Cool new shit... with dope Black Flag "Six Pack" Dukowski baseline sample.

Watch ‘The Slog Movie’ in its punk entirety below:

BLACK FLAG Target Video complete (incredible half hour of clips)

BLACK FLAG - RISE ABOVE - Target Video

Black Flag era Henry Rollins Skating circa 1982 on my IG

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HENRY ROLLINS still in his first year as BLACK FLAG’s 4th lead vocalist taking a break from thier rigorous practicing schedule - harDCore S.O. A. transplant and still a skateboarder. I believe i got Henry hooked up with this free equipment from Powell Peralta and Independent (we even ended up making a few images that became an Indy ad in Thrasher on this same roll of film) remember folks H was a skater before he was a punk rocker (becuase when Henry became a skater there really wasn’t anything people called PUNK yet!), and once that’s in your veins that shit ain’t really ever coming out if you’re not a poseur. This is probably early 1982 or late ‘81 just down the block from the grungy SST office (one small room) where most of the band lived and worked. Henry is as real as they come. One can even make the argument that the term HARD CORE in PUNK has a LOT to do with this man. So here he is coming off a wall, and if you flip to the left he’s doing his take on a classic flat land curbed layback, and just for the hell of it i threw in the popular sticker of the day that the band would hand out during the time when ADAM AND THE ANTS were all the pop rage. I uncovered all these gems while out west for the holiday in my attic archive at my moms ...#PunkRock #BlackFlag #Skateboarding #integrity #inspiration #HaNK #HenryRollins #BonesBrigade #SeriousAsAHeartAttack #AWDFA #GIVINGZEROFUCKS #ArchiveDiscovery #Holiday so yeah, happy fucking holidays to you all and for you assholes who need it specific just to your belief merry fucking XMas.. dig this.

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Henry Rollins - Punk Rock Hyenas This Is Not Happening - Uncensored

Early photograph of Henry Rollins First Black Flag show at the nest!

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HENRY ROLLINS - 1981 - Cuckoos Nest, Costa Mesa (near Hunting Beach) - HANK is 55 years old today! This was not the first time i met Henry, that was at Irving Plaza earlier in the Summer when he was still Henry Garfield, the Circle Jerks were playing and Henry was there from DC selling his S.O.A. 7" singles (they were on green vinyl) he gave me a couple, one for me and one for me to give to Brian "Pushead" Schroeder to review in "SkateBoarders' ACTION NOW" magazine... Next time I'd see him would be at "Oki Dog" in Hollywood, and i said "Hey, i remember you, what are you doing out here?" He said, "I'm Black Flag's new singer!" Wtf? Really? I was so damned jealous! And he let me know the first gigs would be down at "the Nest"... I went and he was great. Although i gotta admit i never could get into the way he sang the songs I was so used to hearing Keith sing on the 1st single and a couple of the Ron sung songs on the "Jealous Again" EP, but you can't front on anything else, he was fucking GREAT. My camera was probably in my bag for a few songs, then it had to come out... Made some great great photographs that day, this one included, and a bunch of others, you can see in my books, especially in the MY RULES book. Henry also wrote a piece for the book that's fucking awesome. He was the first to turn his essay in, within twenty minutes of me asking for it! He may not be the friendliest or warmest guy in the room, it's no act, he's as serious as a heart attack and i respect the hell outa this guy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HENRY AND BEST WISHES FOR YOUR BEST YEAR YET - 2.13.61 the date of his birth and the name of his publishing company, who distributed the first printing of FUCK YOU HEROES ("H" wrote the "book flap" text) he's the motherfucking man! #MyRules #GetTheNewBook #henryrollins #HarDCore #BlackFlag #SOA #integrity #inspiration #PUNK #real #respect #author #punkrock #gogo #musiclover #getinthevan #WashingtonDC #SkateBoarder #journalist #BadAss

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Inspiring cover of RISE ABOVEBLACK FLAG for your Friday!

This is unbelievably good!

