STONE BY STONE and CHRIS D. ad from Forced Exposure #16 fanzine, 1990.
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TAKE IT! fanzine from 1983, featuring Chris D. from the Flesh Eaters on the cover. This is the mag I’ve been pulling so many scans out of the past few weeks, and it’s probably one of the 10-15 best fanzines I’ve ever read, right up there w/ Forced Exposure and Slash.
Chris D. singing for THE FLESH EATERS, live 1982 on their US tour. Captured by Byron Coley in his classic tour diary in Take It! fanzine the next year.
DIVINE HORSEMEN advertisement from Forced Exposure, 1987. Features some fantastic Chris D collage/layout/lettering artwork, very familiar to Flesh Eaters, Divine Horsemen & Stone By Stone fans 1979 and beyond.
When I was 20 and 21 years old, I “interned” at SOUND CHOICE magazine, which was a large-circulation music magazine devoted to the obscure corners of cassette culture and independent music. Dave Ciaffardini, the editor, was a DJ on the same college radio station I was, and he was in need of someone to mail boxes, solicit ads and – and – jeez, I don’t even remember what I did there besides hijack promo copies of records I wanted.
Ciaffardini was a very friendly guy who wanted to help mold me into a journalist/publisher, and to some extent he helped me along – giving me my first forum for written record reviews, which later led into me publishing my own fanzine. I’m not sure I would have let some 20 year old dum-dum write reviews for me, but there you go. Here’s one I wrote on The Flesh Eaters when their “greatest hits” collection came out on SST in 1988.
Gregg Turner, then very active in the Angry Samoans, writing about THE FLESH EATERS in CREEM magazine, circa 1983.
Remember when we were talking about Chris D.’s STONE BY STONE the other day? Check out this June 24th, 1989 show in LA, and the band order. I moved out of Southern California back to San Francisco the week before this, where I continue to live to this day, but you best believe I would have been at this show had it been two weeks earlier.
Later that summer I saw Nirvana third on a bill, before Vomit Launch and Mudhoney, in San Jose. As it turned out, posterity will record the best band on this LA bill as being Claw Hammer, totally at their peak in mid-year ‘89.
(Flyer photo courtesy Chris Bagarozzi of Claw Hammer)
….and here’s the awesome flyer that Chris D wrote the set list on. You can see the “pen bleed” on the flyer if you look closely.
Since I never saw THE FLESH EATERS in their early 80s incarnation(s), getting to first a DIVINE HORSEMEN (‘86) and then a STONE BY STONE show in 1989 were big, big deals to me at the time. I was, and continue to be, a huge Chris D. worshipper, and though neither band floored me the way hearing the recently-deceased Flesh Eaters did when I got acquainted with them around 1985, their live shows were great.
Here’s a set list I swiped off the stage of Los Angeles’ Anti-Club when STONE BY STONE played there in ’89. It is effectively the entire contents of their one and only album, released on SST around that time.
Photo swiped from a fantastic, long 2002 interview with Chris D./Desjardins (Flesh Eaters, Divine Horsemen, Stone By Stone etc.) in Sex & Guts online mag.
AGONY SHORTHAND 