In attempt to further their agenda of what it meant to be punk SST big guns and cohorts Black Flag and the Minutemen got together and made a baby, kinda. For well read Black Flag fans, it should be no secret that Greg Ginn was a huge fan of the Greatful Dead. It should also be no surprise that the Minutemen were into jazz and other experimental stuff. While most bands on SST pushed the envelope in a scene that slowly became less accepting and more militant (dare I say 'cookie cutter'), the Flag and Pedro's finest seem to take it as far as they could. The MinuteFlag EP can be describe as a celebration of the two bands' love for the extreme, the obscure, and their friendship. I couldn't imagine any other bands of the time collaborating like this. I think this musical outcry is what Black Flag was thinking all along the Minutemen were probably going to do anyway (think of it almost as a precursor to Watt and Kira's Dos). If any album from SSt's 80s catalogue could turn punks on their heads (as they often would) this is a tour de force.
Fetch The Water
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