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).
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.
I never cottoned all that much to the solo stuff from HOLLY GOLIGHTLY, but this track “I Can’t Be Trusted”, which originally came out in 1996 on Super Electro Records, is a real scorcher. A swirling psych-fuzz pounder of the highest order.
First issue of a Patti Smith Group fanzine, devoted to her bootleg recordings & other ephemera, called ANOTHER DIMENSION.
Hey folks, sorry it’s been a week since my last outbound communication. I was fortunate enough to have been in London this past week, and even more fortunate to have found time to wandered to the SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE record store in Soho.
This is the store affiliated with the Soul Jazz record label, responsible for helping to popularize a crate-digging aesthetic centered around diverse genres like dub reggae, 60s soundtracks, worldwide psych, postpunk, no wave and experimental trippiness from the 60s & 70s. I got caught up in the moment, and bought “Khana! Khana”. billed as “funk, psychedelia and pop from the Iranian pre revolution generation”; and “Psych Funk Sa-Re-Ga!”. a compilation of Indian psychedelia funk music from India, circa 1970-83.
It’s not hard to lose yourself in their world at this tiny store. It’s packed with things you’ve absolutely never seen before. I’ll post a full report on my findings from these two discs once I actually listen to them. I’ll give them a 50/50 chance of still being in my collection three years from now.
Louder, Faster, Shorter
Video comp put out by Search & Destroy featuring
UXA
Dils
Avengers
Sleepers
Mutants
A classic. Check out the drive into 1978 San Francisco that starts this out, featuring the long-gone waterfront freeway.
Whoa – look at Jeff McDonald there on the left. Little Opie Cunningham!
