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.''
