Editing Jealous Again (section)

==History==
Although eventually released as a 12" 45 RPM extended-play, ''Jealous Again'' was initially intended to be Black Flag's first full-length album.<ref name="everything">Spot with Chuck Dukowski, liner notes to ''Everything Went Black'', SST Records, 1982</ref>

Spurred on by the reception to their first release, the EP ''[[Nervous Breakdown (EP)|Nervous Breakdown]]'', Black Flag entered the studio in late 1979 with new drummer [[Robo (musician)|Robo]] and original singer [[Keith Morris]] to begin recording their first LP.<ref name="band">Michael Azzerad, ''Our Band Could Be Your Life'', Little Brown, 2001</ref>  Basic tracks for all of the songs were cut live in the studio with Morris singing temporary vocal parts.  Almost without warning, however, according to bassist [[Chuck Dukowski]], Morris "smashed his records and guitar and walked out screaming for a week," quitting the band and refusing to complete the album.<ref name="everything" />

The band then recruited former [[Redd Kross]] member [[Ron Reyes]], (credited on the record as "Chavo Pederast" after a falling out with the band) to be their new vocalist; however, guitarist and band leader [[Greg Ginn]] felt he was not yet ready to record, and the tapes were put aside for several months.<ref name="everything" />  After several shows with Reyes, one of which was filmed for the movie ''[[The Decline of Western Civilization]]'', the sessions resumed, first with Ginn overdubbing new guitar parts and then Reyes doing his vocals.  However, the initial attempts to record with Reyes proved fruitless when he started walking out of the vocal booth, and sometimes the studio entirely, in the middle of takes. Reyes later quit the band in the middle of a live performance, derailing the sessions entirely for a second time.<ref name="everything" />

Ginn and Dukowski were already talking with another former Redd Kross member, Dez Cadena, about joining the band as a second guitarist; when Reyes quit the group, Cadena was invited to take his place.<ref name="everything" /><ref name="band" />  The band's [[record producer|producer]]/[[recording engineer|engineer]] [[Spot (producer)|Spot]] took an incentive and brought Cadena into the studio to record his own vocals for the album.  Several tracks were done in one night with Cadena, but were shelved when Reyes agreed to complete the project.  These new vocal sessions, according to Spot, went so smoothly that he could not resist jokingly asking Reyes, "Why didn't you quit the band before this?"<ref name="everything" />

Ginn and Dukowski decided to release five tracks from the finished Reyes sessions as the 12" EP known to Black Flag fans today, and elected to make a second attempt at a debut album with Cadena as lead vocalist.