Greg Ginn

Greg Ginn
Greg Ginn performing with Black Flag in 2013
Background information
Birth name Gregory Regis Ginn
Also known as Dale Nixon
Born (1954-06-08) June 8, 1954
Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Genres Hardcore punk, punk rock, free jazz, punk jazz, heavy metal
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, record producer
Instruments Guitar, bass guitar, theremin, vocals
Years active 1976–present
Labels SST, Cruz
Associated acts Black Flag, Gone, Confront James, Mojack

Gregory Regis "Greg" Ginn (born June 8, 1954) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer, best known for being the leader of and primary songwriter for the hardcore punk band Black Flag, which he founded and led from 1976–86, and again in 2003. The band announced another reunion on January 25, 2013.[1] He was born in Tucson, Arizona.[2] Since breaking up Black Flag, Ginn has recorded a few solo albums, and has performed with such bands as October Faction, Gone, Confront James, Mojack, and others.[3] He also owns the Texas-based independent record label, SST, originally begun as an electronics company called Solid State Tuners when he was 12 years old and an amateur radio operator (in Hermosa Beach, California).

Ginn was 99th on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[4] Ginn is the older brother of artist Raymond Ginn, who goes by the pseudonym of Raymond Pettibon.

Ginn became a vegetarian at 17 years old and as of 2013 he has been a vegan for approximately fifteen years.[5]

Comments from other musicians

Many artists have cited Ginn as an influence or have expressed their admiration for him, including Buzz Osborne of Melvins,[6] Omar Rodríguez-López of The Mars Volta,[7] William DuVall of Alice in Chains,[8] Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan,[9] Kurt Ballou of Converge,[10] Justin Sane of Anti-Flag,[11] RM Hubbert,[12] Bill Kelliher of Mastodon,[13] Zach Blair of Rise Against,[14] Weasel Walter,[15] Andrew Williams of Every Time I Die,[16] Laurent Barnard of Gallows,[17] and Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos.[18]

Black Flag

Black Flag is an American hardcore punk band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established by Greg Ginn, the guitarist, primary songwriter, and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes in the band. They are widely considered to be one of the first hardcore punk bands. After breaking up in 1986, Black Flag briefly reunited in 2003 and again in 2013. Black Flag's sound mixed the raw simplicity of the Ramones with atonal guitar solos and frequent tempo shifts. The lyrics were written mostly by Ginn, and like other punk rock bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Black Flag voiced an anti-authoritarian and non-conformist message, in songs punctuated with descriptions of social isolation, neurosis, poverty, and paranoia. These themes were explored further when Henry Rollins joined the band as lead singer in 1981. Most of the band's material was released on Ginn's independent label, SST Records.

Accusations

In 2014, both Ron Reyes and ex-wife Marina Ginn have accused Ginn for abusing both of his two daughters. These reports include, allegedly routinely neglecting them food and threatening them. Allegedly whenever they were fed, it was intentionally unpleasant meals like lettuce and vinegar, causing them to gag. Allegedly he made no effort to conceal his drug use around them, and left them in the unfurnished concrete hallways while recording in his studio. Allegedly they were forced to clean his entire industrial building, even at 1 a.m. One of the daughters has been hospitalized for seizures and chest pains, due to the stress.[19] [20] [21]

Partial discography

Solo

  • Getting Even LP (Cruz Records, 1993)
  • Dick LP (Cruz Records, 1993)
  • Payday EP (Cruz Records, 1993)
  • Don't Tell Me EP (Cruz Records, 1994)
  • Let It Burn (Because I Don't Live There Anymore) LP (Cruz Records, 1994)
  • Bent Edge LP (SST Records, 2007) – with The Taylor Texas Corrugators
  • Goof Off Experts LP (SST Records, 2008) – with The Taylor Texas Corrugators
  • Freddie 7" (Electric Cowbell, 2010) – with The Taylor Texas Corrugators
  • Legends of Williamson County LP (SST Records, 2010) – with The Taylor Texas Corrugators
  • We Are Amused LP (SST Records, 2011) – with The Royal We
  • We Are One 12" (SST Records, 2011) – with The Royal We
  • Fearless Leaders LP (SST Records, 2013) – with The Royal We

