NIG HEIST orig LP rare punk black flag SST

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NIG HEIST SELF TITLED DEBUT ON THERMIDOR RECORDS 1984 Very Rare, ORIGINAL PRESSING

According to wikipedia: led by Black Flag's roadie and live sound man and SST Records employee Steve "Mugger" Corbin and featuring a revolving-door roster of members of the bands who were on tour with Black Flag at the moment. The band used to open for Black Flag on tour and recorded a 7", an LP and had tracks on compilations. They were notorious for their risqué stage antics, including band members playing naked, Mugger wearing a long-haired wig and insulting the crowd. Their songs were overtly vulgar and explicit in a funny way.

The Nig-Heist was founded in 1981 in Los Angeles by Steve "Mugger" Corbin, who was a dropout who ran away from an abusive home in his early teens. He and other runaways eventually began to congegrate at the Church, a former church that was converted into a band practice space, where they became immersed in the fledging suburban hardcore scene. It was there that Mugger became acquainted withGreg Ginn and Black Flag. Ginn gave Mugger a job at his SST Electronics company. After becoming Black Flag's roadie, Mugger wanted to start his own band to bring some humor as well as antagonize the scene. He recruited members of the bands who were on tour with Black Flag for his band and usually had them play a different instrument than they normally played.

The rest of the band usually played in disguise and under fake names or behind their amps. Band members generally included Black Flag tour party members and featured such players as Greg Ginn, Chuck Dukowski, Dez Cadena, Chuck Biscuits, Bill Stevenson from the Descendents, D. Boon from the Minutemen, SPOT, Dave "Davo" Classen (Black Flag's soundman), SST hanger-ons Merrill Ward from Overkill and Tom Troccoli from Tom Trocolli's Dog, Kira Roessler as well as Ian MacKaye from Minor Threat.Because their songs were so sexist, the Nig-Heist didn't want to have a girl in the band so, when Kira Roessler played bass in the band, she was hidden behind a curtain on stage and another guy in disguise took the bass in front and pretended to play.

The Nig-Heist's songs always revolved around sex, and dealt with their topic in purposely explicit and immature ways. Predictably, this angered most not in on the joke and the biggest cheers for the Nig-Heist came when they announced they were playing their last song, if they got a chance to do so. The band often had the plug pulled on them by club managers or were attacked by outraged audience members If they weren't attacked, Mugger often got the last laugh by leaving stage, taking off his wig and moving through the audience, unnoticed. They made headlines in Denver in April 1984 when Mugger and Trocolli were arrested for lewd behavior onstage at The Rainbow Music Hall after the club owner was scandalised by their obscenity. They were jailed for indecent exposure and Greg Ginn bailed them out later. 

In 1983, the Joe Carducci's Thermidor Records released a one song Nig-Heist 7" called Walking Down the Street with Raymond Pettibon artwork and, a year later, released the group's self titled LP. Also in 1984, the Nig-Heist did their most extensive tour, opening for Black Flag and the Meat Puppets. By then, Mugger had also taken on an important role in running SST Records, splitting control of the label with Ginn, Dukowski, and co-owner Joe Carducci. Despite Mugger's position at the label, no Nig-Heist material was ever released on SST.[11][12]

After 1984, Mugger left the road crew to concentrate on SST and that was the end of The Nig-Heist. 

[edit]Members

• Steve "Mugger" Corbin - Lead Vocals
• Bill Stevenson - Guitar
• David "Davo" Classen - Drums
• Tom Trocolli - Bass

• SPOT - Drums
• Chuck Biscuits - Drums
• Merrill Ward - Guitar
• Dez Cadena - Drums
• Ian MacKaye - Bass
• Kira Roessler - Bass [8]
• Greg Ginn - Guitar
• Jack Brewer - Vocals
• d. Boon - Roadie

• Most of my records have been sitting on a shelf for 25+ years, in plastic protective sleeves, played very little ( mostly to record them- it was the 80's). Friends could look but not touch! I am selling off industrial/PUNK LP's this go round, see my other listings for like items and combined shipping possibilities.

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Vinyl Condition: Near Mint!

Sleeve Condition: VG+ PROMO corner cut, some aging on inner sleeve

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