1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. Disgraceland is an 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: adult storytelling podcast. The themes are for a mature audience. 3 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: The language is explicit. You know this. However, this episode 4 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: pushes the limits of the word explicit. In this episode, 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: the subject's behavior and the language used to describe it 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: is highly offensive. So this is a warning. It goes 7 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: without saying that this isn't for kids, And if you 8 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: yourself aren't constitutionally inclined to handle the highly transgressive world 9 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: of Gigi Allen, then this episode isn't for you either. 10 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: But if you're the type of sick bastard that slows 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: down to look at a car crash on the side 12 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: of the road, then pull over right now, unbuckle your 13 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: kids from their car seats, and throw them out on 14 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: the street. Step on that accelerator and turn it the 15 00:00:48,680 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: fuck up like Ggi Allen would. The stories about transgressive 16 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: punk rocker Gigi Allen are the most insane stories you'll 17 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: hear about any performer in the history of music. He 18 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:17,479 Speaker 1: preached bestiality, incest, and pedophilia. He bludgeoned himself on stage 19 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: and would smear his fans faces with fresh blood he'd 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: binge xlax before shows and defecate in front of his 21 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 1: audience and share the results. More on that later. Upon 22 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 1: signing a recording contract with Homestead Records, Gigi literally pissed 23 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: on label chief Gerard Cosloy, and Gigi Allen would physically 24 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 1: assault his audience. He'd sexually assault his fans on and 25 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: off stage. One such sexual assault would land him in 26 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: prison for eighteen months, and all in all, he was 27 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: imprisoned more than fifty times. He was born to a 28 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: psychotic father in Lancaster, New Hampshire, who named him Jesus 29 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: Christ Allan because supposedly his boy was the new Messiah, 30 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: and Gi Gg's older brother couldn't pronounce Jesus because some 31 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: supreme being tied his tongue so as not to allow 32 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: such blasphemy be spoken that a Messiah could possibly come 33 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: from New Hampshire, so the cute little sibling nickname of 34 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: Gigi baby talk for Jesus stuck. The Allens lived in 35 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 1: a log cabin with no running water, and Gigi's dad 36 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,399 Speaker 1: kept his family isolated from the outside world. Murder suicide 37 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: by the old man was constantly threatened. The apple didn't 38 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: fall too far because Gigi would grow up to infamously 39 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: claim that he was the rock and roll Messiah and 40 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: that his body was a sacrifice to his people, the 41 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: rock and roll underground, and that one day Gigi would 42 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: make the ultimate sacrifice for them. But beyond all of 43 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: this madness, gg Allen made great music. That's right, great music. 44 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: You don't believe me, fuck off, I'm right sorry, that's 45 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: what Gigi Allen would have said, but it doesn't make 46 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: me wrong. Gg Allen did make some great music. I mean, 47 00:02:58,040 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: there's a lot of shit to sift through, but if 48 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: you let it loud, hard and fast, then you can 49 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: hardly do better than Gigi's Hated in the Nation cassette 50 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: on Roar It's great That music at the top of 51 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: the show. That wasn't great music. That was a preset 52 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: loop from my mellotron called Fox Trot Swinging Flutes MK two. 53 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: I played you that loop because I can't afford the 54 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: rights for That's the Way Love Goes by Janet Jackson. 55 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: And why would I play you that specific slice of 56 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: down tempo fohemian cheese? Could I afford it? Because that 57 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: was the number one song on June twenty eighth, nineteen 58 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: ninety three, and that was the day that Gigi Allen, 59 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: the quote unquote only true rock and roller left in 60 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: the world, publicly claimed on national television that he'd kill 61 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: himself on stage and take his audience with him. On 62 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: this episode Fox Trot swinging flutes, transgressive punk, down tempo 63 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: fohemian cheese in the rock and roll Underground. Grab onto 64 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: your bowels, people, you're about to meet your god, Gigi Allen. 65 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan and this is disgrace man. Got up 66 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: and had a shitty breakfast, went back to lock up 67 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: and slept till ten shaved, got out and watched a 68 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: movie Tougher than Leather, then back to lock up to 69 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: jerk off. After dinner, I got a visit from Linda, 70 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: still through glass, but she showed me her shaved cunt. 71 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: I would have paid one hundred bucks to suck it, 72 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: but went back to my cell to jerk off again. 