October Faction (album)


October Faction is an album by October Faction, the improvisational all-star punk rock band featuring Black Flag members Greg Ginn and Chuck Dukowski and Saccharine Trust guitarist Joe Baiza.
The album was recorded live in one take during a live performance at The Stone, a nightclub in San Francisco where Black Flag would regularly do their "Frisco weekend", the band's term for a monthly residency the band would do at the club when they were not touring. Black Flag's Live '84 was recorded on the same night as this album.
It is presumed that the performance took place on an evening when Black Flag were doing one of their "Frisco weekends", since then-Black Flag drummer Bill Stevenson is credited as the drummer on the album's back cover ; in the course of the performance, Tom Troccoli introduces Stevenson as substituting for "The Nazi Sex Doctor". Henry Rollins, then Black Flag's lead singer, plays percussion.
Three other members of Black Flag and SST Records' extended family are also credited as participants on the album. Sometime roadie/musician Tom Troccoli contributed vocals and unintentionally off-key harmonica. Black Flag's soundman, Dave Claassen, who is credited as "Mixing Board Meister", also mixed down the album and contributed artwork of his own to the album's back cover. Mugger, himself, received a credit of "live engineer" under his given name.
As part of Tom Trocolli's Dog, Trocolli and Ginn would later record a more organized version of "Todo Para Mi" for that band's sole, eponymous LP.

Track listing

  1. "It Don't Mean Shit"
  2. "Todo Para Mi"
  3. "You, Me"
  4. "Trail of Tears"
  5. "Ten Hour Drive"
  6. "Gimme a Quarter, Twenty-five Cents for the Bus"
  7. "Bad Acid"
Note
  • The songwriting credits are presumed to reflect that the entire band was credited with composing the music, while the individual names are those of whoever was improvising lyrics at the time.

Personnel