{"id":1046,"date":"2008-11-04T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T17:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/11\/the-death-of-sst\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T10:41:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T17:41:48","slug":"the-death-of-sst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/04\/the-death-of-sst\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of SST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2008\/nov\/03\/label-love-sst\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 2.2em; line-height: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; width: 460px; border-color: #d1008b; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Label of love: SST<\/h1>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #666666; font-family: arial; line-height: 19px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">From an inauspicious beginning selling spare radio parts, SST went on to establish the US indie underground of the 80s. But its 30th anniversary earlier this year went uncelebrated &#8211; even by its own bands<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<ul style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px\">\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/owenadams\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Owen Adams}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\">Owen Adams<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; display: inline; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"publication\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\">guardian.co.uk<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; display: inline; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"date\">Monday November 03 2008 14.07 GMT<span style=\"border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Music\/Pix\/pictures\/2008\/11\/03\/Blackflag276.jpg\" height=\"270\" width=\"450\" alt=\"Black Flag with Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: #666666; margin-bottom: 13px; font-size: 0.857em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px\" class=\"caption\">American hardcore &#8230; Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn, of SST stalwarts Black Flag in 1982. Photograph: Frank Mullen\/Wireimage<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">With a roster that included Sonic Youth, H\u00fcsker D\u00fc, Dinosaur Jr, Soundgarden and Meat Puppets, SST was the most individualistic US indie label of the 80s. But few, if any, of its alumni celebrated its 30th birthday earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">SST&#8217;s fall from grace is a similar sad story to Alternative Tentacles and its founder Jello Biafra, that is, a DIY-punk utopian dream turned sour by money wrangles and ego wars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">From its ever-shifting base on the fringes of Los Angeles, SST embraced everything from pop-punk to prog-metal, art-noise and proto-grunge, until it all went wrong in the early 90s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">The shit \u2013 or more precisely, U2 \u2013 first hit the fan in 1991, when SST faced a huge bill from Island Records for Negativland&#8217;s parody of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z6gPSSYxex0&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">I Still Haven&#8217;t Found What I&#8217;m Looking For<\/a>. SST&#8217;s ensuing battle with Negativland saw the dominos fall one by one: Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and Meat Puppets all reclaimed their back catalogues through taking legal action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">No one from SST&#8217;s glory days seems to have a good word to say about founder\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Ginn\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Greg Ginn<\/a>, who expanded his radio parts operation Solid State Tuners in 1978 so he could put out a record, Nervous Breakdown, by his band Black Flag. Turning on its head the preconception that making a record was an unattainable holy grail, he found a pressing plant in the phonebook and used his brother\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.2ndthought.net\/raymondpettibon\/gallery.htm\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Raymond Pettibon&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0acerbic comic strip artwork for the cover.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2008\/nov\/03\/label-love-sst\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian UK Label of love: SST From an inauspicious beginning selling spare radio parts, SST went on to establish the US indie underground of the 80s. But its 30th anniversary earlier this year went uncelebrated &#8211; even by its own bands Owen Adams guardian.co.uk,\u00a0 Monday November 03 2008 14.07 GMT\u00a0 American hardcore &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}