Label: self-released
Recorded: Circa Spring / early Summer 1985, Roxbury, MA
Released: Circa Fall 1985
Tracks: Fuck Women I’ve Never Had / I Wanna Fuck Myself / Needle Up My Cock / Ass Fuckin, Butt Suckin, Cunt Lickin, Masturbation / You’ll Never Tame Me / Torture You / Bite It You Scum / Scumfuc Tradition / Abuse Myself, I Wanna Die / Kill The Children, Save The Food / I Wanna Piss On You / I Fuck The Dead
Lineup: GG Allin (vocals, guitar), Al Mead a.k.a. “Al Lee Slime” (guitar, bass), Tim Lacombe a.k.a. “Tim (Trash) Toms” (drums)
The pinnacle of mid-period GG. The recording and performances elevate this cassette to the quintessential release for any newcomer wanting to discover GG in full trashy scumfuc regalia. GG, Al Mead and Tim Toms — same lineup as on the prior Scumfucs EP, with the fictional Mucus McCain again credited on guitar — rented a rehearsal studio in Roxbury, Mass., and banged out these 12 tunes in a marathon 12-hour session. Though recorded prior to the Hated In The Nation tour, the cassette album wasn't actually released until afterwards. The collection was a combination of songs that Al wrote, a few new GG tunes, and GG the country music fan even snuck in covers of Hank Williams Jr.’s “Family Tradition” and “Women I’ve Never Had,” most assuredly unbeknownst to the bulk of his fans. Also, “I Wanna Piss On You” is a reworking of the Jabbers then-unreleased “Nuke Attack,” written by Rob Basso.
Al Mead recalls:
“Was a long fun day. We both had songs and parts pre-written and put it all together there. GG played rhythm guitar on his songs, me on mine. My songs were the more metal sounding ones like “Needle Up My Cock,” “Bite It You Scum,” “Abuse Myself,” “Kill The Children” and “I Fuck The Dead.” Some of the lyrics he wrote on the spot in one take, just bang of the top of his head. “Abuse Myself” he made up the words in one take on the fly. He added his own variations to the songs and made them his own. The horrible but awesome cringing leads were done the same, all in one take sometimes not even listening to the rhythm track.On the songs:
“He inspired me before I knew him when I wrote those songs. He hadn't quite morphed fully into the alter ego yet. When I wrote some of the songs I thought of him as a character I was writing about, and GG became the character for real after that.On recording:
I wrote the words on Needle, Bite It, Fuck The Dead, and Kill The Children, which was right when “We Are The World” came out [March 1985], and was the Scumfuc answer to that. GG did make them his own though and changed things how he saw fit.”
“We had a 4 track cassette with a mixer, so the first layer was drums mixed through a 6 channel mixer to one record channel, and rhythm guitar. GG and Tim played his, me and Tim played mine, we recorded in the same order of the record. Switched off a few times. After that I dubbed in the bass on channel 3. Then we took a break and bounced the mix to channel 4. Then we added vocals, and leads, and the pissing sound at the very end of “I Wanna Piss On You.”
The vocals went through the guitar amp and then mic'd to the recorder. Most of the feedback throughout is GG moving it around making noise during vocals. Cool effect, and gave it that cheap ’n nasty sound.
When we recorded and wrote stuff there was no drugs or booze, it was 100% focused on the task at hand. The recordings were purposely made to sound cheap and nasty but still solid.”
Special thanks to Al Mead for the background info!
Reviews
One of New Hampshire's true treasures. Backed by unusually competent musicianship, GG rants and raves his way through tender love ballads like "I Fuck The Dead" and "I Wanna Piss On You." Little shock value and, as someone once told me, Iggy Pop did it all 15 years ago, but it's pure GG. Love him, hate him, you know that as long as there's a New Hampshire, there will always be GG Allin.
— Bang! (Medford, MA)
GG will never change. Rockin' early punk-style garage numbers and every combination of obscenity and sexual depravity. We decided a woman should review GG to see if he really is offensive, and I think that if you are offended with such absurdities as "I Wanna Fuck Myself" ("'cause I'm the best") or "Needle Up My Cock" or "Kill The Children, Save The Food" and you don't see the obvious ridiculous satire, you're just as sexually repressed as GG. If you like to hear stringss of cuss words for 45 minutes, find this tape.
— Maximum RockNRoll (San Francisco, CA)
Oh, all right. Let’s give GG one more kick and be done with it.
For fans of the aforementioned EP, here’s the full-length 12-song cassette long player with all the hits you (fortunately) missed. Even more miserable than before. Wotta swine you are, Allin.
New classics of the fecal rock genre emerge here only in “Bite It You Scum” and “Kill The Children, Save The Food.” All here for your aural self-abuse. He’s a rotter, that GG.
Hey, we can’t help but wonder whatever became of long-time Allin producer Dick Urine. Did even he finally smarten up? Not bloody likely.
This, naturally, is a stinking waste of time. Not worth the mylar it’s recorded on.
A band that doesn’t deserve the honor of being banned. And yet they are. Take it off … owww! Thank Christ that’s over…
— The Newpaper (Providence, RI)
I knew the Geege had it in him...wonderfully grungey toilet-rock like "Fuck Women I've Never Had" "Ass Fuckin Cunt Suckin Clit Lickin Masturbation" that ya gotta love, cept B-4, when GG used ta play wimpy pop shit, he had real clear production, now ya can't hear nuttin at all...c'mon GG, get it together!!! Buy it or he's gonna go to your house and shit on you...[B+]
— Sick Teen (Manitowoc, WI)
Scan courtesy of Chris Minicucci
The boy returns with his third release of the year. As usual, the debauchery, vileness and poor recordings that give GG his musical identity are highly apparent especially on cuts like "Needle Up My Cock" and "Ass Fuckin', Butt Suckin', Cunt Lickin'. One dimensional? Hmmm.
— xXx #12 (Marblehead, MA) Fall 1985
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