Black Flag

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风格: #朋克　#硬核朋克
地区: United States of America 美国

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始终保持着年轻的焦虑，Black Flag（黑旗）乐队无愧为纯朋克摇滚的典范。重金属的即兴反复、急速的鼓点以及充满城市谩骂的歌词，Black Flag简直就是一架强烈攻击性的机器。如果你去深入了解他们，你将发现他们没有丝毫的温柔。

成立Black Flag的构想来自加利福尼亚的一个说话迟钝但却有着敏锐的商业意识和深厚音乐基础的音乐人Greg Ginn（格雷格·金），他成为了Balck Flag的吉他手，并且由此成立了着名的SST唱片－－在很多年内被看作是南加州硬核摇滚的阵地。金的吉他演奏简直就是不折不扣的攻击，加上一些奇怪的吉它反复，这使得同时期的那些英国朋克领袖们也要虚心的向Black Flag学习。乐队歌词充满了朋克青年的颓废、对社会的抱怨、以及对自己毫无社会价值的一种满足等等。

1981年，乐队开始自己硬核朋克典范乐队的路程，邀请了凯德那（Cadena）担任专职节奏吉他手，请来了乐队初期的忠实乐迷和经济赞助者－－冰淇淋店的老板亨利·罗林斯（Henry Rollins）。罗林斯的到来，让金可以全心的投入到唱片公司的发展上去，在金的努力下，Black Flag五年内推出了十多张专辑。罗林斯参与创作了专辑《My War》，之后乐队以罗林思的诗歌谱写了专辑《Family Man》。罗林思的歌词将攻击性调和以他的才智，这让乐队的新老专辑风格都会有很大的不同。

美国朋克真正的黄金时期还是在八十年代初的硬核时代，从音乐角度来说，硬核不过是更加极端的朋克摇滚，更加脏乱、吵闹、僵硬。但这个时代的乐队，第一次把朋克音乐扩展为一种全面爆发的运动。他们的影响也比CBGB时代要深远得多，它的审美方式也被后来的激流金属、速度金属、死亡金属、碾核、垃圾乐、另类金属、朋克复兴运动乃至整个另类摇滚乐界发扬光大，并最终促成了九十年代垃圾乐、朋克复兴的主流化。

Black Flag(黑旗)无疑是当时最出色的代表。他们不仅保持了朋克一贯的冲劲，而且结合了爵士乐、重金属、噪音摇滚等风格，创造出更加丰满的音乐氛围，成为美国朋克史上第一支具有深远影响的硬核朋克乐队。他们不仅界定了自己的硬核审美观，而且在朋克和重金属之间找到了完美的结合点，为日后的激流金属和朋克金属奠定了坚实的基础。Black Flag复杂的音乐元素、波西米亚风格的试验色彩、诗化的歌词在八十年代名噪一时，成为当时地下音乐最具哲人风采的硬核乐队。

1981年Black Flag因对Unicorn(麒麟)唱片公司以“内容过于危险、粗俗”为由封杀专辑《Damage》的行为大为不满，一怒之下成立了他们自己的SST公司的名义发行了这张硬核经典。结果是，乐队在专辑被惊叹为“地下世界的曙光”的同时被麒麟公司告上法庭，陷入了一场旷日持久的官司，乐队甚至被禁止在此阶段使用乐队的名称和标识。不过这件事对Black Flag毫无影响，他们在两年内疯狂巡演，在高峰时期甚至还秘密发行了一张粗糙的精选双专辑《Everything Went Black》。老天有眼，1983年，麒麟公司宣告破产，这场官司最终不了了之。或许想追回以前的时间，乐队从1984年起开始变得难以置信的多产。到1985年共完成了《My War》、《Family Man》、《Slip It In》、《Live '84》、《Loose Nut》、《The Process of Weeding Out》等九张专辑，Black Flag的事业达到了巅峰。

这个时期Black Flag不仅在音乐上取得了空前的成功，更为重要的是他们的SST公司为推进硬核摇滚的发展作出了突出的贡献。SST的空前成功导致了乐队元老Greg Ginn在1986年突然决定解散Black Flag，以便把精力更多地投入到公司事务当中。他的决定当然有他的道理，一切革命都需要有领导者，而SST正是硬核革命领导者的最佳人选。SST最辉煌的时期旗下拥有一批重量级的硬核乐队——Black Flag、Husker Du、Meat Puppets(肉偶)、Descendents(世袭)、Minutemen(民兵)、Bad Brains(坏脑)、fIREHOSE(消防水管)、Buffalo Tom(布法罗·汤姆)、Soundgarden(音响花园)、Sonic Youth(音速青年)、Screaming Trees(尖叫的树)……这些乐队的重要性不言而喻，他们的影响力一直延续到今天，为日后非主流、独立摇滚的指明了方向。这段时期的乐队体现出了前所未有的创造力和艺术感染力：Husker Du的优雅、Bad Brains的超级速度、Sonic Youth的噪音试验、Minutemen的爵士乐风采、Meat Puppets的乡村味道……没有什么遗憾，没有黯然神伤，尽管这个辉煌的时代最终在九十年代左右随着SST公司的明星乐队相继解散或加入主流大唱片公司而结束，但他们已经赋予了这个时代最真实的声音和最危险的激情。

