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
Black Flag instrumental EP of the same title), it was abundantly clear that
Black Flag were no longer just another punk band; as much as they loved to kick out the jams, they also loved destroying the audience's preconceived notions of how punk bands were supposed to behave. Running at 70 minutes, this tape shows
Black Flag at their performing peak. [The album was released on CD in 1998.] ~ John Dougan