His songs - such as they were - were comically over-the-top hell-raisers about substance abuse, casual violence, and sexual conduct that was at best degrading and at worst criminal. Needless to say, he also ingested enormous amounts of booze and drugs, served several prison terms, and even promised to commit suicide on-stage on Halloween (he died of an overdose in 1993 before he could follow through). Rarely performing for more than 10-20 minutes before clubs shut him down, Allin usually took the stage in a jockstrap and wound up nude he beat himself bloody with broken bottles, torn cans, and microphones (when he wasn't trying to shove the latter up his own ass) he attacked and was attacked by his own audience he urinated on the stage, on his band, on the audience he frequently took laxatives before shows in order to defecate on the stage, after which he generally ate his own feces or threw them at the audience and yet, somehow, he still found audience members willing to perform oral sex on him on-stage. Music was almost incidental to his violent, scatological stage act, which got him arrested over 50 times for a litany of offenses, and made Iggy Pop's antics with the Stooges look like The Donny & Marie Show. Wherever the truth lay, there can be no doubt that Allin was the most spectacular degenerate in rock & roll history. To others, he was a lunatic whose attempts to shock and disgust were too ham-fisted to be taken seriously. Allin was the ultimate symbol of rock & roll rebellion, taking it to extremes that no one else was dangerous enough to explore.
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