First edition: No label
Second edition: Blood Records
Third edition: Distributed by Ax/ction Records
Recorded: Aug. 17, 1985 at the Twilite Room - Dallas, TX
Released: 1985
Tracks: Hard Candy Cock / I’m Gonna Rape You / Teacher’s Pet / Eat My Diarrhea / Cock On The Loose / I Wanna Fuck Myself / Abuse Myself, I Wanna Die / I Wanna Fuck Your Brains Out / Drink, Fight & Fuck / Scumfuc Tradition
Lineup: GG Allin (vocals), Gene Perfect (bass), Count Lyle (guitar), Johnny Random a.k.a. “Dill Do” (drums)
Despite all the self-hype of being a destructive madman and public animal throughout his career up to this point, GG never even left his hallmark, um, deposit, on a stage until July 31, 1985 in Peoria, Ill., at the kickoff of his Hated In The Nation tour with Peoria’s Bloody F. Mess. It was a planned event — he ate an entire bar of Ex-Lax a couple of hours before the show — while sharing the bill with Bloody's band Hate and high school straight-edge band Caustic Defiance. (Read a firsthand account of the gig here.) At this point, GG didn’t have a touring band; he’d simply take a bus to the next stop and hook up with people in that particular city. And when no band was available, he performed solo with a backing tape. The Texas Nazis was a one-off gig captured on tape at the Twilite Room in Dallas, Texas. Surprisingly, the band got through the entire set, diarrhea and all, without being shut down or thrown out (judging by the quietness of the crowd, it was a sparsely attended gig). The sound quality is excellent for a GG show, although you’re not really listening to this for the music: the between-song banter is the raison d’etre here. In fact, the ramblings are so perfect that Mykel Board liberally used portions to sprinkle between songs on ROIR’s “Hated In The Nation” compilation cassette. The first edition of the cassette has no mention of Blood Records, and the liner notes are hand-written by GG. The second edition sports the Blood Records label name and typed liner notes (which are different from the previous version). A third version most likely came a year or two later, distributed by Charlie Infection's Ax/ction Records, with a degraded xerox of the original artwork. None of the tapes I’ve owned were professionally manufactured; for as “popular” a release as this was, apparently Geege spent a lot of time dubbing tapes on his dual-cassette deck. Side two of the cassettes I own contain dubs of all of the Scumfucs vinyl releases.
Jimmie Bengsston a.k.a. the Swedish Scum interviewed Gene Perfect and Count Lyle in July 2005 and October 2004, respectively, and published it on his now-defunct website. Reprinted here with permission:
Hooking up with GG
Count Lyle: The way we hooked up with GG was that our bass player, Gene, had discovered him and started writing back and forth. Gene turned us on to GG and became pen pals with him.
Gene Perfect: In October or November 1983...I didn't even know who GG Allin was. I was publishing a fanzine called “Slamming Dandruff” at the time and was always looking for bands to interview. So I wrote to Blood Records … to see how I might get in touch with GG. A bit naive in retrospect because GG himself wrote back.
Setting up a tour
Gene Perfect: One day [GG] called and said that he'd be touring by himself and picking up different backing bands. He asked if I knew anyone who might be interested and so I said I could put something together for him myself. So Count Lyle and I started learning some Scumfucs tunes and talking to the people from the Twilite Room about a possible gig. This was the Summer of 1984, and Lyle and I were in a band called The Holy during that time.
Count Lyle: We had a band at the time called The Holy, so GG asked if we could possibly learn his songs so that he could come down to play Texas. He didn't have a band at the time that could travel, so this was his way around that.
Gene Perfect: GG, meanwhile, was still trying to get enough money saved to go on the road, so it wouldn't actually happen until the following summer [of 1985].
The Texas Nazis
Count Lyle: I'm not necessarily proud of the name Texas Nazis nowadays, but I remember that Gene picked it cuz it was really offensive. We weren't skin heads or racist at all, just trying to shock people in our own stupid ass way.
Gene Perfect: GG is telling me that him and Cheetah [Chrome] are gonna be touring together. The line-up was gonna be: GG, Cheetah on guitar, me on bass, and Lyle on drums. We even put out flyers all over town advertising this. But when I picked up GG from the bus stop, he explained that Cheetah couldn't make it. So we asked Johnny Random (soon to be re-christened Dil Do, courtesy of GG) to play drums and Lyle switched back to guitar.
Count Lyle: We got a drummer from another local band called The Vacant — whom GG dubbed Dil Do — and we worked up a set of GG songs.
Rehearsals
Count Lyle: GG showed up about 3 days before the gig on a Greyhound Bus and met us over at Gene's mom's apartment. She was pretty cool and didn't mind GG hanging out. We rehearsed a few times over at Dil's and it went well.
Gene Perfect: We only rehearsed all the songs once before we recorded on a 4-track in Random's bedroom. When we recorded, we went through the set list twice: the first time, per GG's request, we recorded the instruments only without the vocals, so he could use the tape whenever he didn't have a backing band.
