Black Flag – Family Man LPBlack Flag Family Man LP "Black Flag's most experimental album, Family Man features one LP side of spoken word performances from Henry Rollins and another of instrumental music from the late Flag lineup of Greg Ginn (guitar), Kira (bass), and Bill Stevenson (drums). Although occasionally chilling in its intensity, the spoken word material, much like the between song recitations of fellow Californian Jim Morrison (with whom Rollins sometimes shares a

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