73 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: Used the phone all afternoon to try to get some 74 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: fucking money, went to lock up and wrote some lyrics, 75 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: started jerking off again. I'm getting a scab on the 76 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: end of my cock, wrote to Charles Manson today. I 77 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: was fucking withdrawn all night and just stayed to myself. 78 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: Gigi Allen was in jail again. Actually, this time it 79 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: was prison born Jesus Christ Alan and nickname Gigi Alan 80 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: may have shared our Lord and Saviour's name, but he 81 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: shared his penis size with Adolf Hitler's rumored micro penis. 82 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: I know this because Gigi performed in nothing but a 83 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: dog collar and combat mets and is beyond punk as 84 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: fuck performances where he was known to physically assault his audience, 85 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: punching them with the butt end of his microphone, spitting 86 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 1: on them, and worse, defecating on stage, smearing himself in 87 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,799 Speaker 1: his own shit and throwing it at his paying crowds. 88 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: His performances regularly resulted with Gigi winding up in jail 89 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: for indecency or assault, and understandably so. But his latest 90 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: eighteen month prison stint was for something far worse. Assault 91 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. 92 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 1: Sexual assault from the stage in the midst of Gigi 93 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: shows was old hat. It was nothing for Gigi to 94 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: jump off stage and grab a man or woman by 95 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: the ears and force his or her face into his filthy, 96 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: shitsmeared penis. This usually resulted in another audience member pummeling 97 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: the distracted front man with a clinched fist or a 98 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: steel toed boot, while his band, the Murder Junkies, including 99 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: his hitler mustachioed brother Merle on bass. A rotating cast 100 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: of characters, including for a moment, the legendary d d 101 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: Ramone on guitar, and of course Dino, the naked drummer, 102 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,799 Speaker 1: all played on seemingly oblivious to the obscene spectacle playing 103 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: out in front of them. But sexual assault offstage that 104 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: was a different matter. Leslie Marie Morgan, a twenty five 105 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: year old waitress from ann Arbor, Michigan, wanted to marry 106 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: Gigi Allen, but first she wanted Gigi in the rest 107 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: of his band to come on her at the same time. However, 108 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: the complications of synchronized ejaculation being what they are, Leslie 109 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: would wind up disappointed, so the obsessed fan in Gigi 110 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: decided to grab some alone time and let's motel room. 111 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: Gigi Allen, who is on record stating that there is 112 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: no good sex without danger involved, handcuffed Leslie to the 113 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: bed and proceeded to burn her with cigarette butts and 114 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: cut her breasts and stomach with a butterfly knife. Gigi 115 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: later claimed that all this was done at Leslie's instruction, 116 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: and supposedly, when Leslie learned Gigi had no intention of 117 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: marrying her shocker, she then decided to report Gigi to 118 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: the police, or so went the story from Gigi, who 119 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: claimed he was being set up and whatever. Gg Allen's 120 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: abusive mistreatment of women is well documented, and whether you 121 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: believe his side of the story or Morgan's, I happen 122 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: to believe hers. The dude belonged behind bars, and that's 123 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: what happened. Gigi Allen came to the attention of the 124 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: FBI through his pen pal John Hinckley, that would be 125 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: assassin of President Ronald Reagan. Turns out Gigi had been 126 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: corresponding with Hinckley, whose mail from behind Bars was being 127 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: monitored by the FEDS, and when they ran Gigi's name, 128 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: they came up with the assault warrant in Michigan, and 129 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: Gigi was quickly snatched up, tried, and sentenced, which for 130 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: Gigi Allen fans was a drag because it meant that 131 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: Gigi would not be able to make do on a 132 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: promise he'd made them that on Halloween Night nineteen eighty nine, 133 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 1: Gigi Allen would kill himself on stage. I am in 134 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: this fucking dungeon, but the leader of the pack is 135 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: always the one who pays the price and takes the fall. 136 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: And to do what I do is like Russian roulette. 