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Black Flag: My War

Roy Trakin, Creem, July 1984

WHAT HAPPENS to hardcore bands when they get old? They turn into Hawkwinds, that's what. Redondo Beach's finest have let their skinheads grow out and slowed down from amphetamine blurs to lysergic lethargy.

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