In many ways, Black Flag were the definitive Los Angeles hardcore punk band. Although their music flirted with heavy metal and experimental noise and jazz more than that of most hardcore bands, they defined the image and the aesthetic. Through their ceaseless touring, the band cultivated the American underground punk scene; every year, Black Flag played in every area of the U.S., influencing countless numbers of bands. Although their recording career was hampered by a draining lawsuit, which was followed by a seemingly endless stream of independently released records, the band was unquestionably one of the most influential American post-punk bands. A full decade and a half before the fusion of punk and metal became popular, Black Flag created a ferocious, edgy, and ironic amalgam of underground aesthetics and gut-pounding metal. Their lyrics alluded to social criticism and a political viewpoint, but it was all conveyed as seething, cynical angst, which was occasionally very funny. Furthermore, Black Flag demonstrated an affection for bohemia — both in terms of musical experimentation and a fondness for poetry — that reiterated the bands underground roots and prevented it from becoming nothing but a heavy metal group. And it didnt matter who was in the band — throughout the years, the lineup changed numerous times — because the Black Flag name and four-bar logo became punk institutions.

Black Flag was formed in 1977 by guitarist Greg Ginn, a graduate of UCLA. Ginn formed the band with bassist Chuck Dukowski; the pair soon added drummer Brian Migdol and vocalist Keith Morris. At the same time, Ginn and Dukowski formed an independent record label, SST, which released the bands first EP, Nervous Breakdown, in 1978. Morris and Migdol departed the following year — Morris went on to form the Circle Jerks — and they were respectively replaced with Chavo Pederast and Robo. By the release of 1980s Jealous Again, Black Flag had begun to tour the U.S. relentlessly, building up a small, but dedicated, following of fans. After the release of Jealous Again, Pederast left the group and was replaced by Dez Cadena. However, Cadena preferred to play guitar, and his transition to that instrument in 1981 gave the group a heavier sound; his replacement on vocals was Henry Rollins, a Washington, D.C., fan who jumped on-stage to sing with the band during a New York performance.

Early in 1981, Black Flag signed a record contract with Unicorn Records, a subsidiary of MCA. The band delivered their first full-length album, Damaged, to Unicorn; the label refused to release the record, citing the content of the music as too dangerous and vulgar. Undaunted, Ginn released the album on his own SST Records. Upon its release, the album received considerable critical acclaim. Soon after it appeared on the shelves, Unicorn sued Black Flag and SST over the release of Damaged. For the next two years, the band was prevented from using the name Black Flag or their logo on any records. During that time, the group continued to tour, and surreptitiously released Everything Went Black, a double-album retrospective that contained no mention of the band, although it listed the names of the members on the front cover. The dispute ended in 1983, when Unicorn went bankrupt and the rights to the Black Flag name and logo reverted back to the band (by this time, Cadena had left to form his own group).

As if to make up for lost time, Black Flag became impossibly prolific when it returned to recording in 1984. A new version of the group — featuring Ginn on guitar and bass (the latter was credited to the pseudonym Dale Nixon), Rollins, and drummer Bill Stevenson — recorded the albums My War and Family Man. After those two albums were recorded, the group added bassist Kira Roessler and cut Slip It In, its third official album of 1984. In addition to those three albums, Black Flag released the cassette-only Live 84 and the compilation The First Four Years in 1984, as well as reissuing Everything Went Black with all the proper credits restored. The groups touring and recording pace didnt slow in 1985; they released three records: Loose Nut, The Process of Weeding Out, and In My Head. By the end of the year, Anthony Martinez replaced Stevenson on drums.

After Black Flag released the live album Whos Got the 10½? in early 1986, Greg Ginn broke up the band. Ginn recorded two albums with the more experimental Gone, but he primarily concentrated on running SST Records, which had become one of the most important American independent labels of the era. By the time Black Flag broke up, SST had already released albums by such bands as Hüsker Dü, the Minutemen, Meat Puppets, and Sonic Youth. For most of the late 80s, Ginn retired from performing, choosing to operate SST Records instead; during this time, the label released the first recordings from bands like Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr., and Screaming Trees. Ginn returned to music in 1993, releasing a solo album on his new record label, Cruz.

Following Black Flags breakup, Henry Rollins formed the Rollins Band. For the rest of the 80s, he released music recorded with the Rollins Band on a variety of independent labels, as well as solo spoken-word recordings. In the early 90s, Rollins became one of the most recognizable figures of alternative music.

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