Why are the police against you?" "It's probably because they're scared that it represents change." Wrong. It was because the scene they deliberately stirred up was violent. People were hurt and property was damaged. The cops probably should've cracked down harder than they did. They could have been thrown in jail for inciting a riot on numerous occasions. And again, remember that the violence was deliberately cultivated and emphasized by Ginn and the band. They wanted the publicity that came with it.

Today's aging Trump worshipping libertarians.

Henry came on the time of 80s, He did a great job

The FLAG version that played in 2014 is the best reunion that has happened. Greg Ginn has his own head up his ass.

the good black flag....once henry got his hands on it, he destroyed it.

Grew up going to punk shows in Sacramento in the mid 80’s saw so many cool bands but never saw black flag live . Still have some of their albums , I need to get a turntable . I smelled someone smoking a clove cigarette the other day … brought all the memories back

Saw them in 1985 in Houston at Cardis. had no clue who they were. Was pretty close to the stage. THe guitarist guitar had a big chunk missing , I remember HRs huge tattoo on his back, and they played a cover of some Zepplin song. Can't say that I enjoyed it all that much but appreciated the change from the C&W shows i usually went to.

As i got older I liked the later stuff more and more. It's the best era for me. Otherwise I grew up listening to the SST bands. One of the best labels ever.

crappiest band ever. henry rollins is a knob. pile of crap

There are most likely a few people out there so dumb that after watching this video, they said: "I didn't know Michael Jackson was in Black Flag?"

As a student of William Clarke Quantrill , I love your name!

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I just finished watching P1 & P2. Nicely done. Wish it was longer. I was a teenager in the 80's and got interested in Black Flag after moving to a new school and meeting a classmate that loaned me his cassette of, My War. Opened up a new world. Fifty-five years old now. Still listening. Those guys had balls of steel.

Keith Morris >>>>>>

Being an angry youth, I grew up on Black Flag, etc. Many moons later it is easy to see it as the tool of subversion that it is. Kind of like pretending to put out a fire with gasoline.

Awesome Work👏👏👏👏