Issue #2 of the Patti Smith Group fanzine ANOTHER DIMENSION, covering Patti bootlegs, live shows and loads of related Patti ephemera.
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Here’s a spasmodic track by tempo-shifting, post-hardcore noisemakers HONEYSUCK that caught my eardrums. Remember a San Francisco band called So So Many White White Tigers? I didn’t think so, but let me tell ya, this band sounds like ‘em, female vocals and all! Crazed stuff from Western Massachusetts.
Fanzine ad for MONOSHOCK’s first 45 on Womb Records, which happened to be my label. This happened to also be the only ad I ever created for the label as well.
Extra-embarrassing because I quoted my own review of the band (!).
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1967 Bo Diddley-meets-heavy UK psych-meets The Hampton Grease Band (who hadn’t even started playing yet) from Mick Farren’s DEVIANTS. “Garbage” is one of their deservedly-recognized classics. From the album “Ptooff!”.
Over the years I’ve penned a handful of liner notes that have ended up on records and compact disc recordings. With one exception, this was unpaid work, for which I was exceptionably happy to work for “free”. I’ve got an ego like anyone else, but I also am happy to lend my name and purple prose to a release by a band or label I’m smitten with.
Maybe you have some of these in your collection. Take a look inside or on the back. I might be looking back at ya.
- CHEATER SLICKS – “Refried Dreams”
- MUDHONEY – “Superfuzz Bigmuff 25th Anniversary Edition”
- THE BETTER BEATLES – “Mercy Beat”
- SILTBREEZE RECORDS – “Tard N’ Furthered” compilation
This is Issue #7 of the fanzine I used to put out in the 90s called SUPERDOPE. This one’s from 1994; I took a four year break after this one, and came back with a final issue in early 1998.
DOO RAG don’t necessarily wear well with 18 years of hindsight, but at the time they’d just been through San Francisco and played three shows, all of which I saw. What a hoot. I mean, there was a guy named Thermos in the band, and it was the right time for a band to play twisted, fact-paced delta-slide blues on vacuum cleaners and cardboard boxes.
I’ll try to scan the entire magazine and post it here and on The Hedonist Jive soon.
Remember the Committee In Solidarity With The People of El Salvador, aka CISPES? I do! So do Dinosaur Jr., otherwise known as Dinosaur right about then (‘86).
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One of the great English DIY vinyl artifacts of all time, from THE PETTICOATS on her one and only 7"EP from 1980. Yes, it was a her, not a they – Stef Petticoat, to be precise. She said on the record itself that it “…contains 3 B-sides. Play loud”. Oh, you will.
I gotta ask Chris Stover if Void truly played with ½ Japanese in their glory days….too good to be true.
Another terrific post by WAITAKERE WALKS blog on The Quick, Touch & Go fanzine, Pandoras, Milk & Cookies and more late 70s/early 80s esoterica.
AGONY SHORTHAND 