CHUCK DUKOWSKI of BLACK FLAG circa 1982 on my IG

CHUCK DUKOWSKI (the heart and soul) of BLACK FLAG playing at the backstage of some theater around august 1982 is my best estimate. It was a weird venue that i can't remember the name of. The show was fucking incredible, when Black Flag was a five piece and Chuck Biscuits was drumming (Henry vox, Duke bass, Dez rhythm guitar, and Ginn lead guitar)... A peak time for Black Flag in my mind... This shirt Chuck is wearing was new and about as hard core as you could get at the time (the Raymond Pettibone, Police Story flyer).. This photograph is pretty rare, but several from this evening have been published over the years (including in my original MY RULES photozine) and the best of them in the MY RULES book... The book is huge, 324 pages, 13wide x 11.5tall, weighs in at almost 8 pounds, indeed a heavyweight. The best of my books FUCK YOU HEROES and FUCK YOU TOO + about 30% more you've never seen, all bigger and better than ever! Then there's the essays from 22 of my incredible subjects on what inspired them to get to that point in time when i worked with them. INSPIRING! #BlackFlag #ChuckDukowski #FLAG #integrity #hardcorePunk #hardcoreCalifornia #BASS #Pettibone #PoliceStory #RaymondPettibone #WhatISee #DAMAGED #NoMore #photography #lovewhatyoudo #LearningNeverStops #inspiration #punk #punkrock #rebels #FuckYouHeroes #skateboarding #hiphop #politics #DogTown #GoldenEra #intense #GetTheNewBook From you local bookstore or if you can't get it there, get it online, you won't be disappointed. And if you already got it, spread the inspiration!

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Black Flag playing a garage party On my IG

BLACK FLAG (spring 1983) This rare photograph was never seen until the MY RULES book. Black Flag playing a garage party on a Saturday afternoon in West Los Angeles at my request, in order to get as many SUICIDALs together at one time, admission was you needed to be wearing your ST hand drawn shirt to get in the back yard (unless you came w/BLACK FLAG) all so i could photograph as many of their shirts as possible for the forthcoming debut SUICIDAL TENDENCIES album cover. I produced the album, shot all the photos, designed the whole shit and even managed the band for a while, til i quit... This was an incredible gig, BLACK FLAG were incredible, and in fact it was Dezo's last time playing in the original band. There's some video you can find on line if you don't believe me, shot by Al Flipside. #DOPE #punkrock #HeavyBeyondWords and I can't front, when the Suicidal's played after Black Flag, they couldn't even get through a full song before shit was knocked down, and had to keep starting over and over, it was wild... #garageband #garageparty @SuicidalTendencies #HenryRollins #DezCadena #ChuckDukowski #GregGinn #billstevenson - And contrary to popular belief, this was not Mike Muir's garage, but in fact it was the garage of the grandmother of one of ST's roadies Albert. #DIY #KeepItReal #OldSchool #Westside #PUNK Did i forget to mention this photo appears as a full 13" wide page in the MY RULES book? #MyRules #GetTheNewBook P.S. I was using my trusty PENTAX with the 17mm fisheye and the double flash bracket contraption i built to make this photograph.

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One of My Favorite Photographs I ever made on my early instagram

BLACK FLAG 1981 one of Henry's first shows as Black Flag's official vocalist (#4). This is one of my favorite pictures I've ever made. The intensity is captured perfectly without sparing any composition or character, which sweats and bleeds out of the frame at the infamous Cuckoo's Nest. #punkrock #RiseAbove #hardcore #HeavyBeyondWords #HenryRollins #DezCadena #ChuckDukowski #GregGinn #ROBO - #KeepItReal #OldSchool #cuckoosnest #HB #goofy #CostaMesa #PUNK #GetTheNewBook #MyRules ... did i forget to mention this photo is 11.5" tall in MY RULES

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BLACK FLAG, MY WAR demo Made at the band's absolute peak!

Taken from "The Complete 1982 Demos".
These are the only recordings the band made with possibly their strongest lineup: Henry Rollins on vocals, Greg Ginn and Dez Cadena on guitar, Chuck Dukowski on bass, and Chuck Biscuits on drums.

