Jay: You've said that the government has interfered with your right to free expression, your lifestyle, but why should anyone be permitted to do anything they want? Why shouldn't you he held accountable if your knock someone around, or take a dump on stage and toss it at them?
GG: When you walk into my environment, you are walking into my laws. The laws of the untamed animal. When I throw my body fluids at someone, they should feel honored to receive the communion of the rock 'n' roll underground's highest power. It's not just "tossing my dump", as you put it. It's a communion of souls, a shared gift of power. I Drink as many bodily fluids as I possibly can, my own as well as others. It signifies a deep closeness beyond the flesh of which most human life cannot or will not comprehend. Also, if you should be someone I go after and force your face into my crotch, you should consider yourself lucky to have tasted the temple of the highest power.
Jay: What should the boundaries be as far as interference by Johnny Law in the work of performers? There can be no interference at all. I reject established laws or guidelines on m y stage, morals and values are terminated. We come together for confrontation, self-mutilation, war, open sex, nudity and violence. A blood feast for our inner demons to be set out of control. Only then will I be able to tolerate a fucking world I deeply despise.
Jay: What do you get back from an audience when you perform?
GG: They are the target for my many moods and aggressions. I am the painter, they are the canvas and blood is the paint. When I look out at them as a whole crowd, I only see the enemy. A mass of people I would life to see fucking dead. I don't know them and I don't want to. I want to rape, beat and annihilate them. What I do separates the non-conformists from the phonies who are there just to witness a freak show.
Jay: Can you give me some background on your early years, the personal stuff?? What is the root of your rage and alienation? Do you have many, or any, close friendships? Does anyone get close to you?
GG: I was born a soul out of control. A soul growing faster then my body could ever keep up with. My ancestors put the roots of rage in the Allin blood. My grandmother on my father's side was a full time whore. My grandmother on my mother's side was raped by her father as a child, she in turn treated my mother like a prisoner in her house until she escaped at age eighteen to marry Merle Allin, Sr. On August 29th, 1956, in cold dark poverty in the wilds of New Hampshire, I was born Jesus Christ Allin, named by my father. My very first memories on this planet were beatings, burning, being held at gunpoint, kidnapped. Merle, Sr. had dug graves in the cellar where he had been planning an Allin family suicide. That was the environment I was born into. What most clinicians would term as an onset of psychosis, I just knew as a way of life. But I do not to this day blame anybody for who I am. If anything, I want to thank them for creating a powerful individual in me at the very start of life. I was very withdrawn, I but always felt superior to other around me. Before rock 'n' roll became my weapon, I could feel the music being created in me from the built up rage. I had no desire for friendships, I only wanted to be by myself. I had to fight alot, because when I blew up I was so out of control, it would take five or ten kids to hold me down. As for letting anyone get close, never completely. I married once, I thought it was love. It was a mistake. But I learned at an early age not to do it again. I am not capable of love, which I look at as a very positive thing. Love, friendships and relationships are for the weak. I take everything I obtain in this world and invest it back into myself only. It makes me more powerful and a better warrior.
Jay: Talk to me about the penal system, life inside as opposed to life outside. What the sickest shit you've ever seen go down in there? What needs to change with regard to how the prison system works?
GG: I do not look at everything as being sick. It's all an orgy for the mind to grow on. In many ways there is not alot of difference between prison and street life. It just costs alot more to obtain the habits. I've seen heads get split open, beatings, stabbings, guys with tits and cunts sucking and fucking and so on. Nothing that I myself have not seen or been a part of many times in my life both inside and out. But the only way to change the current prison situation is to break down all the correctional facilities and let the prisoners go free again. You cannot deprive a man of his liberties. It will do nothing to correct him or conform him to a society he has nothing in common with. Prisons only cultivate criminals.
Jay: What books do you read? Is prison pure boredom, or do you keep active building up your body and mind?
GG: I do not read books in here, I prefer to write my own. I'm always using my mind to plot future revenges and strategies to use for the next time I'm released. I also continue my self-mutilation for inner toleration. Late at night when the lights go down and I'm alone in my cell, I then do my rituals of pain, power, strength and endurance. I cut myself with razors and drink the blood. It is very important that I never let go of that self torture, so as to keep my levels of tolerance high for the battles of the future.