Black Flag

Minutemen

SWA

  • Your Future (If You Have One) LP (SST Records, 1985) (Producer)

October Faction

  • October Faction live LP (SST Records, 1985)
  • Second Factionalization LP (SST Records, 1986)

Tom Troccoli's Dog

  • Tom Troccoli's Dog LP (SST Records, 1985)

Gone

  • Let's Get Real, Real Gone for a Change LP (SST Records, 1986)
  • Gone II – But Never Too Gone! LP (SST Records, 1986)
  • Criminal Mind LP (SST Records, 1994)
  • Smoking Gun remix EP (SST Records, 1994)
  • All The Dirt That's Fit To Print LP (SST Records, 1994)
  • Damage Control remix EP (SST Records, 1995)
  • Best Left Unsaid LP (SST Records, 1996)
  • Country Dumb LP (SST Records, 1998)
  • The Epic Trilogy double CD (SST Records, 2007)

Minuteflag

Lawndale

  • Sasquatch Rock LP (SST Records, 1987) (guest)

Rig

  • Belly to the Ground LP (Cruz Records, 1994) (Producer, guest)

Mojack

  • Merchandizing Murder CD (SST Records, 1995)
  • Home Brew CD (SST Records, 1997)
  • Rub-A-Dub CD (SST Records, 2003, unreleased)
  • Under The Willow Tree CD (SST Records, 2007)
  • The Metal Years CD (SST Records, 2008)
  • Hijinks CD (SST Records, 2011)
  • Car CD (SST Records, 2013)

Hor

  • House CD (SST Records, 1995)
  • Slo N' Sleazy CD (SST Records, 1996)
  • A Faster, More Aggressive Hor CD (SST Records, 1998)
  • Bash CD (SST Records, 2003, unreleased)
  • Culture Wars CD (SST Records, 2010)

Confront James

  • Test One Reality CD (SST Records, 1995)
  • Just Do It CD (SST Records, 1995)
  • Ill Gotten Hatred CD (SST Records, 1996)
  • Chemical Exposure CD (SST Records, 1996)
  • Black Mountain Bomb CD (SST Records, 1997)
  • We Are Humored CD (SST Records, 2003, unreleased)

El Bad

  • Bad Motherfucker CD (SST Records, 1996)
  • Trick Or Treat CD (SST Records, 1997)

Hotel X

  • Uncommon Ground CD (SST Records, 1996) (guest)

Bias

  • Model Citizen CD (SST Records, 1997)

Get Me High

  • Taming The Underground CD (SST Records, 1997)

Killer Tweeker Bees

  • Tweaker Blues CD (SST Records, 1997)

Fastgato

  • Feral CD (SST Records, 2003, unreleased)

Limey LBC

  • Life of Lime CD (SST Records, 2003, unreleased)

The Perfect Rat

  • Endangered Languages CD (Alone Records, 2007)

Jambang

  • Connecting CD (SST Records, 2008)
  • 200 Days in Space DVD (SST Records, 2010)

Ten East

  • Robot's Guide To Freedom CD (Lexicon Devil, 2008)

Libyan Hit Squad/Round Eye

  • "Full Circle" EP (Ripping Records, 2010) (Guest)

Good For You

  • Life Is Too Short Not To Hold A Grudge LP (SST Records, 2013)

