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Black Flag Interview
from We Got Power #04, Fall, 1982

Interview by: Dave, Alan, & Jordan
WGP: We heard something went down in New York, something about hair length...

Greg: No. Actually it had to do not with hair length, but cock sizes. Some of the girls in various parts of the country were disappointed by the sizes of our cocks. We had this big image built up, Henry was on the cover of New York Rocker, all this shit, it was almost like Devo. They expected us to have big cocks like the Devo boys, you know, we couldn't deliver!

Chuck D: I think maybe they get silicon implants, to build up the placid size.

Greg: We figure if someone wants to listen to our music, our cock size shouldn't really matter. Whatever cock size is doesn't have much to do with our music.

Chuck D: Otherwise we'd be in the business like John Holms, and those guys.

Greg: We are a band because we like to play the music we like to play not for other reasons.

WGP: We heard you ran into a couple other troubles on this tour...

Chuck D: I mean shit, our van caught on fire! What else...?!

WGP: So you guys stole Chuck Biscuits, right?!?

Greg: No. No. Chuck quite DOA, and now he's playin' with us. When we got up there (Vancouver) Emil decided he didn't want ot be away form home all the time.

WGP: What's DOA gonna be doing for a drummer now...?

Chuck B: They got Dimwit, that's my brother.

WGP: So, what do you think of the people who are getting pist at the $9.00 or $8.50 charge for Saturday nite. (Black Flag, 45 Grave, DOA, Descendents, & Hüsker Dü)

Chuck D: It's the minimum you can do, and pay the bills of the hall, the p.a. and stuff. A lot of good bands. We pay for advertising out of our funds.

Greg: That place (New Olympic) is the only place we can play, you have to rent a stage. Last time we played there we ended up not making anything, ya know?

WGP: How are you working out with Unicorn?

Greg: They're distributing our records, I guess.

WGP: What about people sayin', "T.V. Party, oh, their 'sell out' record"...

Greg: Most of the people sayin' that can trade me their apartment, and I can sleep at their place, they can sleep at my place. (Laughter) I don't know if we sold out, when do we collect?

Chuck D: I think selling out is doing something you don't wanna do, because someone else is gonna give you something for it.

Greg: I think "T.V. Party" is hilarious. And if we would not do it because we think we might get some criticism that would be selling out, rather than saying, "well, we're gonna do what we like." For us, it's a great break in our set to have some kind of humor in some of the songs because...

Chuck D: It's us. We're not serious 100 percent of the time.

Greg: ...That's part of our thing, the zany-ness, I guess. What are we supposed to do, supress that because somebody might think it's not right?

Chuck D: We broke somebody's rule, but wasn't that what they're made for...? When Led Zeppelin was the big thing and when you went to play, they'd give you shit because the only thing they wanted to hear is Led Zeppelin, and if we had wanted to be popular at that point, then we'd be all playing Led Zeppelin songs.