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This index will attempt to gather show dates and flyers for all appearances from 1979 to mid-1981 when Henry Rollins began with the band.
1979
Date: January 27, 1979
Venue: Moose Lodge Hall
Location: Redondo Beach, CA
Notes: with Alleycats, Rhino 39; first advertised show
Date: February 17, 1979
Venue: Teen Post
Location: San Pedro, CA
Notes: with Alleycats, Descendents, Plugz, Reactionaries (later, Minutemen), Last
Date: June 11, 1979
Venue: Bla Bla Café
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: Black Flag’s first club gig; they were also booked for the 19th, but the owner refused to let them play.
Date: June 18, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with The Last
Date: June 22 and 29, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Fear, Controllers, Plugz, X
Date: June 29, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Fear, Controllers, Plugz, X
Date: July 13, 1979
Venue: The Masque
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with UXA, Smart Pills, Black Hearts
Date: July 22, 1979
Venue: Polliwog Park
Location: Manhattan Beach, CA
Notes: with Eddie and the Subtitles, Tourists, Big Wow
Date: July 30, 1979
Venue: The Church
Location: Hermosa Beach, CA
Notes: with Last, Urinals, Gears, Tourists
Date: August 4, 1979
Venue: King’s Palace
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Mau Maus, Smart Pills, UXA
Date: August 11, 1979
Venue: Club 88
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with with Middle Class, Eddie and the Subtitles
Date: August 12, 1979
Venue: The Masque
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Mau Maus, UXA, Smart Pills, Black Hearts; last show at The Masque: show was shut down, but Black Flag did play.
Date: August 12, 1979
Venue: King’s Palace,
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: Mau Maus, Fear & Satintones
Date: August 27, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Tourists; Ron Reyes plays drums w/Tourists because their drummer is MIA.
Date: September 1, 1979
Venue: Mars Studio
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Plugz, Silencers, Gears; show was shut down
Date: September 2, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with UXA, Red Cross
Date: September 7, 1979
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens,
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: September 12, 1979
Venue: Gazzarri’s
Location: West Hollywood, CA
Date: September 16, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Mau Maus, DOA & Terminals
Date: September 19, 1979
Venue: King’s Palace
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Red Cross, Gears, Mau Maus, Terminals
Date: September 22, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Germs, Middle Class
Date: September 25, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: Flyboys, Silencers; David Bowie in the audience (!?)
Date: September 27, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with UXA, Red Cross
Date: October 9, 1979
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: Western Front Festival 1979, with (Impatient) Youth, Feederz
Date: October 10, 1979
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: Western Front Festival 1979, with Dead Kennedys, Feederz
Date: October 25, 1979
Venue: Pippin’s
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Notes: with Flyboys, F-15’s, Red Cross
Date: October 26, 1979
Venue: King’s Palace
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Terminals, Audio Vidiots
Date: October 31, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Fear, Germs, Chinas Comidas
Date: November 1, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Mau Maus, Red Cross, Urinals, Spittin’ Teeth; two flyers for this show
Date: November 1, 1979
Venue: Anti-Club
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Angry Samoans, Overman, Jonnies
Date: November 3, 1979
Venue: The Church
Location: Hermosa Beach, CA
Notes: with Skrews
Date: November 23, 1979
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Last, Fear, Urinals
Date: December 1, 1979
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with Mutants, Madness
Date: December 16, 1979
Venue: Blackie’s
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: Ron Reyes debuts as vocalist
Date: December 21, 1979
Venue: Whisky A Go Go
Location: West Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Plugz; Keith and Greg (Hetson) announce plans for a new band.
