Minuteflag

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Minuteflag
Minuteflag cover
EP by Black Flag
Released 1986
Recorded 3/3/1985
Genre Alternative, Punk
Length 14:32
Label SST
Producer Greg Ginn
Professional reviews
Black Flag chronology
Who's Got the 10½?
(1986)
Minuteflag
(1986)
Annihilate This Week
(1987)
The Minutemen chronology
3-Way Tie (For Last)
(1985)
Minuteflag
(1986)
Ballot Result
(1987)

Minuteflag was an experimental jam band collaboration between members of the bands Black Flag and The Minutemen. Their only release, an EP, consists almost entirely of instrumentals with the exception of "Fetch The Water" which features D. Boon on lead vocals. It took place in March 1985, while Black Flag was in the process of writing and recording Loose Nut at Total Access Studio in Redondo Beach, CA; the Minutemen had just completed their Project Mersh 12" EP at the same studio the month before. The members involved initially agreed that the material recorded during the Minuteflag sessions would not be released until at least one of the bands had disbanded. The wait would prove to be sadly short; a 12" EP on SST Records as SST 050 came out over a year afterward, by which time The Minutemen had disbanded after the car crash death of guitarist/vocalist D. Boon; Black Flag themselves would split up later in 1986. Despite the demand for the album amongst hardcore fans of both bands, the EP has yet to be rereleased on CD by SST.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Fetch the Water" - 3:49
  2. "Power Failure" - 3:43
  3. "Friends" - 5:12
  4. "Candy Rush" - 1:49

[edit] Personnel