References

  1. ↑ "Black Flag Is Back". Blabbermouth.net. January 25, 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-25.
  2. ↑ Chick, Stevie (2009). Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag. London, UK: Omnibus Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-84772-620-9.
  3. ↑ Archived January 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Rollingstone.com. December 2, 2010. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  5. ↑ Ritchie, Ryan (June 5, 2013). "VegNews Music Week: Eating Vegan On the Road with Black Flag's Greg Ginn". VegNews. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ Eakin, Marah (January 7, 2014). "Melvins' Buzz Osborne picks songs by "bands that were good, but blew it"". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on January 7, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2017. [...] Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. [...] he definitely changed everything.
  7. ↑ Cleveland, Barry (24 November 2009). "Omar Rodriguez Lopez Interview Outtakes". Guitar Player. Archived from the original on June 12, 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  8. ↑ DuVall, William (4 September 2016). "How Black Flag changed my life, by William DuVall". TeamRock.com. Archived from the original on September 5, 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2017. When Black Flag came along I was like, ‘This is it. This is exactly what the doctor ordered.’ That unhinged guitar playing that Greg Ginn was doing was amazing. As a fan of Hendrix and avant-garde jazz, he was right there at the centre of all of that and he embraced all of it in his playing. I could tell that what he was doing was deliberate, too. It wasn’t just like, ‘Oh this guy can’t play.’ It was discipline. Later on, I got to know Greg Ginn and it was all confirmed for me. He was like, ‘This is method.’
  9. ↑ Massie, Andrew (15 July 2015). "The Rockpit interviews | BEN WEINMAN | DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN". The Rockpit. Archived from the original on July 24, 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  10. ↑ Ramirez, Carlos (February 19, 2008). "Converge: 'The Best Way To Learn Is Just Start Doing It'". Ultimate Guitar Archive. Archived from the original on June 16, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  11. ↑ Wells, Kevin (July 24, 2014). "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Justin Sane from Anti-Flag". www.commdiginews.com. Los Angeles, California. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017. [...] My favorite band probably at that time was Black Flag, the Black Flag Damaged album. And you can hear it in my solos, especially some of my noisy solos in the early days of Anti-Flag, like on the Die for the Government record or on Underground Network is a really good example where I was just really influenced by the way Greg Ginn played guitar. [...]
  12. ↑ Greer, Jonathan (June 15, 2012). "INTERVIEW: Slow Thrills meets R.M. Hubbert". slowthrills.wordpress.com. Archived from the original on June 16, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  13. ↑ Florino, Rick (October 1, 2012). "Bill Kelliher Talks Primate, "Star Wars", Mastodon, and More". Artistdirect. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
  14. ↑ Kelly, Amy (April 25, 2011). "Zach Blair Of Rise Against: 'I've Always Been A Student Of Aggression'". Ultimate Guitar Archive. Archived from the original on June 16, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2017. [...] I'm not such a fan of crazy, loose playing, but I think Greg Ginn of Black Flag was brilliant and did it in a way where it sounded like he was playing sloppy but that was exactly how he wanted to play it. He was actually playing tighter than anyone I had ever seen. He was making tight sound that way. [...]
  15. ↑ Shteamer, Hank (December 2011). "Interview: Weasel Walter". www.invisibleoranges.com (published May 9, 2012). Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
  16. ↑ Hodgson, Peter (September 29, 2013). "INTERVIEW: Every Time I Die's Andy Williams". iheartguitarblog.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved April 14, 2017. [...] People don’t want to hear it, but that’s my main writing influence, Greg Ginn. Anything he wrote on a guitar was what I wanted to do on a guitar. [...]
  17. ↑ Barnard, Laurent (August 28, 2016). "My Top 5 Punk Guitarists by Gallows' Laurent Barnard". TeamRock. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
  18. ↑ "Guitarist Interview with Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos". QDR. Silbermedia.com. August 2010. Archived from the original on November 14, 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  19. ↑ Staff, Cos. "Black Flag's Ron Reyes accuses Greg Ginn of rampant drug use and child abuse". consequenceofsound.net. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  20. ↑ Breihan, Tom. "Former Black Flag Vocalist Ron Reyes Issues Statement On Greg Ginn's Child Abuse Case". stereogum.com. StereoGum. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  21. ↑ O'Neal, Sean. "Black Flag's Greg Ginn accused of child abuse". news.avclub.com. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
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