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Years of Cro-Mags dis‘chord’ climaxes in E. Village stabbing rampage

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HEEBIE-GB: Harley Flanagan is led into custody yesterday after cops say he stabbed and bit two former bandmates at Webster Hall Friday. John Joseph (inset) of Cro-Mags (bottom) says that Flanagan is a loser who “thinks the world owes him something.” (William Farrington; Stacia Timonere/ Getty Images)

What a punk!

Former Cro-Mags bassist Harley Flanagan entered the rock ’n’ roll feud Hall of Fame Friday night when he showed up at the CBGB Festival at Webster Hall with a hunting knife — and his own sharp teeth.

“They think they’re going to play my f–king music that I helped write?” the berserk bassist growled before stabbing and biting two current band members.

His off-the-wall behavior — recalling a time when CBGB was an East Village rock club and not a pricey boutique — was the culmination of three decades of drama, lead singer and band co-founder John “Bloodclot” Joseph told the Post.

“He’s been telling people that he was going to do this s–t,” a disgusted Joseph, 50, said.

Flanagan, 42, who claims he founded the band as preteen, has earned a rocky reputation among ex-band mates.

“Nobody in the band likes him,” Joseph said — especially victims William Berario and Michael Couls, who had to be stitched up at Bellevue Hospital.

Strapped down to an orange stretcher, the crazed, rejected bassist still managed to flip off a crowd of gawkers as he was hauled off.

Who knew how fitting the band’s 1986 debut album “Age of Quarrel” would prove to be.

Joseph and Flanagan led very different lives before they met in 1981 in Washington, DC, at a Bad Brains show.

Joseph had the street cred. He grew up in Manhattan and bounced from abusive homes to orphanages, he said. The gritty Lower East Side became his home in 1977. Punk rock, music that spoke about survival, guided him. He peddled pot to get by, and wound up serving 21-months in prison for dealing.

He joined the Navy, but went AWOL in 1981, right around the time he met Flanagan, he said.

Flanagan had things a bit easier. He was a child prodigy who wrote a poetry book at the age of nine. The collection’s forward was written by Allen Ginsberg, a family friend.

Despite the different upbringings, Joseph and Flanagan hit it off musically.

“He tells everybody he founded the band,” Joseph said. “We founded the band.”

The group — think angrier version of the Ramones — brought a more aggressive sound to the punk-rock scene.

Both men floated in and out of the band over the years — and spent most that time fighting.

To the Cro-Mags, Joseph claims, Flanagan is nothing more than a thief who’s stolen “tens of thousands of dollars” from the band and an agitator who causes problems wherever he went.

The band toured in 1986, and Flanagan pocketed every cent, Joseph claimed.

“That caused me to lose my apartment and be homeless in 1987,” he said. “I lived hand to mouth.”

And it was Flanagan who ratted out Joseph to the Navy in 1995, adding more animosity to the relationship.

“I ran into him at CBs and knocked him out,” he said of an encounter in the ’90s.

But it was Flanagan who was the real “bully,” according to Joseph, who described the bassist as a “skinhead,” who roamed the Lower East Side attacking people.

Joseph got so sick of the madness that he ditched the band to seek serenity, becoming a monk and yogi at a temple.

“When I saw him, he was being all in my face, and I punched him in the mouth,” he said. “I only hit him one time.”

But in 2000, they once again sorted things out and reunited for Hellfest, a punk festival in upstate New York.

The truce was short lived.

Outside the band’s van, Flanagan threatened people with a baseball bat.

“Twenty-five state troopers with riot gear were standing behind us,” Joseph recalled.

Afterwards, Flanagan declared the band was “over.”

“He didn’t even say good bye to me at the last show. He dropped his wallet — and he had all the tour money in it,” Joseph said.

When confronted about the cash, Flanagan replied, “F–k those motherf–kers. I’m going on vacation.”

A few years later, Flanagan collaborated with Cro-Mags guitarist Parris Mitchell Mayhew but without Joseph on an album called “Revenge,” and while on tour in Europe sparked another rift after allegedly swiping cash from his bandmate.

At Webster Hall on Friday, Joseph anticipated Flanagan’s arrival because his former bandmate had been posting threats on Facebook.

Joseph warned CBGB Festival organizers that Flanagan wasn’t wanted, but he wound up obtaining a press pass.

“Get somebody on the door who knows what he looks like,” Joseph said he warned. “They didn’t take that threat seriously.”

Flanagan snuck up to their dressing room and was spotted by Joseph’s girlfriend next to the door right before the band’s set at 8:15 pm. Joseph’s nephew ran to get security — but the bassist had already slashed and sunk his teeth into his victims.

Joseph walked on stage and calmed the crowd down. “Look, we’re going to make this up to you,” he said.

“He shouldn’t have been at that show,” Joseph said of Flanagan. “He showed up at the show with a knife. It shows intent.

“He has two kids. He needs to grow up.”

Joseph claims he wants nothing to do with Flanagan ever again.

“You could offer me $100,000; I wouldn’t do it. I hope his ass goes to Rikers with his swastika tattoo,” Joseph said.

Flanagan was charged with assault and weapons possession.

He was held last night on $25,000 bail. His lawyer, Sean Parmenter, said Flanagan was acting in self-defense and was “jumped” in “retribution” by his former bandmates.

Additional reporting by Aaron Feis