1980
Date: January 23, 1980
Venue: The Great Gatsby
Location: Redondo Beach, CA
Notes: with The Flyboys
Date: January 25, 1980
Venue: Blackie’s
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Urinals, the Fast
Date: January 27, 1980
Venue: Cuckoo’s Nest
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Notes: with Alleycats, Middle Class
Date: January 29, 1980
Venue: The Great Gatsby
Location: Redondo Beach, CA
Notes: with Germs, Eddie & The Subtitles, Descendents
Date: January 30, 1980
Venue: Hong Kong Cafe
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Nobody’s Overman, Chiefs, Tracks, 45s
Date: February 1, 1980
Venue: The Temple
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with Roy Loney, Phantom Movers, Eye Protection
Date: February 8-9, 1980
Venue: Smilin’ Buddha
Location: Vancouver, BC
Notes: with Rabid, Blackheads
Date: February 15-16, 1980
Venue: Bahama’s Underground
Location: Seattle, WA
Notes: with Exquisite Corpse, Chinas Comidas; Kyle Nixon of Solger joins them to sing “Nervous Breakdown” on the 16th
Date: February 19, 1980
Venue: Slick Willie’s
Location: Sacramento, CA
Notes: with Contractions
Date: February 27, 1980
Venue: Sproul-Plaza
Location: Berkeley, CA
Date: March 1, 1980
Venue: North Park Lions Club
Location: San Diego, CA
Notes: with The Last, The Urinals
Date: March 3, 1980
Venue: Civic Center
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Notes: with Social Dismay, Red Cross, Adolescents, Minutemen
Date: March 5, 1980
Venue: The Great Gatsby
Location: Redondo Beach, CA
Notes: with Fear, Eddie & The Subtitles, Spitting Teeth
Date: March 6-7, 1980
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: March 16, 1980
Venue: Cuckoo’s Nest
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Notes: with Arthur J, The Goldcups
Date: March 29, 1980
Venue: Kings Palace
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Circle Jerks, The Germs, Cheifs, The Lurchers
Date: April 2, 1980
Venue: The Roxy
Location: San Diego, CA
Notes: with Last
Date: April 11, 1980
Venue: The Fleetwood
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Chiefs, Skrewz, Vicious Circle, Descendents
Date: April 12, 1980
Venue: Berkeley Square
Location: Berkeley, CA
Notes: with No Sisters, VIPs
Date: April 15, 1980
Venue: Berkeley Square
Location: Berkeley, CA
Notes: with Secret Service
Date: April 17-19, 1980
Venue: Smilin’ Buddha
Location: Vancouver, BC
Notes: with Braineaters, Rolling Sex Beatles, Dish Rags, Bludgeoned Pigs
Date: April 21, 1980
Venue: Long Goodbye
Location: Portland, OR
Date: May 2, 1980
Venue: Washington Hall
Location: Seattle, WA
Notes: with Subhumans, Vains
Date: May 23, 1980
Venue: The Fleetwood
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Red Cross, Screws, Agent Orange, China White, Disposals; Ron Reyes walks off stage leaving random audience members to fill in, he returns later in the gig only to quit again, this time for good
Date: June 6, 1980
Venue: The Fleetwood
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Subhumans, Red Cross, Screws, Angry Samoans, Der Tab; Keith Morris on vocals. [Concert brought forward from June 10]
Date: June 9, 1980
Venue: Vanguard Gallery
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Middle Class, Subhumans, The Crowd, The Adolescents; the show was put on by Black Flag
Date: June 10, 1980
Venue: The Fleetwood
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: CANCELLED; brought forward to June 6
Date: June 27, 1980
Venue: The Station
Location: Industry, CA
Notes: with Red Cross, Descendents
Date: August 15, 1980
Venue: Urban Noize
Location: Portland, OR
Notes: with Solger, Cleavers
Date: August 16, 1980
Venue: Showbox Theatre
Location: Seattle, WA
Notes: with Solger, Shock Treatment; Fartz form at the afterparty
Date: August 17, 1980
Venue: J’s Delux
Location: Portland, OR
Notes: with Insex, Tunnel Canary
Date: September 2, 1980
Venue: Capones
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Saccharine Trust, Minutemen
Date: September 6, 1980
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Notes: with DOA
Date: September 7, 1980
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: September 19, 1980
Venue: Hideaway
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Geza X, Circle Jerks, Stains, Descendents, Mad Society
Date: October 3, 1980
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with The Lewd
Date: October 4, 1980
Venue: North Park Lions Club
Location: San Diego, CA
Notes: with Screws, Descendents, Sacharine Trust
Date: October 8, 1980
Venue: The Whisky
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with DOA
Date: October 14, 1980
Venue: Cuckoo’s Nest
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Notes: with The Hated, War Criminals
Date: October 19, 1980
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with The Enemy, Social Unrest, Cosmetics
Date: October 22, 1980
Venue: The Stone
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with Stiff Little Fingers, The Tenants
Date: October 23, 1980
Venue: Keystone
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Notes: with Stiff Little Fingers, The Tenants
Date: October 24, 1980
Venue: Baces Hall
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with UXA, Adolescents & Screws
Date: October 31, 1980
Venue: Rat’s Palace
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with No Alternative, Impatient Youth, Nubs
Date: November 1, 1980
Venue: Urban Noize
Location: Portland, OR
Date: November 1, 1980
Venue: Baces Hall
Location: San Diego, CA
Notes: with UXA, Adolescents, Skrewz
Date: November 3-5, 1980
Venue: Gary Taylor’s Rock Room
Location: Vancouver, BC
Notes: with The Dickies
