{"id":6318,"date":"2016-07-31T18:53:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T16:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2019-01-28T15:43:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T13:43:21","slug":"they-love-us-we-love-them-we-can-win-no-way-flag-iiii-was-not-a-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/?p=6318","title":{"rendered":"… THEY LOVE US, WE LOVE THEM, WE CAN WIN – NO WAY FLAG IIII WAS NOT A KILLER!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tale of the two Black Flag incarnations has been an ugly one, with law suits and what have you but in the end of the day it boils down to mu-sick for me. And there it is a rather clear cut:<\/p>\n

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Greg Ginn’s outfit called Black Flag continued down the path of the late Black Flag and their – at least to my ears – slow and complicated metal style  and seems to be on hiatus since their ill fated “What The …” 2013 LP (with a non-Pettibon cover that just illustrates how off Ginn seems to be).<\/p>\n

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On the other side founding members Keith Morris (vocals) and Chuck Dukowski (bass) play with former members Dez Cadena (rhythm and vocals) and Bill Stevenson (drums) plus the addition of Stephen Egerton (Descendents\/ALL guitar hero) and keep their stuff clearly on the early Black Flag output (with some small excursions into heavier stuff, then sung by Dez).<\/p>\n

And they name themselves Flag IIII and they are the clear winner on all counts. If you ask me. Curiosity test: For those who dare mix old Black Flag stuff with Keith singing with the first Off! EPs – and then guess what is Black Flag and what is Off!<\/p>\n

Proceedings where kicked off with Teenage Hate from Hamburg and it was their last stand.<\/p>\n

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Teenage Hate (Knust Hamburg, 29.07.2016 (c) gehkacken.de)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were hampered with line up issues but provided a hard and to-the-point set nevertheless. Unfortunately, as ever, to a rather empty space in front of the stage and many folks rather having a chat and a beer at the bar. The missed songs like this one though:<\/p>\n

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Next on Krank from Hamburg (not the band with the same name and the allmost same genre from Z\u00fcrich) and their “krankpunk<\/em>“. They are in mind much more gifted than Teenage Hate but they did not get their recorded sound onto the stage  that night if you ask me.<\/p>\n \n

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