Keeping up with their furious pace came
Live '84
, a cassette-only release of a standard (for them anyway)
Black Flag
gig. Opening up with an eight-and-a-half-minute
hardcore
/
punk
jazz
instrumental,
"The Process of Weeding Out"
(which came from an earlier
instrumental EP of the same title), it was abundantly clear that
were no longer just another
band; as much as they loved to kick out the jams, they also loved destroying the audience's preconceived notions of how
bands were supposed to behave. Running at 70 minutes, this tape shows
at their performing peak. [The album was released on CD in 1998.] ~ John Dougan