Date: November 7, 1980
Venue: Urban Noize
Location: Portland, OR
Date: November 18, 1980
Venue: Starwood
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Eddie and the Subtitles, Minutemen
Date: November 22, 1980
Venue: Baces Hall
Location: San Diego, CA
Notes: ‘JFK Memorial Show’; with Stains, Violent Children, No Alternative, Mau Maus, Castration Squad
Date: November 28, 1980
Venue: Verne Auditorium
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Circle Jerks, Mad Society, Plugz
Date: November 30, 1980
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Notes: CANCELLED – original start date for the Creepy Crawl tour, but this show was cancelled well in advance
Date: December 1, 1980
Venue: Night Train
Location: Tucson, AZ
Date: December 2, 1980
Venue: Zero’s
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Date: December 3, 1980
Venue: Hot Club
Location: Dallas, TX
Date: December 4, 1980
Venue: Raul’s
Location: Austin, TX
Notes: with Recipients
Date: December 5-6, 1980
Venue: The Island
Location: Houston, TX
Notes: with Stains
Date: December 7, 1980
Venue: Jimmy’s
Location: New Orleans, LA
Date: December 8, 1980
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Date: December 12-13, 1980
Venue: Stages
Location: Chicago, IL
Notes: with Effigies; 13th was CANCELLED
Date: December 13, 1980
Venue: Oz
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: December 14 1980
Venue: Starship
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Notes: may have been cancelled?
Date: December 15, 1980
Location: Madison, WI
Notes: CANCELLED – well in advance due to fears of “punk violence”
Date: December 16, 1980
Venue: Sugis
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Notes: probably cancelled
Date: December 18, 1980
Venue: Rock Lounge
Location: New York City, NY
Notes: CANCELLED
Date: December 19, 1980
Location: Boston, MA
Notes: CANCELLED
Date: December 20, 1980
Location: Boston, MA
Notes: CANCELLED – show moved to (or from?) the 19th
Date: December 21, 1980
Location: Washington, DC
Notes: CANCELLED
Date: December 30, 1980
Venue: Cuckoo’s Nest
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Date: December 31, 1980
Venue: 10th Street Hall
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with Impatient Youth, Two Tones, Toiling Midgets
1981
Date: January 6-7, 1981
Venue: Starwood
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Adolescents, China White, Middle Class (on the 6th, Social Distortion (on the 7th
Date: January 18, 1981
Venue: Urban Noise
Location: Portland, OR
Notes: with Toxic Shock
Date: January 22, 1981
Venue: Polish Hall
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Subhumans, China White, Mad Society, The Runns, Assassins; Black Flag replaced Circle Jerks who cancelled at the last minute; there was a riot
Date: January 23, 1981
Venue: North Park Lions Club
Location: San Diego, CA
Notes: with Minutemen, Cheifs
Date: January 28, 1981
Venue: Cuckoo’s Nest
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Notes: postponed until March 3rd
Date: February 11, 1981
Venue: Stardust Ballroom
Location: Hollywood, CA
Notes: with Fear, Circle Jerks, China White, Minutemen
Date: February 13, 1981
Venue: The Laundromat
Location: Vancouver, BC
Notes: with DOA, No Alternative, 7 Seconds, Bludgeoned Pigs
Date: February 14, 1981
Venue: Danceland USA
Location: Seattle, WA
Notes: with No Alternative. Kyle Nixon (ex-Solger joined them on “Louie Louie”
Date: February 20, 1981
Venue: Barrington Hall
Location: Berkeley, CA
Notes: with Flipper, Sick Pleasure
Date: February 27-28, 1981
Venue: Mabuhay Gardens
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with Eddie, The Subtitles, Stains, TSOL (on the 27th); Adolescents, Minutemen, China White (on the 28th)
Date: March 1, 1981
Venue: Vex
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notes: with Minutemen, Girl Scouts, Deprogrammer; benefit for Greg Ginn’s legal defense
Date: March 3, 1981
Venue: Cuckoo’s Nest
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Notes: CANCELLED, rescheduled from January 28th, but cancelled again due to the Cuckoo’s Nest licence being revoked
Date: March 4, 1981
Venue: Tumbleweeds
Location: Tucson, AZ
Date: March 6, 1981
Venue: Raul’s
Location: Austin, TX
Notes: with Big Boys, Raidy, Killerwattz
Date: March 7, 1981
Venue: The Island
Location: Houston, TX
Notes: with Devices, Derailers
Date: March 8, 1981
Venue: Jimmie’s
Location: New Orleans, LA
Date: March 14, 1981
Venue: Peppermint Lounge
Location: New York City, NY
Date: March 16, 1981
Venue: Decade
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Date: March 17, 1981
Venue: 9:30 Club
Location: Washington, DC
Notes: with Minor Threat, Youth Brigade
Date: March 21, 1981
Venue: Rat
Location: Boston, MA
Date: March 22 1981
Venue: Club Doo-Bee
Location: Lansing, MI
Notes: with Fix, Necros
Date: March 23, 1981
Venue: The Space Place
Location: Chicago, IL
Notes: with Effigies, Strike Under, Naked Raygun. The show was originally scheduled for Oz, but moved to The Space Place. The afterparty was at Oz though, where the band saw Husker Du for the first time
Date: March 28, 1981
Venue: Old Waldorf
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with Flipper, Adolescents
Date: April 25, 1981
Venue: 10th Street Hall
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with Flipper, Minutemen, Stains
Date: May 15, 1981
Venue: Belmont Ballroom
Location: Fresno, CA
Notes: with Nazi Bitch Und Der Jude, Dog Meat, 666
Date: May 17, 1981
Venue: H.O.L.M.S Hall
Location: San Jose, CA
Notes: with The Lewd, Los Olvidados, The Ghouls, Happy Death; SHUT DOWN before Black Flag could play
Date: May 21, 1981
Venue: ?