Chuck Dukowski - BLACK FLAG very rare photograph on my instagram feed

CHUCK DUKOWSKI of BLACK FLAG at practice somewhere in the SouthBay section of Los Angeles, early 1982. I was lucky enough to have sat in on practice with Black Flag many times, even made photos a few times. Now ordinarily one would think at practice what are you gonna shoot some corny portraits? or half ass playing tuning? and writing? FUCK NO ... BLACK FLAG WERE BRINGING IT! Like their lives depended on it! 6-8 hour days of practice, often, their practice could be more intense than a gig!! so eventually i decided to bring my camera a few times. This practice was especially intense, i shot an amazing roll of film here or maybe even two, made some incredible photographs including the iconic image of Henry that was used on the cover of SPRAY PAINT THE WALLS (The Story of Black Flag) as well as classics of Greg and another of Chuck with that crazy mustache, when the head of his base smashed the flash off the top of my camera. They were my favorite band of the era and Dukowski was the heart and soul of that band to me. A real badass. Intelligent. A few weeks ago when i was out in L.A. for the Skateboarding Hall of Fame event, i took an afternoon to visit Chuck and his wife Lora down in Venice, i ended up hanging out for like 7 hours! Great people, never enough of them, I’m stoked to have such good friends around the world (or at least the parts of it I’ve visited). #PunkRock #inspiration #Integrity #TheDuke #Dukowski #BASS #PunkRockChangedOurLives #WhatISee #NoMore #PaddedCell #HardcorePunk #TheMan #Legendary #Flag (totally worth seeing) also if you look close there’s an ACTION NOW sticker on the bass head there 😉 #MyRules get the book hear the song... everything through the recording of the DAMAGED album is what i am referring to when i discuss their greatness and inspiration to ME (save a few songs) GO LISTEN TO THAT STUFF AND STOP FLIPPING THROUGH INSTAGRAM 👊🏽

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Black Flag's Chuck Dukowski talks Dmp presidency (before it happened)

HENRY ROLLINS: 'I Don't Know If You Could Even Have A BLACK FLAG In 2016'

from BlabberMouth:

Earlier in the year, Moshcam conducted an interview with Henry Rollins, former lead singer with BLACK FLAG and current spoken-word performer, actor and "punk" journalist, while he was in Sydney, Australia. You can now watch the chat below.

Asked how he thinks a band like BLACK FLAG would be received if it was formed in 2016 and not forty years earlier, Rollins said: "I don't know if there's ingredients in society in America that would birth a band like BLACK FLAG right now. With cell phones and Bandcamp sites and relative convenience, I don't know if a band like BLACK FLAG — which was birthed out of anger and police oppression and having our phones tapped and people throwing stuff at the band — I don't know if you would have gotten that level of anger and precision and hostility coming from us, 'cause we were all of that. I don't know if those ingredients would be in place to be able to mold and temper that kind of music. I think BLACK FLAG was truly a product of the late '70s [and] early '80s California, where cops were just going to gigs and just beating the daylights out of kids, and there was drugs that were killing kids — a lot of speed, a lot of heroin — and there's certainly that now, sadly. So I don't know if you could even have a BLACK FLAG in 2016."

He continued: "How would it be regarded now? Probably no one would be there throwing ashtrays at our heads. They'd be going, 'Wow! Your anger's so great. Can I get a photo with you?' I think it would be that. It's a softer… I'm aware of things… Maybe I'm just old and curmudgeonly, but all of those music scenes I see these days, they're very soft, in my opinion."

Rollins was the frontman for BLACK FLAG from 1981 to 1986. In that time he developed a worldwide reputation thanks to his wild, ferocious stage presence and his penchant for violence.


BLACK FLAG disbanded in 1986 because of the strained relationship between Rollins and the group's founder Greg Ginn.

In 1995, Henry won a Grammy in the "Best Spoken Word Or Non-Musical Album" category for the audiobook version of his non-fiction work "Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag".

