In that time, he lived with the band in the run-down, graffiti-splattered Baptist church they called home, he recorded angry vocals for the group’s 1980 EP Jealous Again and its 1982 comp Everything Went Black and he sang three Black Flag songs so incoherently in the 1981 punk doc The Decline of Western Civilization that they required subtitles. For five months of Black Flag’s decade or so run, its vocalist was Ron Reyes. He oversaw the band’s label, helped discover another one of its vocalists, Henry Rollins, and led his band in sweaty, confrontational concerts and through more than one battle royale with the L.A.P.D. Throughout their initial run as L.A.’s resident punk terrorists, Ginn served as its sole original member, its lifeline. It didn’t work out the way they’d planned. Last year, guitarist and founding member Greg Ginn reactivated the legendary hardcore group with one of its former lead singers, Ron Reyes.
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