G.G. Allin

GG Allin (born Jesus Christ Allin 29 August 1956 ? 28 June 1993) was a punk singer and bandleader who performed and recorded with many groups during his career. He is best remembered for his notorious live performances that typically featured wildly transgressive acts such as Allin defecating and urinating onstage, rolling in excrement, committing self-injury, performing naked, taunting people to perform fellatio on him, and violent actions toward the audience.

He is best remembered for his notorious live performances that typically featured wildly transgressive acts such as Allin defecating and urinating onstage, rolling in excrement, committing self-injury, performing naked, taunting people to perform fellatio on him, and violent actions toward the audience. Although more notorious for his stage antics than for his wide body of music, he recorded prolifically, not only in the punk rock genre, but also in spoken word, country and Rolling Stones-influenced rock.


Biography

Childhood

He was born Jesus Christ Allin at Weeks' Memorial Hospital, in Lancaster, New Hampshire. He was given this messianic name because his father, Merle Allin, Sr. (a religious and antisocial man), then 32 years old, had told his wife, Arleta Gunther, then 21 years old, that an angel had visited him and told him that his newborn son would be a great man in the vein of the Messiah. As a young child, his older brother, Merle Allin, Jr., was unable to pronounce ?Jesus? properly and kept calling him ?Jeje?, which became ?GG?. The family lived in a log cabin with no water or electricity. Allin's father, who forbade all conversation in the home after dark, was reportedly physically/sexually abusive and mentally unstable, though GG himself never used this as an excuse for any of his own eccentricities.