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Once the novelty of seeing Flag at a Moose Lodge in a suburban beach community wore off, people began to push, crowd-surf and run in circles for tunes such as “Depression,” “I’ve Had It” and “No Values.”īlack Flag’s fourth vocalist, Henry Rollins, sang the Dukowski-written “My War” on the group’s 1984 full-length record of the same name.
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This tame beginning might have been attributed to the fact that the crowd comprised friends and family of the band. The audience sang along for the first three songs, but it wasn’t until Stevenson played the intro to “I Don’t Care” that the swaying movement of the crowd got hectic. Without a pause, the group dove into “Fix Me” and then “Police Story.” Before N.W.A.‘s “Fuck tha Police” or Body Count’s “Cop Killer,” there was “Police Story.” Penned by Black Flag founder-guitarist-songwriter Greg Ginn (whose own version of latter-day Black Flag begins a world tour in May), the song is a direct attack on authority thanks to the opening lines, “This fucking city/Is run by pigs/They’re taking the rights away from/All the kids.” The two-minute song produced a slew of middle fingers as Morris passed the microphone to an already-sweaty crowd. Playing without a stage on a rented P.A., with moose antlers as a backdrop, the quintet opened with “Revenge,” which found the dreadlocked singer whispering the opening line, “It’s not my imagination,” before screaming the follow-up, “I’ve got a gun at my back.” From there, Egerton assaulted his clear Dan Armstrong guitar throughout the punishing B chord intro. Last night, more than 34 years later, Flag – a group comprised of former members Keith Morris (vocals), Chuck Dukowski (bass), Dez Cadena (guitar/vocals) and Bill Stevenson (drums), with Descendents/All guitarist Stephen Egerton – played the same venue to an invite-only crowd of less than 200 people.
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ET: Rolling Stone reports that Ginn has simply been denied a preliminary injunction, which means the lawsuit will continue but that he cannot stop FLAG from their activities as of right now.In 1979, Black Flag played their first show at Moose Lodge 1873 in Redondo Beach, California. 4, above)Īs you can see above, the judge weirdly ruled that Rollins never actually quit Black Flag, a band he hasn't been in since 1986. not fraudulently) - and is thus not necessarily subject to cancellation - given that they understood their actions to have been done on the part of the Black Flag partnership (see No.
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(6) the trademark application and registration that Henry and Keith made was done in good faith (e.g. (5) that even if the plaintiffs had some trademark claim in the marks, there was no likelihood of consumer confusion between Black Flag and Flag given the ample press coverage over the dispute and (4) the defendants' claim that the Black Flag assets were owned by a statutory partnership comprised of various former band members - even if these members only consisted of Henry and Ginn, based on (a) accepting Ginn's argument that he never quit and given that there is no evidence or allegation that Henry ever quit - has merit (3) even if either had had any rights in those marks, they had abandoned those rights through a failure to police the mark for nearly 30 years (2) Ginn seemed to have no individual rights in the Black Flag trademarks (1) the court found that SST had no rights in the trademarks The suit also alleged that when Chuck Dukowski sued Ginn in 2007, the parties settled and as part of the settlement, Dukowski disclaimed any ownership of Black Flag-related marks. Interestingly, Ginn did not actually file for trademark registration for Black Flag-related marks until June 2013, a year after Keith Morris and Henry Rollins claimed ownership of the marks in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The suit, filed back in August, alleged that the FLAG name and related imagery infringe upon the Black Flag trademark, of which Ginn claimed ownership. Greg Ginn has lost his lawsuit against members of FLAG and Henry Rollins, Spin reports.