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** People who've have covered his songs include Music/FaithNoMore, Music/{{CKY}}, the 69 Eyes, Maryslim, Music/{{Beck}}, Bus Station Loonies, Music/TheLemonheads, No Age, The Spits, and Dum Dum Girls. Music/EmilyPukisAndTheVagrants began as a solid GG Allin cover band.
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** People who've have covered his songs include Music/FaithNoMore, Music/{{CKY}}, the 69 Eyes, Maryslim, Music/{{Beck}}, Music/{{Beck|Musician}}, Bus Station Loonies, Music/TheLemonheads, No Age, The Spits, and Dum Dum Girls. Music/EmilyPukisAndTheVagrants began as a solid GG Allin cover band.
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Allin's increasing mental instability, drug abuse (it's been said that he'd take any drug put in front of him), and antagonistic behavior eventually resulted in him splitting from the Jabbers in 1984, ending the longest tenure he'd ever have with a band. GG went on to front several underground PunkRock bands, such as the Scumfucs, the [=AIDS=] Brigade, and the Cedar Street Sluts, and recorded numerous albums that are now out of print. As the 1980s progressed, his live shows became more extreme in nature thanks to GG's unquenchable desire to shock and provoke. It culminated at a 1985 show in Peoria, Illinois, where after taking laxatives earlier that day, he defecated on-stage, and the disgusted reaction of everyone in attendance convinced the antisocial GG to make it a regular part of his act.
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Allin's increasing mental instability, drug abuse (it's been said that he'd take any drug put in front of him), and antagonistic behavior eventually resulted in him splitting from the Jabbers in 1984, ending the longest tenure he'd ever have with a band. GG went on to front several underground PunkRock bands, such as the Scumfucs, the [=AIDS=] Brigade, and the Cedar Street Sluts, and recorded numerous albums that are now out of print. As the 1980s progressed, his live shows became more extreme in nature thanks to GG's unquenchable desire to shock and provoke. It culminated at a 1985 show in Peoria, Illinois, where after taking laxatives earlier that day, [[ExcrementStatement he defecated on-stage, on-stage,]] and the disgusted reaction of everyone in attendance convinced the antisocial GG to make it a regular part of his act.
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Despite being such a mentally unstable and proudly repugnant human being, GG did have a cult following, whether from the outermost fringes of society, or just extremely dark-humored people who loved the ugly spectacle (both camps persist to this day). It should come as no surprise that due to GG's antisocial behavior, on stage and off, he wound up serving a significant amount of jail sentences, the longest of which was for the alleged assault of a female fan.
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Despite being such a mentally unstable and proudly repugnant human being, GG did have a cult following, whether from the outermost fringes of society, or just extremely dark-humored people who loved the ugly spectacle (both camps persist to this day). It should come as no surprise that due to GG's antisocial behavior, on stage and off, he wound up serving a significant amount of jail sentences, the longest of which was for the alleged assault of a female fan. \n Allegedly, Music/KurtCobain and a couple of members of Music/TheFlamingLips once visited GG in jail, just for a laugh, only for GG to get annoyed and curse them out.
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* ExcrementStatement: One of the more infamous aspects of his live shows was that, as mentioned above, he loved taking a dump mid-set, and then either smearing himself with it, throwing it at audience members, or both! When questioned by Creator/GeraldoRivera about why he relieved himself so often during concerts, GG justified it as only GG would:
-->'''GG Allin:''' My body is the rock and roll temple, and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people, whether they like it or not.
-->'''GG Allin:''' My body is the rock and roll temple, and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people, whether they like it or not.
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Inspired by rock & roll at an early age, GG began playing drums for local bands, and he and Merle formed a band called Malpractice. It gave GG his start in the music business, which eventually resulted in him fronting The Jabbers starting in 1977. Their first album, ''Always Was, Is, And Always Shall Be'' was released in 1980. Taking more of a PopPunk-ish direction than his later albums, it remains likely his ''least'' controversial album.
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Inspired by rock & roll at an early age, age -- even his cross-dressing was informed by his love of the Music/NewYorkDolls -- GG began playing drums for local bands, and he and Merle formed a band called Malpractice. It gave GG his start in the music business, which eventually resulted in him fronting The Jabbers starting in 1977. Their first album, ''Always Was, Is, And Always Shall Be'' was released in 1980. Taking more of a PopPunk-ish direction than his later albums, it remains likely his ''least'' controversial album.
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* ''Expose Yourself: The Singles Collection 1977-1991'' (compilation) (2004)
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* BeneathTheMask: For all his anti-social behavior onstage and in public, a series of phone calls between GG and his manager (taped without GG's knowledge) reveals him to have been quite an intelligent guy with an agenda. Among other things, he revealed a love of classic country music (some fans have speculated he was toying with going in this direction) and went into great detail about setting up tours and tracking record sales. He even revealed that while in prison, he would act a different way every single day to keep the other inmates from messing with him.
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* BeneathTheMask: For all his anti-social behavior onstage and in public, a series of phone calls between GG and his manager (taped without GG's knowledge) reveals him to have been quite an intelligent guy with an agenda. Among other things, he revealed a love of classic country music (some fans have speculated he was toying with going in this direction) and went into great detail about setting up tours and tracking record sales. He even revealed that while in prison, he would act a different way every single day to keep the other inmates from messing with him. You can hear some of these conversations as bonus tracks on ''The Troubled Troubadour.''
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* BlackComedy: In an era where parents would actually sue metal bands, claiming the music made their children kill themselves, GG, seemingly out of spite, wrote "Commit Suicide." It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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* BlackComedy: In an era During the 1980s, there was a period of time where parents would actually sue metal bands, HeavyMetal musicians, such as Music/OzzyOsbourne and Music/JudasPriest, claiming the their music made their children kill themselves, GG, seemingly out of spite, wrote themselves with subliminal messaging. GG was never one to pass up an opportunity at shock value, so ''Freaks, Faggots, Drunks & Junkies'' has the song "Commit Suicide." It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, with nothing remotely subliminal about it.
