Morbid Fact Du Jour For November 14, 2011
Today’s Crappy Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
GG Allin was determined to become the most outrageous rock performer of all time. He was known for his stage performances and for finding an expressive use of excrement, never failing to defecate or urinate at least one time before the show was over. Allin took laxatives, drank heavily, and shot up to make sure he could crap on cue. To increase the audience’s sensory experience, he rolled in his dung, injured himself, and taunted the most aggressive in the crowd, which many times nearly resulted in a riot. At this point in his career, because of the damage he did to sound equipment and other venue property, the plug was pulled often after only one or two songs. By the late 80′s he was drawing crowds by promising to commit suicide on stage, philosophically believing you should go to heaven at your strongest. He also got arrested frequently for indecent exposure and assault and battery, and was once charged with rape and torture. Psychologists examined GG and deemed him “not psychotic,” and of at least average intelligence, though with narcissistic and masochistic tendencies. His oddness, or perhaps his father’s premonition, got him appearances and coverage on numerous talk shows including The Jerry Springer Show and Geraldo. During his last performance in New York City, in 1993, they yanked the power after the second song. He trashed the club and left in a rage, walking the streets naked and covered in feces. When he went back to his friend Johnny Puke’s flat, on Avenue B, Allin overdosed on heroin and died. He was 36. Strung out groupies showed up, and not thinking he was dead, only severely dosed, propped GG up for pictures. At his open-casket wake, he was dressed in a black leather jacket and a jock strap, with one hand holding the neck of a bottle of Jim Beam.
Culled from: Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages
