Variety, July 6, 1993 The singer/performance
artist's brother and bassist, Merle Allin, said G.G. had
been ``partying all day, doing coke'' prior to a show at
Manhattan's Gas Station, an art gallery on the Lower East
Side. As was typical of Allin's gigs, the actual set lasted
about 10 minutes. But, in Merle's words, ``You could sense
it was kind of a grand finale.'' The Gas Station's
particularly violent crowd spilled onto the street and
commenced a bottle-hurling battle with police while G.G.
made his escape to an Avenue B apartment. There, according
to his brother, G.G. copped one too many bags of heroin in
an attempt to cool out. He was found dead the
next morning at 9 a.m., but ``had clearly been dead for
about five hours,'' according to his brother. ``He was
totally blue, and rigor mortis had set in to the point where
I couldn't get the rings off his fingers.'' Allin was buried in New
Hampshire. At his request, he was laid to rest in his
favorite outfit: a dog collar, a leather jockstrap and
boots.
The self-proclaimed ``most violent man in rock 'n' roll,''
Kevin Michael (G.G.) Allin, died June 28 in New York City at
age 36, apparently of a heroin overdose. Allin, whose antics
included hurling his feces at audiences, punching out crowd
members, and holding women at knifepoint (to bring back
``the danger of rock 'n' roll, which is dead,'' he said),
had always claimed his death was destined to come on stage,
preferably on a Halloween and after he'd ``taken a bunch of
you (expletive) out with me.''