137 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: You have to be willing to go to jail if 138 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: there was only some way to escape. But as I 139 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: picked my brain apart with the thought and realize I 140 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: am here as a sacrifice of my art, Jesus Christ 141 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: was nailed to the cross and came back at my birth. 142 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: I now must suffer and die for all you fuckers 143 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: out there drinking, doping, fucking, rocking loud, obnoxious, pardoning, and 144 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: doing what I would be excessively doing. But because I 145 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: am king, I must pave the road of destruction for 146 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: all of you. Spill your blood from me while I 147 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: tear my skin apart for you and bleed. Underground societies 148 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: have long been part of our culture, of most every 149 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: culture actually here in America. The mafia, anarchists, the extreme 150 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: Antifa and alt right, white supremacist communists, the KKK, Nazi skinheads, 151 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: the Bloods, the Crips, the Weathermen, and the Molly Maguires 152 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: before all of them were each made up of groups 153 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: of people who lived outside the bounds of mainstream society 154 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 1: and therefore forced to exist underground. Gigi Allen lived outside 155 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 1: the bounds of the mainstream, and he saw himself as 156 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: the leader of his own anti social group, the Rock 157 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: and Roll Underground, a group of disenfranchised youth living out 158 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: on the margins. If you're over thirty five, maybe you 159 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: remember these kids. Dreadlocked crustpunks, panhandling outside of Kim's video 160 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: on Saint Mark's skinheads, slinging weed and playing hackey sack 161 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: with the hippies in the pit at Harvard Square. The 162 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: pre Nirvana midwestern teen with the cool cousin in Newhaven 163 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: who sent him the Revelation records comp but for whom 164 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: that was somehow not hard enough. The too smart for 165 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: his own good Ivy League drop out with the black 166 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: flag shirt who worked for the local moving company in 167 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: stank like beer at eight in the morning, While you 168 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: and your parents likely ignored these kids shuffling past them 169 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: in the street, hoping they didn't strike up conversations with 170 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: your girlfriend or your sister, gently reminding them to wipe 171 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: their feet and cover their mouths. These marginalized youths were 172 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: discovering and falling for Gigi Allen, who, if they didn't believe, 173 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: was actually their lord and savior, they at least believed 174 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 1: to be immensely more entertaining than whatever shit the mainstream 175 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: or lamestream punk cultures were peddling at the time. I mean, 176 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: the dude shoved hot dogs up his ass on stage 177 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: and then ate them. He bloodied himself in front of 178 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,959 Speaker 1: his audience with broken beer bottles. He'd take any drug 179 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: you put in front of him, booze and pills and powders. 180 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: Choose your medicine. The rock and roll underground saw no limits, 181 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: no laws. It was total rebellion against mainstream music and culture. 182 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: While in prison, Gigi Allen honed his manifesto, If you 183 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: believe in the real underground of rock and roll, then 184 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: now is the time to do something about it. The 185 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 1: time is now to overthrow the current situations and declare 186 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: war on the record company's radio stations, publications, clubs, and 187 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: anyone who promotes the whole so called scene as it 188 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: now stands. We need to destroy it all and take 189 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: it back from the corporate phonies. And conformists. Action must 190 00:11:55,080 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 1: be taken now, and the blood must be spilled. It 191 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: was nineteen ninety one. Guns and Roses were riding high 192 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: on the charts, and Gigi hated them, saw them as 193 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 1: the ultimate betrayal of real rock and roll, total corporate 194 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 1: ass suck posers. To make matters worse, Gigi's beloved Ramones 195 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: were cozying up to Axel and Slash in hopes of 196 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: landing some opening slots for what was at the time 197 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: the world's biggest band. This disgusted Gigi. In Gigi's mind, 198 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: guns and Roses were to be destroyed, not praised, and 199 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: definitely not by the fucking Ramones. After penning his manifest 200 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: to imprison and upon his release, Gigi was focused. This 201 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:40,319 Speaker 1: was no longer just about drinking, fucking, and fighting. This 202 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: was war, and Gigi saw himself as the ultimate weapon, 203 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: a ballistic missile of filth and destruction to be deployed 204 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: by the rock and roll underground at his discretion against society, 205 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: his theater of war, the stage. His shows were not 206 