Gregg Ginn is een baas. Niet alleen is Gregg eigenaar van de legendarische SST records waar onder andere Dinosaur jr en Husker du hun plaatjes droptje, nee, Gregg maakte ook de dienst uit bij Black Flag!
SST Records was founded by Greg Ginn, a ham-radio enthusiast, who began at 12 years of age selling surplus WWII-era radio equipment by mailorder, out of his home in Long Beach, CA. SST stood for “solid state tuners.”
Ginn formed the band Panic in 1976. Unable to find anyone to release their songs, he took it upon himself to release the EP. The band, now dubbed Black Flag, put out the first SST release Nervous Breakdown in 1979.
SST became the home to The Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Sonic Youth, Saccharine Trust, The Dicks, Meat Puppets, Husker Du, Angst, Bad Brains, Screaming Trees, Negativland, The Descendents, Dinosaur (Jr.), Soundgarden… the list goes on. SST grew as a label, but due to inability to pay their artists, promote, or distribute as much as major labels, their roster thinned out in the latter part of the decade. Other indie labels, like Sub-Pop, which benefitted from the surge of grunge in the early 90s, far outperformed SST, which was essentially surviving off reissues of the label’s early successful bands.
