Black Flag - Calderon Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ, December 2nd 1982

12-02-82 PHOENIX AZ: At this time we were playing new material and it was making some people at the shows a bit hostile. We did that a lot. We would do entire tours with new music in the set, sometimes only doing a few older songs. People were not always that open-minded about this and would yell that we had sold out. I can’t think of a band that was accused of selling out more than Black Flag. We got shit for releasing an album because real bands didn’t release albums. We sold out because we didn’t cut our hair, or because we had a song that was slow or longer than three minutes. Sold out because we had instrumental music in the set. We did all the “wrong” things. All the time we were working our asses off and we were dirt poor. We would read the sellout bullshit and laugh. It might not have been so bad if I had been able to get three meals a day out of our big sellout moves. Imagine having to take shit from these minuscule fakes like Maximum Rock and Roll and Flipside. Anyway, we’re playing away and people in the crowd are screaming for the old songs and we’re doing what we want. They’re getting mad. I took off my clothes and jumped off the PA on top of them. They hated that. I stood up on some partition and started dancing around. A security guy shined his flashlight on me to get me to stop but I just started yelling fuck you pig or something. I eventually got back on stage and we finished the show. It was one of those nights. It became very hard to have a good attitude about “fans” with the shit that people gave us all the time.