Band Name: Nig-Heist
Music Album: Walking Down The Street
Album Release Date: November 1982
Music Genre: Punk Rock
Record Label: Thermidor
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 1 Tracks Vinyl Album 7"
Band History compiled by Patrick
The Nig-Heist were perhaps one of the most explicit and vile musical acts to ever exist. The band's main and only continuous member was one Steve Corbin, better known as Black Flag's legendary roadie Mugger. Mugger was a dropout who ran away from an abusive home in his early teens. Mugger and many other runaways eventually began to congegrate at the Church, a former church that was converted into a band practice space, where they became immersed in the fledging suburban hardcore scene. It was there that Mugger became acquainted with Greg Ginn and Black Flag. Ginn put Mugger to work at his SST Electronics company. Eventually, not only did Mugger become Black Flag's trusted roadie, but he also started his own band, the Nig-Heist.
Despite coming from the scene, Mugger, like the rest of the Black Flag crew, grew disenchanted with a scene that was quickly becoming close-minded and clichéd and sought to bring some humor to, as well as antagonize, the scene. Not surprisingly, many didn't get, or didn't care for the joke. On stage, the bald Mugger would don a long-haired wig (and often nothing more) and taunt the postcard punks and skinheads in the audience who didn't want to see any "long-haired faggot" on stage. Mugger often baited the crowd with statements like "I know your kind, you want to overthrow the government" and "if you think I'm a faggot, why don't you come up here and let me buttfuck you" (...)
| A | Walking Down The Street | 2:10 |
©1982 SST Music (BMI)
This Nig-Heist is Mugger, Spot & Terry
B-side of record has etched credits but no grooves.
At least 3 different die-cut Thermidor company sleeves exist with different grey patterns on both sides, with the catalog number "10" handwritten in a white box on the front. The disks are identical, and all appear to be original.
(Alternating fronts and back examples of each identified sleeve appear in images.)
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