Location: Tampa, FL
Date: June 12, 1981
Venue: 10th Street Hall
Location: San Francisco, CA
Notes: with No Alternative, Saccharine Trust, 7 Seconds
Date: June 19, 1981
Venue: Civic Auditorium
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Notes: with Adolescents, DOA, Minutemen
Date: June 26, 1981
Venue: The Showplace
Location: Dover, NJ
Date: June 27, 1981
Venue: Irving Plaza
Location: New York City, NY
Notes: with Bad Brains, UXA; at the afterparty held at A7, Henry Rollins sings with Black Flag
Date: July 3, 1981
Venue: Simons
Location: Pawtucket, RI
Date: July 4, 1981
Venue: Electric Banana
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Notes: with Prototype, The Five, ICU, Blue Collar, Whereabouts, Rumhounds
Date: July 8, 1981
Venue: City Gardens
Location: Trenton, NJ
Date: July 9, 1981
Venue: The Mistake
Location: Cleveland, OH
Date: July 10, 1981
Venue: Starlite Ballroom
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Notes: with SOA, Autistic Reactions; this was SOA’s final show, the show degenerates into a riot
Date: July 11-12, 1981
Venue: The Paradise
Location: Boston, MA
Date: July 12, 1981
Venue: Mill Hill Club
Location: Cape Cod, MA
Notes: with The Freeze
Date: July 13, 1981
Venue: Agora
Location: New Haven, CT
Date: July 14, 1981
Venue: Bookies
Location: Detroit, MI
Notes: with Necros; Henry meets up with Black Flagand for the rest of the tour he’s a roadie and comes out to sing the encores as a way of learning the tunes
Date: July 15, 1981
Venue: Tut’s
Location: Chicago, IL with Effigies, DV8
Date: July 16, 1981
Venue: Merlin’s
Location: Madison, WI
Date: July 17, 1981
Venue: Starship
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Notes: with Stellas
Date: July 18, 1981
Venue: Sam’s
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Notes: with The Replacements
Date: July 20, 1981
Venue: Indian Center
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Date: July 25, 1981
Venue: Cuckoo’s Nest
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Notes: with Stains
Date: July ?, 1981
Venue: Goofy’s Upper Deck
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Date: July 28, 1981
Venue: Destinations
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Date: July 29-30, 1981
Venue: Bongo Syllys
Location: Tulsa, OK
Date: July 31, 1981
Venue: Duke’s
Location: Austin, TX
Notes: with The Stains
Date: August 2, 1981
Venue: The Agora
Location: Houston, TX
Date: August 3, 1981
Venue: Baton
Location: Rouge, LA
Date: August 8, 1981
Venue: The Agora
Location: Atlanta, GA
Date: August 10, 1981
Venue: The Agora
Location: Tampa, FL
Date: August 13, 1981
Venue: The 9:30 Club
Location: Washington DC
Date: August 14, 1981
Venue: City Gardens
Location: Trenton, NJ
Date: August 15, 1981
Venue: East Side Club
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: August 20, 1981
Venue: Rahars
Location: Northampton, MA
Date: August 21, 1981
Venue: Cuckoo’s Nest
Location: Costa Mesa, CA
Notes: with Wasted Youth, Circle One (at 3pm show); with Saccharine Trust, Overkill (at 9pm show); Henry’s first gig
