1. GG Allin's music was often poorly recorded and produced, given limited distribution, and met with mostly negative reviews from critics, although he maintained a cult following throughout and after his career.
39 Facts About GG Allin
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GG Allin promised for several years that he would commit suicide on stage during one of his concerts, but he instead died from a drug overdose on June 28,1993, at age 36.
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GG Allin was given this name because his father told his wife that Jesus Christ had visited him, and told him that his newborn son would be a great man in the vein of the Messiah.
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GG Allin's family lived in a log cabin with no running water or electricity in Groveton, New Hampshire.
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GG Allin's father was an abusive religious fanatic who threatened his family with death, digging graves in their cellar and threatening to fill them in the near future.
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GG Allin "despised pleasure" and allowed his family "very little contact with others".
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GG Allin stated that his mother attempted to escape before she filed for divorce, but Merle Sr.
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GG Allin wrote most of his songs on an acoustic guitar.
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GG Allin graduated from Concord High School in Concord, Vermont, in 1975, and shortly after formed the band Malpractice with his older brother, local musician Jeff Penney, and Brian Demurs.
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GG Allin played the drums for Malpractice until the band separated in 1977.
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Tension within the Jabbers mounted as GG Allin grew uncontrollable, uncompromising, and vicious.
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GG Allin first defecated onstage in 1985 at a show in Peoria, Illinois.
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GG Allin idolized country music legend Hank Williams and saw himself as a kindred spirit.
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GG Allin recorded his own rewrites of Hank Williams Jr.
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Later, GG Allin released another country album, Carnival of Excess, his most refined set of recordings.
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In 1989, GG Allin wrote to Maximum RocknRoll stating that he would commit suicide on stage on Halloween 1989.
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GG Allin continued his threat each following year but ended up imprisoned each following Halloween.
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In June 1993, GG Allin made an appearance on The Jane Whitney Show.
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GG Allin openly stated that he would commit suicide and take his fans with him.
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In late 1989, GG Allin was arrested and charged with "assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder" of a female acquaintance in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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GG Allin admitted to cutting her, burning her, and drinking her blood, but insisted that she did the same thing to him.
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GG Allin claimed that inconsistencies in the woman's statements to authorities supported his assertions.
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Ultimately GG Allin plea bargained to the reduced charge of felonious assault, and he was imprisoned from December 25,1989, to March 26,1991.
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GG Allin wrote The GG Allin Manifesto during this period.
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GG Allin's growing notoriety led to appearances on various television shows: Geraldo, The Jerry Springer Show and The Jane Whitney Show.
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At the time of his death, GG Allin was making plans for a spoken-word album.
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GG Allin mentioned a somewhat unlikely European tour, enthusiastically talking about it in the hours before his death.
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GG Allin became pregnant, and their daughter, Nico Ann Deneault, was born on March 13,1986.
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At the time of his death, GG Allin's partner was Liz Mankowski.
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Allin was a self-identified extreme individualist, misanthrope, and anti-authoritarian, promoting lawlessness and violence against police officers in many of his lyrics; his essay, The GG Allin Manifesto, was intended to summarize his personal philosophy.
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GG Allin revealed on Geraldo that he believed his body to be a temple of rock and roll, and that his flesh, blood, and bodily fluids were a communion to the people.
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GG Allin has said that if he was not a performer, he would probably be a serial killer or a mass murderer.
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GG Allin planned to kill himself onstage on Halloween many times in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but was stopped due to prison sentences around Halloween each year.
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GG Allin ended up outside, leading a group of fans through the neighborhood.
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Later that morning, Puke noticed that GG Allin still lay motionless.
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GG Allin posed for Polaroids with the corpse before calling for an ambulance.
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GG Allin was two months short of his 37th birthday.
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GG Allin's grave was frequently vandalized with urine, feces, cigarette butts, and alcohol by so-called fans, an act that was strongly discouraged by GG's mother Arleta and his brother.
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GG Allin's tombstone was removed in 2010 after it was knocked off its base by a so-called fan.