Jay: Are booze and drugs becoming a bore for you? Are you into it for transformation or annihilation?
GG: If it were for a bore, I wouldn't continue to do them. But I thrive on a Russian Roulette lifestyle. Annihilation is a way of life for me. Booze and drugs can intensify your levels of terror and tragedy. It opens up dark, chaotic force in the soul to higher speeds of untutored barbaric action. So I am into it for transformation and annihilation.
Jay: How does media manipulation figure into what you do?
GG: I use media as a weapon against those who they represent and those who sponsor it. It's life stealing your father's gun and blowing your mother's fucking brains out. As long sas it is to my own personal benefit and on my terms, then I'll use whoever I have to use to go wherever I have to go.
Jay: If you would whack anyone, who would it be and why?
GG: One person would never be enough for me. I would want to whack as many people as I could.
Jay: Your fans, are you in touch with many of them? Do they write to you about their problems? Treat you like some kind of guru? Any psycho fans you can't get rid of?
GG: I get alot of mail from people all over the world. Sometimes it's hard to tell the sincerity of the person through a letter, unlike a live show where you can easily weed them out. But most of them follow me because they know that I'm fucking for real in a world full of frauds, phonies and imitators. I am the fucking terminator. Most of today's so-called alternative bands are only a stepping stone for their own capitalistic gains and commercial sellouts. Those are the very people I am out to fucking destroy. I will not fucking put up with fake imagery. They know I am the real motherfucker non-conformist who is not afraid to speak his mind and take the necessary actions to create my own alliance of violence against these corporate puppets. Those who know me or have had to guts to witness one of my rituals knows exactly what I'm talking about and just how brutally raw and honest I am. I'm taking rock 'n' roll back to the danger zone where it belongs and where it will continue to be a threat to out society and government as it is meant to be. The real fans know whey can put their faith in me because I am the voice of the real outcasts and rebels. And as for the psycho fans, I have much more in common with them.
Jay: What is truth? Family? Religion?
GG: Truth is the harsh conflicts of my rock 'n' roll mission for which I am willing to kill and die for. Family is me, myself and I. For religion, I am the master of the temple, the ruler of my body, mind and soul. I am God, Jesus Christ and Satan.
Jay: What role does fear play in what you do?
GG: You must be confronted with fear to face it and beat it down. I create fear in people because it demands reaction. Because only when you unconditionally seek death and enter each day with the reality that this could be your last, only then will you be in full power of yourself and defeat all the fears that in the past had crippled. People come to my performance who thought that they had seen it all. People who have been in third world countries as part of a military outfit have even retreated to the fear I project. A police officer in Georgia had to take a leave of absence from the force after being a witness to the GG Allin experience. The Ann Arbor police department said in a report that it was the most bizarre case they had come across in decades of police work. The Orlando police department said it was the most immoral and disgusting thing they had ever death with. New York city police said it held more fury than a murder scene. Milwaukee police did now know how to book it and Texas police were just plain baffled. Even the psychologists can not put it into perspective. People have had there skulls crushed, broken bones, assaults, rapes, robberies, puking, passing out and dangerous savagery beyond compare. But that is what exactly makes it such a thrilling, uplifting and exciting experience.
Jay: Are you getting tired of everything?
GG: No, I am tireless. Every incarceration opens more doors and wars in my head. Being locked up generates ,ore animosity and vengeful feelings I have towards this society. My mind is always expanding and I feel with this next time out I am ready to take things even further. The music industry and the underground situations the way they are now is giving me my greatest challenge of all. Even as I am about to lead in a rock 'n' roll revolution that will determine who is for the real thing and who is to be fucking buried. As for me, I will be dead before I ever even come close to being tired. I'm an endless source of rage and fire. I'll know when the time is right for the last bloody mutilation.
Jay: Without outrage, without music, who is GG Allin?
GG: I do not set out to outrage just for the sake of outrageousness. I'm out to live my life the only way I know how. The music, sage and rituals are the balance that keep me from going out on a fucking killing spree. Without these outlets of music and performance I would be like a walking atomic bomb waiting to explode. Nobody ever knows what mood I will be in, because just like a snake, you cannot read me. You had just better hope that when you do come around me that you don't pull the wrong fucking triggers. If you do, you will more than likely get a show right on the spot and right in your fucking face, and it will only cost you your flesh and blood.