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: to entertain, but to annihilate all the blood, shit, pissed, 207 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 1: physical and sexual assault that he pummeled his audience with 208 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: wasn't to shock. It was to subvert, to break down 209 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 1: any and all remaining social norms in his quest to 210 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 1: destroy society, and that meant taking his act as far 211 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: as it could go. That meant making the ultimate sacrifice, 212 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: and that meant doing the unthinkable. This is the decade 213 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: for final mutilation. Time to get rock and Roll out 214 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: of the hands of the masses and back to the 215 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: people who will not accept comfort or conformity at any cost. 216 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: Then I will commit suicide on stage, and the blood 217 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: of rock and roll will become the poison of the 218 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: universe forever. Talk is fucking cheap. We'll be right back 219 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: after this word, word word, Samuel Beckett, William Shakespeare, Gigi Allen. 220 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: This troika was what Judge John Jay Demato was pondering 221 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: in Room six point twenty three of the Vaukee County 222 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: Courthouse in MacArthur's Square in March of nineteen eighty nine. 223 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 1: Gigi's court appointed lawyer, Peter Goldberg, was trying to make 224 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: the case that Gig's performance was part of an artistic 225 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: tradition scatology. Incorporating human excrement into one's work was merely 226 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: an artistic statement, and Ggi Allen should be afforded the 227 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: same freedom of expression as Billy Shakespeare before him. The 228 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: judge called bullshit and sentenced Gigi to ninety days in 229 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: jail for indecency, more specifically for shitting on the stage 230 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: of Milwaukee's Old Rock Cafe and for then throwing it 231 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: at his audience. It was official, taking a dump on 232 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: stage was not art. Prison sucked, So Gigi masturbated out 233 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: of boredom a lot, supposedly by his count, more than 234 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: one hundred times and thirty days. But today it was different. 235 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: He had visitors, two young kids, one from somewhere in 236 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: the Northwest, the other from Kansas City. They were both 237 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: punk and fans of Gigi's The short one, Kurt was 238 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: his name. With the acne and greasy blonde hair, his 239 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: band Nirvana sounded a Gigi like a bunch of wannabe 240 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: sellout corporate crap. The other kid's band, the Flaming Lips, 241 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: sounded like a disease you'd get from hanging out down 242 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: by the piers. Gigi told him to get the fuck 243 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: out of there with their lame asses. Almost as soon 244 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: as he received them, he spat at them and told 245 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: them they looked like a couple of quote unquote Kansas 246 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: City faggots who wanted their dick sucked, so they bounced. 247 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: And in no time Gigi bounced out of jail and 248 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: then back into jail, and then out of jail and 249 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: then back in again, and the arrest for a decency 250 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: assault and various parole violations were constantly landing Gigi behind bars. 251 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: The jail time did wonders for his rock and roll 252 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: outlaw image, but caused Gigi to reneg on his promise 253 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: of killing himself on stage on Halloween nineteen eighty nine 254 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: because he was locked up then when he promised to 255 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: make good on a suicidal pledge the following year on 256 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: Halloween nineteen ninety and he landed behind bars once again, 257 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: thwarting his suicide, the rock and roll underground started to smell. 258 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: A rat claim started to bubble up in the punk 259 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: rock press of Gigi being a false messiah, a publicity 260 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: star of shock rocking charlatan whose only interest was in 261 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: selling records in tickets to his shows. No better than 262 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: Alice Cooper or Guns and Posers. June twenty fourth, nineteen 263 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: ninety three, a Manhattan television studio, The Jane Whitney Show, 264 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: part Sally Jesse, Raphael part Jerry Springer, early nineties television 265 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: pre reality TV. The gig was to grab a bunch 266 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: of marginal figures and throw them up on stage in 267 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: front of a live TV audience and see what kind 268 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: of shit starts on the panel. Today a mix of flamboyant, 269 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: drugged out club kids, including the notorious Michael Alec, a 270 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: straight laced cop from Nutley, New Jersey in a cheap suit, 271 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: and on the other side of him, two punk rock 272 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: women in Gigi Allen. Gigi shaved bald for battle, thick handlebar, mustache, 273 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: tattooed chest, barreling out of his leather jacket, dog collar 274 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: shorts and combat boots. He was in peak form, amped 275 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: the fuck up, taking every opportunity to verbally go at 276 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: the cop Sergeant Steve Rogers preaching his normal rap, real 277 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: rock and roll, the underground, rape, incest beast reality, and 278 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: doing his best to somehow ignore the spectacle of Alec 279 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: and the rest of the club kids on the other 280 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: side of the stage. Sergeant Rogers couldn't let any of 281 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: it go. He compared Gigi to Hitler, and Gigi stood up, 282 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: pointing and yelling into the crowd, I'm gonna have your daughter. 