Science & Tech Quote by GG Allin

Violence is doing double duty here: as metaphor, and as mission statement. GG Allin doesn’t just describe performance as intense; he frames it as an attack with intent to injure. The inversion is the point. In rock mythology the audience is the judge, the band the supplicant. Allin flips the power dynamic and dares you to call it art anyway.

The line’s cleverness is in its mechanics. “Mind” as machine gun suggests speed, spray, and indifference to precision - ideas fired faster than they can be responsibly aimed. Then he makes the body “the bullets,” collapsing thought and flesh into one disposable ammunition. That’s not macho posturing so much as a promise of self-harm as spectacle: the performer isn’t wielding violence from a safe distance; he is the thing being spent. It’s a grimly efficient summary of his brand of transgression, where blood, bodily risk, and breakdown were staged as authenticity tests.

Context matters: Allin’s notoriety was forged in a punk ecosystem already flirting with provocation, but he pushed it into outright antagonism. The “target” isn’t just hecklers; it’s the complacency of a scene that sells rebellion as a product. By casting the crowd as something to be hit, he exposes the uncomfortable bargain of live music: audiences pay to feel something real, then act shocked when “real” isn’t polite.

There’s also an ugly honesty in the phrasing. A target is impersonal. That’s the subtext: if everyone is a target, no one is a person, including him.