This rare 7″ was a gig-freebie (read the label imprint). In the b.e. years (before-ebay), you used to hear about a BLACK FLAG promo 7″ with “Damaged” outtakes but nobody I knew had further information. Since the Internet on the one hand destroyed the adventurous fun of record collecting and, on the other, made it so much more effective, it’s safe to say that “Licorice Pizza” is that promo thing. Well, it wasn’t a promo, as you see, and there aren’t really outtakes on it (an alternative take of “Thirsty and miserable” and a live recording of “Life of Pain”) – but still I think this 7″ is among the very best of BLACK FLAG. Henry’s vocals are little less promiently set in the mix which helps, plus the A-side is very very dirty. Here’s for you enjoy!
Thirsty and miserable.mp3
Life of Pain.mp3
PS: One source said 500 made, the other 2000. Who knows more? Has this been reissued?
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never heard of this one before!!! GRREEAATT!!!!!!
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It’s been reissued just lately with some extra stuff. This one pops up quiet often at eBay so my take is 2000. GREAT by the way!
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i dont think its been legaly reissued, i believe its a bootleg with the extra songs.
this is a great 7″.
timmy
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Still have this 7″…was given a free copy in London’s Rough Trade shop back in ’81. Black Flag were on their first ever UK visit and dropped some off at the shop and requested they be given away free to anyone who purchased US hardcore records. I always understood there were only 200 of these pressed. Whatever, it is a fantastic 7″ !!.
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I picked this up at Licorice Pizza (an small chain of independent record stores in LA) when it came out in 1981. I am guessing they pressed at least 1000. They weren’t given away at gigs, but popped up at record stores here and there. At the time, I could have walked out of Licorice Pizza with the entire box of singles, they could have cared less!
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So did this come out before or after Damaged?
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I actually just bought this on vinyl in NYC. The inside jacket said that indeed 1000 copies were pressed. Also included on the reissue (the one I bought, still incredibly rare) is a version of Spray Paint, with Dez Cadena on vocals. No dis to Henry, but this version is a thousand times better that the little 15 second filler on Damaged. It is REALLY f*ing tight.
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Cool. I wish the whole Damaged album had sounded like this version of “Thirsty.”
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Wow, many thanks for posting this one, I’ve been looking for it for AGES (it’s the Black Flag Holy Grail really isn’t it?). Strange to think that it all kinda went downhill AFTER Henry joined – guess that just illustrates how powerful a band B.F. were from the off…?
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i saw a reissue of this at amoeba. i was gonna get it but passed it up for the first germs single. it even said it was a reissue.
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Is it really that rare? I remember that it was kind of easy to get at record fares in the late 80′s. I’m not exactly sure, but I think I got mine from Tim Yohannon in exchange for some German record he was looking for, the first KFC LP maybe…
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I met Henry Rollins a couple nights ago and had him sign my copy. I asked him how many of these were printed and he looked it up. There were 1,000. Many of them were thrown away by Licorice Records as they weren’t taken, so there aren’t all that many left.
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November 12th, 2011 at 09:15
Thanks for the info.
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