283 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have your daughter. He told the cop he 284 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: could have any woman he wanted, and that the cop 285 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: was probably married to some old, fat bitch, and the 286 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 1: audience booed, cheered, laughed nervously. Alex spread out flamboyantly on 287 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: the stage, doing his best Marilyn Monroe, and for the 288 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: most part he was ignored. This was now the Gigi 289 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: Allen Show, and that's when it happened. Just when it 290 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: seemed like there were no more lines to cross on 291 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: national television, Allen looked into the camera and said, I 292 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 1: live this life every day. When I'm on stage, it's 293 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: my therapy, and the ultimate performance will be when I 294 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: reach my peak. I'll commit suicide and I'll take your 295 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: kids with me. The crowd was silent, and Jane Whitney 296 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: looked at and asked, what does that mean, you'll take 297 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: our kids with you. Gigi sat back in his chair 298 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: and calmly said, it means I'll kill them too. He 299 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: then leaned forward into the camera and said, when you've 300 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: reached your peak, it's time to die. 301 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 2: Well, my body is the rock and roll temple, and 302 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 2: my flesh, blood, and body floors are a communion to 303 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 2: the people, whether they like it or not. I mean, 304 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 2: I'm not not out to please anybody. My rock and 305 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 2: roll is more not to entertain, but to annihilate. I'm 306 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 2: trying to bring danger back, and you're on your role. 307 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: A day after the Jane Whitney televised shit show, gg 308 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: Allen and the Murder Junkies were scheduled to play the 309 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: gas Station in East Village performance space that was, of course, 310 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 1: once an actual gas station on the corner of Avenue 311 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: B in the East second Street in Manhattan. News of 312 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 1: the live suicide pluge on television had Gigi fans thinking 313 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: that this might finally be the day, This might finally 314 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 1: be the show where Gigi did it, where he killed 315 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: himself on stage. But that day Gigi was doing his 316 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 1: best to kill himself off stage. Gigi Allen was holed 317 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: up across the street from the club at his friend 318 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 1: Johnny Puke's apartment, a five story walk up. Johnny's girlfriend, 319 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: Gigi a girl, been hanging out with photographer Richard Kern. 320 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: Members of the Murder Junkies, who were all day drinking 321 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: and waiting for Johnny to return from a coke run. 322 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: They didn't have to wait long. Johnny darted across the 323 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 1: street to one of those long gone New York City delis. 324 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: We bang on the locked door adjacent to the store. 325 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,880 Speaker 1: A voice would ask you what you wanted. You'd name 326 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: your drug in the amount, put the money into the slot, 327 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: and within seconds your coke came to be pushed back 328 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: through anonymously. The coke was a welcome distraction. There was 329 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,199 Speaker 1: a lot of time before the show. Gigi builve in 330 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: head first. The blow helped me get into the red 331 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 1: headspace to perform. Gigibrew line after line after line and 332 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: talked crazy manifesto. BS Underground was the way he was 333 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: their leader. He showed them at the show tonight. Jane 334 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 1: Whitney won a bitch fucked that cop too in the 335 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 1: skinny little faggot in the limelight. While he was at it, 336 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 1: more coke was needed. Johnny Pugh hit the deli again 337 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: and then bolted back up the stairs through his apartment, 338 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: dumped the coke on the table for Gigi to dive 339 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 1: into it again. So it did in between polls from 340 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: his bottle of jim bean. It was late afternoon to showtime, 341 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 1: and Gigi was turned up, not yet ready to perform. 