Nervous Breakdown

The recording was financed by Greg Ginn with proceeds he had earned from his mail-order ham radio electronics business, SST Electronics^[1]. Through Spot, then an apprentice engineer whom Ginn had already known from living in Hermosa Beach, California, the band found Media Art, a studio that had recently completed construction.^[2]

The recording was originally supposed to come out on Bomp! Records, but the band felt that the label was taking too long to put the record out. Eventually the band took the master rights back, and Ginn put some more earnings from his ham radio business, located a pressing plant in the phone book, and co-founded SST Records with Black Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski, borrowing the label's name for his new label.<ref name="band" />

It is commonly misconstrued that Spot was the producer and engineer of record for Nervous Breakdown. In his sleeve notes for the 1982 outtakes anthology Everything Went Black, Spot pointed out that as an apprentice engineer, his involvement in the sessions was limited to setting up microphones during the tracking sessions, and doing rough mixes for the band to hear.<ref name="ewb" />

The initial pressing of Nervous Breakdown was 300 copies. Black Flag were able to use the record as "a badge of legitimacy" (according to Dukowski) to begin getting live gigs in the Los Angeles area.<ref name="ewb" />

Release History

The EP is still in print both in its original form (a 7" vinyl EP), as a 5" CD single, and as part of the anthology The First Four Years. It was also available at times as a 3" CD single, a 10" colored vinyl EP, and as part of the various artists compilation of SST singles, The 7 Inch Wonders Of The World.

Track listing

All songs by Ginn except "Wasted" by Ginn/Morris

"Nervous Breakdown" – 2:07
"Fix Me" – 0:55
"I've Had It" – 1:20
"Wasted" – 0:51

Personnel

Keith Morris - vocals
Greg Ginn - guitar
Chuck Dukowski - bass
Brian Migdol - drums
David Tarling - co-producer, engineer
Spot - engineer, mixer
Raymond Pettibon - artwork

References and footnotes

1. ^ Michael Azzerad, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Little Brown, 2001
2. ^ Spot with Chuck Dukowski, Liner notes of Everything Went Black, SST Records, 1983

• • [ e] Blackflag
Guitar: Greg Ginn
Vocals: Keith Morris \| Chavo Pederast \| Dez Cadena \| Henry Rollins
Bass: Raymond Pettibon \| Spot \| Chuck Dukowski \| Kira Roessler \| C'el Revuelta
Drums: David Horvitz \| Brian Migdol \| ROBO \| Emil Johnson \| Chuck Biscuits \| Bill Stevenson \| Anthony Martinez
Discography
Albums: Damaged \| My War \| Family Man \| Slip It In \| Loose Nut \| In My Head
Extended plays: Nervous Breakdown \| Jealous Again \| Six Pack \| TV Party \| The Process of Weeding Out \| Minuteflag \| I Can See You
Live: Live '84 \| Who's Got the 10? \| Annihilate This Week
Other releases: Everything Went Black \| The First Four Years \| Wasted...Again \| The Complete 1982 Demos Plus More \|
Related articles
Rollins Band \| Dos \| State of Alert \| Gone \| SST Records \| October Faction \| Joe Cole

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