GG ALLIN & THE MURDER JUNKIES – ‘HATED’ SPECIAL EDITION DVD There’s are thousands and thousands of hours of GG ALLIN footage around but none have ever got as close and personal as the footage on ‘Hated’. This documentary shot by Todd Phillips fifteen years ago allows the viewer to ‘sit with’ GG, get a glimpse into his mind and composition. Not only does GG paint as clear and natural a picture of himself as the world will ever see but we get glimpses into the Kevin Allin that existed before he took on the GG form, this is where you can learn about GG’s past and what shaped him into the outlaw scumfuc that he was until his dying day. If you want to see GG in all his fucked up glory, the this DVD is for you, but if you want more that that- which I always did, then this documentary caters for that too. In fact, the first time I ever saw ‘Hated’ I thought that all the GG-haters, the people who can’t stand him and just can’t understand why he did what he did should see it. He was an artist but and artist who never stepped out of character, he believed in his work and lived by it and paid for it on several occasions. It’s easy for an artist to create an obnoxious and grotesque piece of work then wash up, change clothes and go back to reality…that’s the thing about GG, his work was his reality, there’s no clean clothes for GG….there are some quite poignant parts in the GG interviews and when would you ever hear a word like that in relation to GG Allin?? And that’s why this movie is such a unique and important piece of documentation. I’m really happy that this special edition has been released because the world needs to learn about this, there will never be another GG Allin and that’s a sad thing. The thing that has always aggravated me is that just because of the fact that GG Allin was a punk rocker, he was instantly something disgusting and repulsive, if he was an artist, however he would have been revered in the realms of Bob Flanagan, Marcus Harvey, Gottfried Helnwein, Jeff Coons or the Chapman Brothers, all of whom I think are great but nowhere near as real as GG. I guess that’s the frightening thing for society, that he was just so real and so unpredictable…Todd Phillips caught GG at the pinnacle of his psychosis, rage and hate, hence the appropriate title of the movie and you certainly see a very dark side to the man. I highly recommend this even if you’re not a GG Allin fan, just if you’re a rock ‘n’ roll fan because this is a masterpiece that will never be repeated…all you phoney ‘shock’ rockers take not and hang your heads in shame, when you contract blood poisoning from getting faeces in an open wound all caused completely by yourself, maybe we can talk. This special edition contains a whole bunch of exclusive extras including interviews with GG’s brother Merle, Dino Sex, GG’s Mon and a commentary by Todd Phillips, Merle and Dino as well as music videos and a gallery of the cover art contest. The rock ‘n’ roll world needs this to keep the fire of danger and pandemonium burning, if only someone had made a documentary about Bobby Ebz maybe we’d have had more than one GG…Very highly recommended. Oh yeah, you get the opportunity to purchase a limited edition print of the GG Allin portrait painted by John Wayne Gacy with this special release as well as some GG Allin transfer tattoos. MVD Visual www.mvdvisual.com .