342 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: Tonight was going to be different, Tonight was going to 343 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: be special, and he had best prepare accordingly. He did 344 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 1: another line, and he was twitching, sucking on his gums, 345 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: bouncing his right leg uncontrollably. His wide eyes scanned the 346 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: room for non believers. Sweat started to slip down out 347 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: from under the only thing in the world that he 348 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: actually loved, his vintage black Nazi World War two helmet. 349 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 1: He did another line. The Ramones pet Cemetery made its 350 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: way out of Johnny Puke's boombox. Despite Gigi's better instincts, 351 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: he found himself digging the song, but he'd never say so. 352 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: He did another line, Fuck the Ramones, fucking posers and 353 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: fucked deed too. 354 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 3: Another line. 355 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 1: Pet Cemetery kept playing from the boombox. Gigi thought of 356 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 1: being buried. He thought of a grave. It brought Gigi 357 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 1: back to that place of ultimate darkness. He couldn't have 358 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: been more than nine or ten years old. His father 359 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: had called him down to the basement, and Gigi descended 360 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: the creaky steps and turned to see his imposing dad 361 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: grinning at his work. He showed his young son what 362 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: he'd done there in the dirt floor basement. He dug 363 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:21,360 Speaker 1: four graves, one for him, one for his mom, one 364 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 1: for his older brother Merle, and one for him Jesus 365 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: Christ Allan. Someone turned up the boombox, He'll moon snapped 366 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: Gigi out of it. Gigi did another line, then another 367 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: someone mentioned that the band was ready for him. The 368 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: tiny makeshift club was jammed, two hundred kids all waiting 369 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: for him, and Gigi knew why this show was packed. 370 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: It was punk rock, Harry Carrie time. Kids, This Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, 371 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: your rock and roll Messiah is gonna off himself in 372 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: public and you get to watch it. Lie Lie Lie, 373 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 1: The rock and roll underground smell of blood, and they 374 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 1: thought no. They hoped that this was the show where 375 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: Gigi would kill himself as he promised on the Jane 376 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: Whitney Show. But Gigi wasn't ready. More coke, more jim Bean. 377 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: Someone blasted the boom box. The stooges Gimme Danger bled 378 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:19,439 Speaker 1: out all over the room. Sinister iggy pop slinky baritone 379 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: wrapped itself around the ears of everyone in the room 380 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 1: like a snake charmer on an overnight shift. Gigi's mood 381 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,959 Speaker 1: was changing from darkness to white light, white heat seeking 382 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: human fuck machine. What the hell time was it? Were 383 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: they going to do this show or what? Gigi pulled 384 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: off his bottle of jim Bean under the smoke, he 385 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 1: was sweating profusely. Now he could feel the walls of 386 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: his skull trembling. His heart was pounding. He swore he 387 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: could see his breastplate rising. His hands shook, He could 388 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,159 Speaker 1: feel the blood pulsing to his dick. He knew it 389 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: for sure, now he was ten feet fucking tall. He 390 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,880 Speaker 1: then quickly dive bombed his face into a fat line 391 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: of coke, craned his head up like a punk rock cobra. 392 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: His eyes closed, rolled backward into his skull. His body 393 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 1: froze for a moment. Holding a roll dollar bill in 394 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: his right hand, he slowly opened his eyes, stared vacantly 395 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: across the room, and said, now it's done. Gigi bounded 396 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: down the stairs, across Avenue B and through the ravel 397 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: of punks hanging outside, into the front door, through the crowd, 398 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: and up onto the stage. The audience was giddy, intense 399 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 1: with the sight of Gigi wearing nothing but combat boots, 400 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 1: women's pandies, and a dog collar. He grabbed the mic 401 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: and bashed himself in the forehead. Blood immediately covered his face. 402 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: The audience went ape shit. The band launched him to shoot, knife, 403 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: strangle beat and crucified Gigi's anthem to the Rock and 404 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: Roll Underground. 