Ginn in 2013 announced a new BLACK FLAG album and tour with onetime frontman Ron Reyes. Later the very same day, four other former members of BLACK FLAG announced the formation of FLAG — a tribute to all eras of the band, featuring founding singer and current OFF! frontman Keith Morris, bassist Chuck Dukowski, drummer Bill Stevenson, singer-turned-guitarist Dez Cadena and newly adopted guitarist Stephen Egerton, Stevenson's longtime bandmate in his main outfit, fellow SoCal punk legends the DESCENDENTS.

Misfits Danzig, Rollins and Liberty all screaming into the same mic from my Instagram

MISFITS - GLENN DANZIG with HENRY ROLLINS (Black Flag) and EARL LIBERTY (Saccharine Trust) singing along together at The Whisky, circa 1982. * I believe this was the first time i saw the Misfits and took them seriously, after Henry (Rollins) urging, it was hard at first to get past the spooky shit and the get-ups, but they were really great, fun, and loud! I pulled out my camera and shot a roll or two this evening. Great time. This post was spurred by the recent reunion gigs. And i heard the one in Jersey also sold out! A few other incredible MIFITS photographs from this same night appear huge in the MY RULES book. #FiendClub #Misfits #Danzig #GlennDanzig #punk #Lodi #newjersey #WeAre138 #20eyes #horrorbusiness #PunkRock #DirtyJerz #PUNK #inspiration #crooner #HenryRollins #BlackFlag #EarlLiberty #SaccharineTrust #1982

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The full BLACK FLAG Target video

I own a copy of this half hour on 3/4" tape somewhere... The Dez clips are incredible... as are the live Henry clips, but he was still kinda new at the time, not 100% settled in yet. Gotta love this live stuff . . .



Yeah that's me in the embarrassing "TV Party" video that Dukowski and I wrote the story line to on the way up to SF.

it get's better after that clip...

One of My All Time Favorite Photographs - BLACK FLAG on my InstaGram

BLACK FLAG - 1981 at the infamous Cuckoo’s Nest in Costa Mesa (near Huntington Beach). This is one of Henry's first shows as Black Flag's official vocalist (#4). This is one of my favorite pictures I've ever made. My favorite band of the era by far. The DAMAGED album is an absolute peak for them, it was being recorded around this time. The intensity is captured perfectly in this photograph, without sparing any composition or character, which sweats and bleeds out of the frame. #punkrock #MyRules #BlackFlag #PUNK #AF #inspiration #Integrity #PracticePracticePractice #Sweat #RiseAbove #hardcore #HeavyBeyondWords #HenryRollins #DezCadena #ChuckDukowski #GregGinn #ROBO - #KeepItReal #OldSchool #cuckoosNest #HB #goofy #CostaMesa #goingOff #GetTheNewBook #MyRules ... did i forget to mention this photo is 11.5" tall in MY RULES (after it first appeared in FUCK YOU HEROES) get it from any bookstore or Amazon if you must. #FILM #35mm #FullFrame #DMAx

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MINOR THREAT - IAN MACKAYE - ... July 1982 at show in southern California, with The Dead Kennedys, MDC, and The Zero Boys, allon the bill. An incredible night, in my all time top ten Punk shows, everyone killed it. Minor Threat one of the greatest hardcore punk bands ever, practically responsible for the term “Hardcore”. Everyone LOVED them and in the front row here in the photograph there is Dave from MDC and Big Frank from GoldenVoice... This photo is in the, 324 page, huge, MY RULES book. Get it at your local book store or Amazon if you can’t find it locally. #inspiration #integrity #PUNK #HarDCore #OldSchool #WashingtonDC #MDC #GetOutaMyShot #DISCHORD #WhatTheFuckHaveYouDone? #MinorThreat #StraightEdge @dischordrecords #1982 #ImAPersonJustLikeYou #screamingAtAWall #OutOfStep @dischordrecords #1982 #MyRules

