#B.G.K. Jonestown Aloha!

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DUTCH HARDCORE GRAB-ASSING SOME AMERICAN PUBLICITY -- CLASS OF '83.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a Vögelspin Records advert from the pages of MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL #6 (May/June 1983) for B.G.K.'s debut album "Jonestown Aloha!" and the 8-band Dutch hardcore compilation LP, "Als Je Haar Maar Goed Zit... Nr. 2."

Bands on the "Als Je Haar Maar Goed Zit... Nr. 2" comp included: B.G.K., AMSTERDAMNED, OUTLAWZ, LAST FEW, PANDEMONIUM, HAEMHORRHOIDS, ZMIV, and NULL-A.

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/1431199289879539255 (Picuki 3x).

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IF FAST, FURIOUS, AND INTENSE DUTCH HARDCORE IS WHAT YOU CRAVE -- THE ONLY B.G.K. ALBUM ON CD YOU'LL EVER NEED.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on "A Dutch Feast... The Complete Works of Balthasar Gerards Kommando," a discography/compilation album by 'Amsterdam-based '80s hardcore punk band B.G.K., compiled and released by Alternative Tentacles in 1999. The album contains forty-six tracks and is considered the definitive collection of B.G.K.'s entire recorded output.

"The Alternative Tentacles website blurts:

"Dutch punk; the glory years! Their entire discography collected, the double LP is finally back in print! These Dutch punks offered one of the most furious and intense displays of hardcore the world has ever seen!"

Damn straight. I wrote all those furious and intense songs because I'm a furious and intense guy. See, that's me pictured on the cover. OK, I was still a handsome young lad in 1984, sporting stylish European headwear. Even though I did not posses all my Super Slug Powers yet, I still got more pussy than Joan Jett backstage, while you and your friends were getting clowned by the doorman.

I'm not too wild about the title the folks at Alternative Tentacles conjured up for this project, but nobody asked me, so what can ya do. What the hell is a "Dutch Feast" anyways?

Released in the year 2000 as double album and in CD format, it is, as the title suggests, a retrospective, and contains the third official re-release of "Jonestown Aloha" (1982), "Nothing Can go Wrong" (1986), the multi-bootlegged "White Male Dumbinance" EP from 1984, all in one handy package, with a few tracks taken from compilations like the (also multi-released) "Welcome to 1984", and "P.E.A.C.E" record thrown in."

-- TONY SLUG, a.k.a., Tony Tony Leeuwenburgh, former bassist/guitarist for Amsterdam-based hardcore punk band B.G.K. (BALTHASAR GERARDS KOMMANDO), published May 28, 2009

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/2428934056752180114 & http://tonyslug.blogspot.com/2009/05/bgk-dutch-feast.html.