405 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 2: And. 406 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: When they did, Gigi jumped off the stairs, took a 407 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: swing at the nearest audience member and landed his fist 408 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 1: in the side of his head. The dude swung back 409 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 1: at Gigi. Gigi, not missing a beat, continued to spit 410 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: out the vocals while swinging wildly of his fan. The 411 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: band played on. The audience was riveted. The chorus hit 412 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: and Gigi knew that this show was it. The crowd 413 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 1: was with him. The rock and Roll Underground was ready 414 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: for a moment anyway, but in the end, the chaos 415 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: proved to be too much. After one song, the audience 416 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 1: cleared out, they were scared shitless, and the club owner 417 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: pulled the plug. Literally. Gigi was incensed and freaked the 418 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: fuck out. He started berating the sound man, throwing barstools, 419 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 1: crazed with blood covering his head and face. Shit, when 420 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: did that happen? Smearing his chest. Maybe it was just 421 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: always there now. Gigi followed his fearful minions out of 422 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: the club onto the sidewalk, screaming at them pussies, posers. 423 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: He then ran straight onto East Second Street and threw 424 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: himself naked in front of a bus. The bus managed 425 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: to stop in time. The crowd on the street lost it. 426 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: Gigi heard the sound of sirens. Someone had called the cops. Fuck. 427 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: If Gigi couldn't kill himself, he shit sure wasn't going 428 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: back to jail, not again. He tried to casually blend 429 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: into the sidewalk traffic and walk his way out of 430 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 1: the chaos he'd started. But blending in wasn't an option 431 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,640 Speaker 1: for Gigi Allen. He was a six foot tall ball 432 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: dude with a handlebar mustache, wearing only women's panties and 433 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: combat roots, covered in blood and feces, walking down the 434 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 1: street in broad daylight, and worse than that, there was 435 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: a crowd of punk rockers gathering behind him. Shit, this 436 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: was bad. Gigi, in his small entourage, told the punkers 437 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: to fuck off and stop following him, but it was 438 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 1: no use. The scatological pied piper had gutting what he 439 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: wished for punk rock messiah status. His rock and roll 440 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: underground followers weren't going to miss out on the chance 441 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: to see their hero off himself, so they ignored Gigi's 442 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: please to stop following him and kept up their pursuit 443 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: through the streets of the East Village, and Gigi hailed 444 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 1: a cab and jumped in the back seat with his crew, 445 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: and the driver almost pissed himself. Uh, get out, I'm 446 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: calling the cops. The driver bailed on his own cab. 447 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 1: Gigi and company were forced to get out and high 448 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 1: tail it back through Saint Mark's over to Johnny Puke's place. 449 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: Somehow they made it without getting consumed by the crowd 450 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: or picked up by the cops, and Gigi was safe 451 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: from prison anyway, but not from death, despite his efforts 452 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: to kill himself on stage or in the middle of 453 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: East second Street by throwing himself in front of a bus. 454 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 1: Gigi Allen would indeed die that day, but in the 455 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: most cliched rock star way possible, on the floor of 456 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: Johnny Puke's shitty fifth floor walk up from a heroin overdose. 457 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: That night, after the sh and after the romp through 458 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 1: the East Village with his minions in hot pursuit, Gigi 459 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: would make his way back to his friend's apartment and 460 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 1: proceed to snirt copious amounts of heroin. In the end, 461 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: he laid down to sleep, worrying what he wore on 462 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: stage that day, with the addition, of course, of his 463 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 1: prize Nazi helmet. He closed his eyes and never opened 464 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: them again. He was dead, and what a cop out. 465 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,679 Speaker 1: To Gigi's true fans. His death was tragic, but not 466 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: for the reasons you'd expect. To Gigi's fans, Gigi Allen 467 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: blew it. He should have died as he said he 468 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: would live, in front of his followers, by his own 469 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: hand suicide right on stage. It would have been enough 470 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: for their teenage lust. It would have been unlike any 471 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: other performer, reform or instead in the streets in front 472 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: of his fans, who'd finally fully galvanized behind him. Literally, 473 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: they were there, ready willing, able to not only watch 474 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: him die, but to do whatever he wanted them to. 475 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: It was a missed opportunity, and to cap it all off. 476 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: Instead of making history and going out in a punk 477 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: rock ways of glory, Gigi Allen died a pedestrian's death 478 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: like a common junkie like Jim Morrison, Sid Vicious, Janis 479 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: Joplin and the rest of the cliched corporate rock hacks 480 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: who came before him like a truth sello. 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