The Twilite Room Gig
Gene Perfect: At the Twilite Room in Dallas on August 17th, 1985, we were actually the opening act (chronologically speaking, anyway). GG was definitely the headlining act, but he wanted to go on first. The other two bands were G-Spot and Model 12. I think this was only the second time GG took a dump on stage, the first being in Peoria, Illinois just a few nights before...
Count Lyle: We did the Twilite Room in Dallas for about 50-60 people. The gig was a usual GG show with shit, blood and chaos. Everyone stood at he back of the hall except a few brave skaters and a weird chick in a white dress. Of course GG jumped on the chick and got her pretty angry. Not one person attempted to help her as he rubbed his ass on her and got the white dress all dirty. Supposedly, someone filmed the gig, but I have never personally seen the tape.
Gene Perfect: We opened with our start-and-stop version of "Hard Candy Cock". By the second or third song, GG had already ran out into the audience and jumped on some girl. Then, during "Eat My Diarrhea", he took a dump on stage and started rolling around in it.
Count Lyle: “Eat My Diahrrea” was something our bass player, Gene Perfect, wrote. I forgot we played that until now, but it was just something funny we had and GG told us to play it if we wanted.
Gene Perfect: A friend of mine came up to the stage and told me that the girl GG jumped on was gonna be waiting for him after the show with a knife. That's when I grabbed the microphone and yelled "I don't care if you got a fuckin' MACHINE GUN!"
At one point he offered the audience one helluva deal — a record for either a beer or a joint. Well, it didn't take long to get some takers. If you've ever heard "Boozin And Pranks" you can tell when this happens. And GG wasted no time in firing up the doob on stage!
Count Lyle: He told us to play the songs no matter what he did. Of course we said yes, but really didn't understand why he gave us that instruction until we started up. The place went into chaos and we would not have been sure what to do, except that he told us to just keep playing the songs as we learned 'em. So that's what we did.
After the show
Count Lyle: After the show, GG collected $100 from the club and insisted that we split it three ways between Gene, me and him even though we didn't want any of it. But he insisted and finally we took it reluctantly. After hanging out in the parking lot for awhile, later that night he got back on the bus and rode back to New Hampshire reeking like hell I'm sure.
Gene Perfect: After the show, he drank a lot, got into a little more mischief pursuing uninterested women, and stunk really bad from the shit he'd been rolling around in. Still, I took him to the bus station in my car after offering to let him stay another night at our apt. It was a rock'n'roll experience I'll never forget! And I'm sure it was also very memorable for whoever wound up sitting next to him on the bus!
Dispelling some myths
Count Lyle: We saw an article in Spin magazine that said GG got stabbed that night in Dallas, but that was total bullshit. Some skinhead was threatening to fuck with GG in the parking lot, but never did anything. Most people were scared to approach him.
As far as the sticker on the front [of the Boozing And Pranks LP], I remember now that GG did have to go to the hospital after he got home for blood poisoning, but it was from his own self inflicted cuts with a bottle and not from a stab wound. He wasn't stabbed at the show. The female bystander that is mentioned is the girl in the white dress that he was fucking with during the performance.
Reviews
Does GG stand for "gross" and "grotesque"? His patter between songs (if you can call being hammered over the head with obscenity a song) is so absurd and vulgar it is impossible to take the man or his music seriously. All this exaggerated obscenity is not only offensive, it obscures some really good music, reminiscent of Chuck Berry. GG's voice is gritty, grating, and makes you pay attention. Too bad he has nothing to say.
— Dirt, 1985 (Dover, NH)
Basic slow trash thrash led by the asshole antics of none other than GG himself. Again, like all other GG material, this is beyond sexist, beyond obnoxious, beyond stupid — just simply fucked up!
— Maximum RockNRoll, April 1986 (Berkeley, CA)
This tape is pure GG, all the way. His band is lame but GG has more stage presence than most hardcore singers dream of. On this tape, he totally assaults the crowd with abuse. He carries the show all the way. I'm dying to see the video of this show. A lot of GG's "greatest hits" appear on this cassette so if you're a fan get it now!
— Scab Breath #3, early 1986 (Cambridge, MA)
Hilarious! The moment GG opens his mouth you know he is a riot. "We've only played together two times before," he announces. The Nazis then bast out fast loud obnoxious noise. This tape is more or elss a sampler of GG's twisted career. Featuring tracks like "Hard Candy Cock" from the EP of the same name, "I'm Gonna Rape You" from the "I Wanna Fuck Your Brains Out EP," "Scumfuc Tradition" from the "You'll Never Tame Me" cassette and even the incredible "Drink, Fight, And Fuck." Obnoxious, destructive, metal grunge plus GG's dialog with the crowd.
— Sound Choice, Summer 1986 (Ojai, CA)
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