Would the real Black Flag Please stand up? Meet the players.

Announcements are rolling in that throughout 2013 there will be not one, but two Black Flag reunion tours on the road. One is bearing the name Black Flag (with an album in the works) and the other is simply billing itself as FLAG, but both have an impressive lineup and a legitimate claim to the hallowed name.

With a momentous but confusing opportunity to catch either collection of punk icons on the road, it's useful to know the lineups of each outfit, so you'll know whats in store.

So let's meet the players in each respective gang, and scope out their resumes.

Greg Ginn

Greg Ginn - Guitarist, Black Flag

The man behind the Black Flag reunion, Ginn holds the distinction of not only being a founding member of Black Flag, but also the only member who has been part of every single lineup of the band. Along the way, he's been the founder of SST Records (originally a business he'd founded as a child to sell radio parts that he re-purposed to sell Black Flag records and later essential records by everyone from the Minutemen to Husker Du to the Descendents) and a member of about 8 billion other bands.

He also holds the Black Flag name and a new studio album in the works, the first since 1985's In My Head.

Mike Vallely

Mike Vallely - Vocalist, Black Flag

When Black Flag announced its comeback, Greg Ginn selected former Black Flag vocalist Ron Reyes to front the band. The member with the shortest recorded legacy, Reyes' contribution was limited to 1980's Jealous Again EP, with a large reason for his brief stint having to do with his explosive relationship with his bandmates. This explosive relationship came to a head once again shortly after the release of the band's lackluster comeback album What The . . .

(the band's first record in 28 years), when Ginn fired Reyes mid-show at a performance in Australia.

A pro skater and former frontman for bands including Mike V and the Rats, Revolution Mother and Good for You, Vallely (who had been managing the band at the time) is a pretty logical choice, with a legacy with the band. A few years back I interviewed him at the time of the Revolution Mother release, and he talked about the fact that not only had his first show ever been a Black Flag performance in 1984 at City Gardens in Trenton, New Jersey, but that he had also performed as a guest vocalist at a Black Flag reunion show almost 20 years later, describing the experience as "an honor."

Dale Nixon

Dale Nixon - Studio bassist, Black Flag
The bassist for Black Flag has a striking resemblance to Greg Ginn, and for good reason as they're one and the same. The alter ego for Ginn, Nixon is also the name he used on the liner notes when he played bass for 1984's My War. In fact, Dale Nixon is a storied pseudonym in punk rock, having also been used by Dave Grohl and Brian Bake during guest slots. This time, the pseudonym suggests that Ginn will be playing bass in the studio, with former Screeching Weasel bassist filling in for the live performances.

Gregory Moore, AKA Drummer

Gregory Moore, AKA Drummer - Drummer, Black Flag
Often billed simply as Drummer, Gregory Moore is the one member of Black Flag without a truehistorical connection to Black Flag itself (although he did perform with them at a 2003 reunion show). That being said, his connection with Ginn and his projects goes back a long way. The drummer for Ginn's instrumental side project Gone, as well as Ginn's other bands El Bad and Get Me High.

He is also the drummer for Are You A Cop?

Keith Morris

Keith Morris - Vocalist, Flag

The original frontman for Black Flag before departing to form Circle Jerks, Keith Morris is arguably the second most memorable Black Flag singer (after Henry Rollins), and the biggest name in either outfit. Over the years he has continued with Circle Jerks and OFF!, and also managed to cultivate an unruly mane of radioactive dreads while getting arrested for taking used oil from a fast food joint to fuel his tour bus.

Dez Cadena

Dez Cadena - Guitar, FLAG

FLAG can boast that it has not one, but two Black Flag frontmen in its lineup. While Cadena was a guitarist for Black Flag, he also filled in on vocals in the era after the departure of Reyes and before the arrival of Henry Rollins. Cadena is also the guiarist for the Misfits, and is in fact the band's longest serving guitarist.

Chuck Dukowski

Chuck Dukowski - Bassist, Flag
Another founding member of Black Flag, Dukowski played bass with the band from its founding until 1983, appearing on many of the band's most influential singles. He further blurs the lineups of both bands, having played with Black Flag's Greg Ginn in the SST Records side project October Faction. Currently he runs a jazz/punk freakout aptly entitled the Chuck Dukowski Sextet.

Bill Stevenson - Drums, FLAG

While Bill Stevenson may only have served as the drummer for Black Flag for a short period from 1983-1985, he came from and returned to other storied drumming slots. He had started with the Descendents, returning to drums for them again and on for All. He is a producer as well, having worked in the studio producing albums for bands from NOFX and The Bouncing Souls to Rise Against and Mustard Plug.

Stephen Egerton - Guitar, FLAG

The one member of FLAG with no time in the Black Flag lineup, Egerton still boasts a career that gives him the chops to warrant his inclusion now. A member of the Descendents and All with Bill Stevenson, Egerton also went on to produce records, and was behind, among other records, the Scandals Trenchknife EP.