


When they returned to the East Coast that spring, Garfield jumped on stage at a New York City show and sang a song with them. native and State of Alert singer Henry Garfield, who stayed in touch with Dukowski. When the band toured the East Coast of the United States in December 1980, they met Washington, D.C. Cadena sang on the " Louie Louie" single (1981) and both sang and played guitar on the Six Pack EP (1981), but his voice suffered from the strain of constant touring and he expressed a desire to move to guitar. The band convinced him to return to finish recording the Jealous Again EP (1980), then replaced him with Dez Cadena in June 1980. He was replaced by Ron Reyes, who also recorded tracks for the band's second release but quit mid-performance in May 1980. Morris recorded basic tracks for Black Flag's second release, but left the band to form the Circle Jerks shortly before Black Flag was to embark on a summer 1979 West Coast tour. Migdol left and was replaced by Robo, a Colombian national. Panic changed their name to Black Flag in 1978, and released their debut EP Nervous Breakdown in January 1979. Spot became a recording engineer and record producer, recording the band's releases over the next eight years and working with many of the other bands on Ginn and Dukowski's independent record label SST. Würm bassist Gary McDaniel, who later adopted the pseudonym Chuck Dukowski, began sitting in with the band and soon became their permanent bassist.

Ginn's friend Glenn Lockett, also known as Spot, played bass guitar with the group during rehearsals in early 1977. The band originally called themselves Panic. By early 1977 these included a bassist known only as "Kansas" and drummer Bryan Migdol, though both would frequently skip rehearsals. To fill out the rhythm section Morris recruited some of his friends, whom he described as "scruffy beach rat types who were more interested in getting laid and finding drugs than really playing". Ginn's younger brother Raymond-known later by his pseudonym Raymond Pettibon-played bass guitar with them in early rehearsals but soon bowed out of the group to focus on his college education. Ginn formed the band with singer Keith Morris in the summer of 1976.
