So 34 years ago Black Flag and Venom played city gardens in trenton - this was the stage banter of Cronos from Venom and it remains one of the most hysterical capture of inane babbling by a rock frontman ever

Henry Rollins tells the story of it all in his book "Get in the Van"

like in 2015 Cronos got mad and cried to the music press about it https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/venoms-cronos-henry-rollins-is-a-fool/

He added: "VENOM is weak. Everything about them is weak. They can't even play. They had a bunch of roadies to do everything. Weak, weak, weak.

"VENOM suck. They are so full of shit. What a bad joke. They don't sweat and they probably don't even fuck."

Henry and crew thought that venom and fans were yelling "BLACK FUNKY METAL" opposed to "BLACK FUCKING METAL"

"VENOM took almost an hour to get onstage. They had roadies tuning their guitars and shit. Finally, they hit stage. They were hilarious. It was like seeing SPINAL TAP. The drummer had a guy that held an electric fan next to him and kept him high and dry.

anyway you might recognize "you're wild man, wild" from the beastie boys track "mark on the bus"

btw i love venom, i still own my 20 year old venom shirt and it kinda fits

also i thought henry ruined black flag, but hey that's another thread.

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