Part Two: GG Allin On the Audience & the Music Industry

Interviewer's words are in boldface; GG's words are in regular text
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I read that you see the audience as your enemy.

Yeah, the overall picture... I mean, I see everybody as my enemy. I mean, I don't have friends anyway. I mean, I walk around Michigan, I walk around... I mean, everywhere I've lived, people hate me. And I don't hang out with people. I just do my thing, and fuck everybody else. I look after myself, and you know, I use whoever I've got to use to get wherever I've got to go.

And my whole thing is, you know, my drive and my mission are so important, and like... I've got to just be full speed ahead like a locomotive. And if people are with me, they're with me, and when they fall away, they fall away. It's like, I don't look back. I just... they're gone. You know, it's like bands. They'll be there for a minute, and they'll be gone. And then there'll be another band; they'll be gone. I'll just keep going.

So, you know, the whole world is my enemy, so the audience is my enemy. And that's how you can weed out who's there just to be a spectator and who's there to actually become an ally once the show's over, and just, you know, back what you do. It's kind of a separation. A lot of people come just to see what it's all about, and those are the people... I mean, 'cause I go off on everybody. I don't see faces, I don't see individuals. I just go out, and the whole audience is just a target.

You mentioned your drive, your mission. What's your mission?

My mission is just to completely put danger and fear back into rock 'n' roll. I mean, the overall picture is destroy rock 'n' roll and rebuild it in my name.

But the whole thing is, the industry is so... I mean, everybody's climbing the corporate ladder. The underground is the underground, and bands are outrageous just for the fact... to be outrageous, only to get a name and then sell out. You know, "we'll get people to notice..."

I mean, it's like, where other people leave off, I accelerate. It's like, people go so far, and then they go here... it's like... I mean, I just keep going and going and going. I've had, you know, probably a million opportunities to go the way that... you know, people like Henry or Jello or some of these guys have gone. And I'm just like, man, I've just got to keep the danger. I've got to keep this GG Allin. You know, it doesn't have to be real professional. The attitude is more important, really, than anything else. And that spontaneous violent mood. It's... you just can't... you come to the show, you don't know... that's the way it's got to be.

So I'm just there to put that dagger in the music industry. And the thing is, the music industry hates me. They fuckin' hate me, but it's like, they can't stop me. It's like, they keep thinking, "well, he'll go away". They told me 13 years ago, "well, forget him. He'll go..." and, it's like, he never goes away, and he keeps getting... and my fans just seem to get... I get more of a following all the time. It scares them, because I'm taking money away from them. Money that they'd be spending on major records. And they can't figure it out.

The thing is, if you believe in it, and, more than anything else, if you're willing to lose everything to get where you've got to go. And the main thing is, I believe... I live real cheap. I don't pay bills, I don't work, I don't have relationships, I don't have friendships. My whole thing is, I live for myself. The mission is, like... you can't be stopped if you're in that position, because nothing can take away from it. It's like, if I had a girlfriend, you know, that might slow me down. If I had a lot of friends, that might slow me down. If I really gave a fuck about this person, that might slow me down. It's like, the only thing I think about is what I've got to do, and if you're there, you're there, and if you're not, you're gone.

So I think that's why I can keep going. And the government wants to stop it, and everybody... you know, everybody kinda wants to put a stop to it, but I don't owe anybody. I don't owe bills. Everything I own will fit in a suitcase. So I can just go and go and go, and do what I've got to do, and do all this shit, and just get away with it.