Banned in Boston (GG Allin album)
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| Compilation album by GG Allin | ||||
| Released | February 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1978–November 1984 | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 72:31 | |||
| Label | Black & Blue | |||
| Producer | Peter Yarmouth | |||
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Banned In Boston is a compilation CD (and later, vinyl LP) from punk rock singer/songwriter GG Allin, released in 1989 (although it was compiled and sent to the manufacturing plant in the winter of 1988 and gives a copyright date of that year). It was also the first ever GG Allin title to be released on compact disc but the release on CD included additional material not on the vinyl version Black and Blue released.
The CD was compiled by Black and Blue Records owner Peter Yarmouth with cooperation from GG Allin, since the two previous 7" releases had started to garner interest after the infamous Cat Club show in NYC and all the press in Village Voice, Flipside and other punk rock fanzines. The other version of the album is a compilation of all of GG Allin recordings with The Jabbers.
At the time, Allin's notoriety was already established at a fast pace due to his continued outrageous stage antics throughout the United States along with his Black and Blue releases, the two album releases for Homestead Records, You Give Love a Bad Name and Freaks, Faggots, Drunks and Junkies and the cassette album on ROIR Hated In The Nation (which has the three live songs played at the abbreviated set in New York City's infamous Cat Club show). Allin never stopped speaking or working with Yarmouth, despite telling interviewers that Yarmouth had not paid him a cent in royalties on the video GG Eats His Own/Live & Pissed (a charge refuted by Yarmouth when he said he "paid" GG by the terms of GG's contract giving GG a percentage of the units pressed instead of on retail sales after expenses). Yarmouth had rights to the sound recordings master tapes from Allin's pre-Homestead releases; GG approached Yarmouth in 1983 to bankroll his recordings and begin a national advertising campaign that included ads in Option, Flipside, Ben Is Dead, RIP, Maximum RockNRoll, Real Life In A Big City, Boston Rock, and many more publications that also paved the way to GG's infamy. Black & Blue's first release was an Allin recording, the Live Fast Die Fast EP, and Black and Blue had since been reissuing Allin material in various analog formats that GG assisted in putting together. Allin told Yarmouth that trashing his label was something he would always do, and would do with other labels so he should not take it personal. Allin and Yarmouth were good friends and in touch with each other up to a week before his death. Allin took pride in the fact that he urinated in Homestead Records president Gerald Cosley's hair (according to GG) and on Yarmouth's leg (at the Populus Pudding show that was filmed when GG was under contract to Homestead). The whole GG and Yarmouth not speaking to each other is a myth. GG was always in touch with Yarmouth even when incarcerated via collect calls to Yarmouth and letters sent via postal mail. Black & Blue Records' phone bills and letters prove this where the whole not working together is a fabrication that has no justification. Allin even stayed at Yarmouth's home in the late 80s prior to the show at The Rocket in Providence RI.
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