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LL COOL J - St Albans, Queens early 90’s. By this time i had known LL for a while and i was brought back into the fold to do the photography for “14 Shots to the Dome” after a couple of covers that weren’t quite up to par with the last one I did with him (B.A.D.) Lots of cool images during this day long session. This one was published in my book THE IDEALIST.. the streaks of light behind him are cause by a liquid tanker truck driving by as i was doing a time exposure. Check the details of the car and background due to the time exposure with only available light on the street. I love this photograph. May not have been his most creative era, but we made some cool as fuck photos this day. Out on Farmers Blvd. that he name checked on his records time and again, it’s always good to shoot in a persons own ‘hood. #HipHop #Rap #BBoy #LLCOOLJ #inspiration #DefJam #The Idealist #BMW #14shotsToTheDome #FILM #35mm #Kodachrome #PhotoSession #Work #art #chillin #TimeExposure

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HENRY ROLLINS, in the band BLACK FLAG at this time, at a rented rehearsal space circa 1982. If you have read the captions in any of my books or seen me talk about Black Flag during this era, you would know that practice to them was often more intense than a show. I felt privileged that i was able to hang out at practice now and again during this peak era, and occasionally make photographs too. They were my favorite band, hands down. The trials and tribulations they endured with police crackdowns were unheard of for any other band ever. BLACK FLAG were a huge inspiration, not just trend setters or trailblazers, they fucking kicked ass and were serious about what they did. Many of us learned from them. Their work ethic was unmatched. Their self sufficiency was emulated. DIY ‘cause without it, it did not happen. All my favorite output came up until the time Chuck Dukowski left the band, Damaged one of the greatest albums ever, and the “First Four Years” package a must for anyone who wasn’t around as each of those EPs were released. #RiseAbove #PUNK #PunkRock #HardcorePunk #BLACKFLAG #DAMAGED #KnowYourRoots #NervousBreakdown #Revenge #NoValues #SprayPaint #AmericanWaste #RiseAbove #Damaged #ThirstyAndMiserable #NoMore #GimmeGimmeGimme #MyWar #OG #SouthBay #WashingtonDC #harDCore #PracticePracticePractice #CreepyCrawl this photograph first appeared in My book FUCK YOU HEROES and several from this same afternoon also appear in the MY RULES book, as well the cover of the BLACK FLAG biography written by Stevie Chick also used photos from this day on the front and back covers. #SeriousAsAHeartAttack #FUN #early80s #REAL #aggro #release #energy

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DR. KNOW (Gary Miller) of BAD BRAINS circa 1981 at a club called “A7” in the east village here in NYC. I am posting this photograph today because i spent some time hanging out with Gary over in Tompkins Square Park sunday afternoon, less than a few hundred feet away from where i made this photo! We and what seemed like a 1000 others were celebrating the life of RAY BEEZ who passed away 20 years ago this weekend. There were bands playing all afternoon, with plenty of NYHC all-stars... good fun seeing a lot of the old punk friends and the new ones too. The club A7 had a stage less than a foot off the ground, the dance floor and the stage where the room was, was probably 15’x15’ feet. Gigs there were amazing. This night i believe the BAD BRAINS played with either The UnDead or Reagan Youth, or maybe both! Wish you coulda been there! Good news is Gary said HR is more his old self than he’s been in 40 years 😃 this was the best thing to hear. They are playing some shows soon, something tells me these may be better than they have in as many years. #BadBrains #knowYourRoots #Punk #NYC #DC #RightBrigade #FearlessVampireKillers #SailinOn #PMA #PositiveMentalAttitude #HardCorePunk #inspiration #OG #Originals #WashingtonDC #BadAss #A7 #PunkRock #GuitarHero #FuckYouHeroes #MyRules Gary put some words together for the MY RULES book as well... if you haven’t seen it, I don’t know why, it beats the hell outa this Instagram stuff ✌🏽 (Niagra is the current name of the location where the A7 club was, in the back room down 7th street). #EastVillage

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Black Flag radio interview during their first visit to the UK 1981 (10 minutes audio)

Yeah, somehow one of my first photos of the band with Henry in it got attached to this clip...
back behind the "Cuckoo's Nest" in Costa Mesa (by Huntington Beach) August '81