Interview sources are noted throughout the text in the endnotes, most drawn from a series of interviews I conducted during the period I was working on this book. In addition, where I have quoted from fanzines, newspapers and magazines, these are cited in the corresponding endnotes that follow each chapter. Special thanks are due to the Dementlieu Punk Archive (http://www.dementlieu.com/users/obik/arc/blackflag/index.html), which served as an invaluable library of fanzine sources, and also harbours the most reliable gigography of Black Flag that I’ve managed to locate on the internet.
For those looking to read more upon this subject, from the bibliography I particularly recommend James Parker’s excellent Henry Rollins biography, Turned On, which was especially helpful for piecing together Henry’s pre-Flag years; Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen’s We Got The Neutron Bomb, which is an invaluable oral history on the Los Angeles punk scene; and Joe Carducci’s Enter Naomi, which is a moving and very personal overview of the SST scene, which offers a thorough insight into just exactly how the SST machine came into being, along with a strong flavour of the emotions of the times. Finally, Henry Rollins’ collected Black Flag road journals, Get In The Van, remain the last word on his tour of duty with the group, and make for riveting reading.