Here’s a scan of San Jose, CA punk fanzine FORGET IT! from 1981, and their hard-hitting editorial coverage of a Black Flag show riot on May 17th, 1981.
The Rise and Fall of San Francisco Weirdo Video Stores
PAMELA were awesome in a brief 7-song set at Thee Parkside tonight. Two guitars, no bass and a fantastic drummer. Total roaring tuff noise with hooks like you wouldna believe.
Wow, who is this? Nina Hagen and Die Toten Hosen? Haino??
Japanese Collectors Face a Record Shortage of Obscure Music – WSJ.com
Record collecting culture in Japan is another world, as I discovered during a marathon record shopping day in Tokyo in 2003. Here’s more proof.
Japanese Collectors Face a Record Shortage of Obscure Music – WSJ.com
A female French group who brought back the 1960s spirit of ye-ye to the 1980s, and even had one of their records released on Posh Boy (!) in the US, thanks to undying love shown the band by Rodney Bigenheimer (what a surprise!). I’m just now getting acquainted w/ the band. Maybe you can let me know if I should continue my research.
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Absolutely killer song in a roaring, clattering, blink-you-missed key from San Francisco’s PAMELA, featuring ex-folks from The Splinters and Wax Idols. They’ve only got one 45 out, plus a cheapo $3 purchase for their entire digitized recorded works over here. Do it!
I’m actually attending a rock and roll event this evening. It’ll be the first – and from what I’m hearing from my sources – potentially the last time I’ll get to see the awesome PAMELA.
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I remember ordering the three RATS LPs from Otis, the Rhino Records rare record god of the 1980s, simply because he’d likened them in a printed catalog circa 1988 to the Lazy Cowgirls. If there was a Cowgirl linkage anywhere that year, I was all over it. Dead Moon hadn’t yet begun (had they?), and frankly, I didn’t actually like my Rats albums all that much when I got ‘em.
Now I’m all growed up, and I think this track (“Panic on 39th”) from their 1976 debut LP is a total screamer. Yes, it’s Fred & Toody Cole of Portland, Oregon, longtime denizens of the down & dirty garage punk rock arts.
The first punk rock fanzine I ever purchased, circa 1981. I took three buses from our house in San Jose to Do-Re-Mi Records in Los Gatos to go record shopping, and was intrigued enough by Sid Terror and The Undead (SF version) to buy this San Jose-published ‘zine. More scans from RIPPER in coming days.
AGONY SHORTHAND 