Tag Archives: Gone

Although Greg Ginn’s record label SST was, in early stages, from the angry, overamped guitar rant of SoCal hardcore (a few of which came thanks to Ginn’s very own band Dark Flag), SST was also recording bands that pushed the limits of hardcore. Rings just like the Minutemen, General Congress …

Formed close to the end of his tenure because the leader of LA hardcore legends Dark Flag, Greg Ginn’s instrumental group Eliminated walked the unusual fine range between atonal jazz, riff-heavy rock and roll, and short forays into funk stylings sporadically from 1986 onward. The very first Gone discharge, Let’s …

The provocative San Francisco-based quartet Oxbow formed in the past due ’80s around vocalist Eugene Robinson, guitarist Niko Wenner, bassist Dan Adams, and drummer Greg Davis. Merging the squall of rings like the PARTY with components of free of charge jazz and musique concrète, the group debuted in 1990 with …

Led by ex-Saccharine Trust axewielder Joe Baiza, Common Congress Of started as the name for Baiza’s 1987 single record later getting the name of his okay, funky backing strap. Although on his debut single LP he was still playing semi-improvised, avant-garde jazz-rock much like what he was discovering in Saccharine …

Unquestionably probably the most influential guitarist to emerge from the later-’70s/early-’80s U.S. hardcore/punk motion was Dark Flag’s Greg Ginn. Under no circumstances afraid to include other musical designs into his playing (specifically jazz fusion and Dark Sabbathy rock), in addition to squealing responses from his amplifier, Ginn’s electric guitar also …