[kj] The Complications opening for Killing Joke in Montreal

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

I love Venom's 1st two albums, from like 1980 - 1982.

But this was like 1985 when Venom had turned badly cheese metal wanky 
and also, to be fair, Black Flag were sucking big time at that time, 
too, in my opinion. Whenever the time was right before they ultimately 
broke up, somewhere around then.

Henry "Rollins" Garfield was starting to bulk up, show up to shows with 
his new tats and muscles and long hair, and tiny sweaty black shorts and 
nothing else on, and singing songs like "Who's Got the 10 1/2".  I hate 
that era of Black Flag with a passion. It was probably a pretty 
hilarious show,overall, to see wank-metal era Venom come on after 
Rollins and his tiny black shorts playing their shittiest songs.

--Oliver

Alex Smith wrote:

> Let's not go cutting on Venom, shall we?

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> My nextdoor neighbor is a Seattle transplant and told me some story of how Green River opened up for PiL in Seattle back in the good ol' days and Lydon treated them similarly shittily. When Green River informed the crowd of same, the audience turned on PiL viciously. This, I've heard tell, is the origin of the PiL song titled -- wait for it -- "Seattle."

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> Alex in NYC

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