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Michael Alig And The Club Kids, Gg Allin On Jane Whitney Show
The famous Michael Alig and Club Kids interview on the Joan rivers show in 1990 gave a quick introduction to the freedom, chaos and art that was expressed by the Club Kids’ downtown NYC club scene. On the stage, Michael Alig was accompanied by an assortment of club kids: Leigh Bowery, famous drag performance artist from London; Ernie Glam, a frequent reporter of club night life for New York’s Village Voice periodical; James St. James, who later wrote the cult book Disco Bloodbath, a memoir about Michael Alig, the Club Kids scene and Alig’s subsequent manslaughter conviction which landed him in prison; and of course Amanda Lepore, the transsexual downtown party queen who, at this juncture in time, had not yet undergone the vast plastic surgery attempts that turned her from man to synthetically-odd transgendered woman (in fact, she looked pretty good!). While Michael Alig and the Club kids had some entertaining things to say about downtown New York’s club scene, this was before the gruesome cover-up of the murder of Michael’s drug dealer “Angel” Melendez, carried out by Michael and his friend Freez.
On Joan Rivers, when faced with awes of shock from the audience at their appearance, the club kids argued that they were actually pretty normal people. In actuality, however, they were transvestites, radical-minded, drug-ingesting artists who were rumored to be living off of trust-funds set up by their parents and were briefly faced with this accusation on another talk show a few years later, the Jane Whitney show. This interview on Jane Whitney had followed a dark encounter with shock punk rocker GG Allin, which had subsequently been his last show due to a heroin overdose about a week later. On Jane Whitney, Michael Alig and friends stated that the Club Kids and GG Allin were “like yin and yang” and of the same genre of entertainers. While GG Allin was the “self proclaimed messiah of America’s youth” who taunted parents by threatening to take their kids away from them and lead them away from normalcy, Michael Alig’s Club Kids were actually living the strayed lifestyle and using their trust funds to avoid normal lifestyles and find jobs as artists, entertainers and club promoters while expressing themselves in an extreme alternative manner, much like GG Allin.
The huge difference between GG Allin and the Club Kids was apparent in their approach. While Allin was violent, threatening to literally rape and beat up his audience, the Club Kids were offering a fun-filled lifestyle of partying and experiencing alternative art and music through glamour and fashion but, as Jane Whitney kept pointing out, involved the use of illegal recreational drugs, which Michael Alig was on during the murder and cover-up of Angel Melendez.
GG Allin was 36 when he was found overdosed on heroin after his last performance in Manhattan, New York. He had been accompanied by two 17 yaer old girls on the Jane Whitney show who claimed they worshipped him as their savior and had sex with him regularly. GG Allin was one of the most profane and offensive performers in the history of America. He defecated on stage, beat up his audience, ran around naked, vomited on and raped audience members, all in the meanest, most heinous manners — and people loved it. In contrast, the club kids would show up to clubs in drag, smiles among everyone, high on ecstacy and promote sexual encounters between the same sex, nudity and love that they hoped would go around to everyone. Both lifestyles threatened suburban soccer moms and their impressionable young teenage kids. What was most interesting was that, while Jane Whitney was trying to show how threatening these people were, she was the very one helping to introduce it to the mainstream by giving them a platform in which to speak.
Michael Alig, the Club Kids and GG Allin all affected America by spiraling out of control. When Limelight (famous New York Club Kids hot spot) was shut down for being a prime venue for drug trafficking, Michael Alig had been arrested for a drug-induced murder and GG Allin had overdosed, the party may have been over, but the lifestyles continued on and have directly affected pop culture.
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