This gets universally slagged but, in this reporter's opinion, was never given it's due out of context of the MM and BF animals. Now that those animals are dead, can we take a minute to reassess?
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From the Wikipedia (Wiki entry edited by me to omit the anachronistic phrase "jam band"): Minuteflag was a collaboration between members of the American punk bands Black Flag and the Minutemen. Their only release, an EP, consists almost entirely of instrumentals with the exception of "Fetch The Water" which features D. Boon on lead vocals.
It took place in March 1985, while Black Flag was in the process of writing and recording Loose Nut at Total Access Studio in Redondo Beach, CA; the Minutemen had just completed their Project Mersh 12" EP at the same studio the month before. The members involved initially agreed that the material recorded during the Minuteflag sessions would not be released until at least one of the bands had disbanded. The wait would prove to be sadly short; a 12" EP on SST Records as SST 050 came out over a year afterward, by which time The Minutemen had disbanded after the car crash death of guitarist/vocalist D. Boon; Black Flag themselves would split up later in 1986. Despite the demand for the album amongst hardcore fans of both bands, the EP has yet to be rereleased on CD by SST.
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