Several days ago, Black Flag co-founder Greg Ginn filed a lawsuit against Henry Rollins and the members of FLAG for using the Black Flag trademark.
Keith Morris — Black Flag’s original vocalist (and current vocalist for FLAG) — was interviewed yesterday by Melissa Fossum of Phoenix NewTimes, and he addressed the situation publicly for the first time:
I’m in a new situation because I’ve never been sued. Basically, the bottom line is we’re doing what we feel is right, and I can’t really get into details. I’m being bombarded on Facebook, and right now I can’t respond because it’s just now getting started. I was served yesterday [Wednesday], this thing that looks like it wants to be maybe two and a half movie scripts. A script normally is about 120 pages. I’m not legal savvy, so I’m just kind of holding it in my hands. I’m not really reading all of it, but we’re just going about our business.
We’ve done nothing wrong. Every step of the way, we’ve all talked to each other–“we’re going to do this,” or “we’re not going to do that”–we know what he is capable of doing and we’re not scared, we’re not shaking in our shoes, we’re not going to be bullied. We’ll just proceed forward. We live our lives, and whatever the outcome is, we’re good guys, we’ve done nothing wrong, so we don’t really have to worry about anything.
We are going to continue forward. We’re going to continue forward until somebody that we deal with on a day to day basis tells us we can’t do it.
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Click here to read the suit. Or, if you’d rather just listen to some tunes, click here for the top 10 Black Flag songs.