Damaged / Jealous Again

The most important hardcore album ever made! Black Flag had made at least two abandoned attempts to record a full-length album since the release of its first EP “Nervous Breakdown”, with singers Keith Morris, Ron Reyes, and Dez Cadena. Some of the Reyes sessions became the “Jealous Again” EP, while selections from two of many Cadena sessions became the “Six Pack” and “Louie Louie” singles. Other session outtakes later comprised the “Everything Went Black” double album (also for sale here at Gram in the legendary first edition).

At the time of the recording, Cadena had moved to rhythm guitar and twenty-year-old Henry Rollins had become the band’s new lead singer weeks before the sessions occurred. The album was recorded at Unicorn Studios, on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. The band was living and rehearsing in another part of the building that housed Unicorn Studios prior to the sessions. Drummer Robo was wearing bracelets on his left wrist that rattled whenever he hit his snare drum, and it became part of the drum sound.

This is the rare first edition when the album was pressed to CD in 1987, which also includes the entire “Jealous Again” EP. All subsequent versions contain the album only. However, “Damaged” has gone out of print on all formats since the late 1990’s.