I wrote this review for Superdope #1 fanzine in 1990, right after the coldest night I think we’ve ever had in the San Francisco Bay Area – 17 degrees. Steve Watson slipped on some ice and fell hard to the ground on this night. That never happens here.
Clear that I was already tiring of The Dwarves here; unfortunately they didn’t quite feel the joke had grown cold just yet.
What’s going on with the Dynamite Hemorrhage fanzine #1, you ask? Oh, you didn’t know? Yeah, I’m working on a print fanzine that will come out in less than 2 months – wrapping up all writing, ads and such by 12/1, with layout and printing happening in December. There’s so much stuff in there I think we may top 60-70 pages, no joke. Some highlights:
Stay close for pre-ordering details if you’re interested. More info to be provided in this space shortly.
ROYAL TRUX, Conflict Magazine, Fall 1989.
My review of the first GUIDED BY VOICES record I ever heard, circa 1993, from SUPERDOPE fanzine #6.
Man, I used to love the GIBSON BROS, everything about them and then some. The bloom has only come off the rose a little in two decades, and I say that mostly because I played them to death in the 80s and 90s, making me far less likely to listen to them now.
Review from my Superdope #4 fanzine, 1992.
This fanzine, SUPERDOPE #8, is one that I put out in 1998, and one of which I still have multiple copies left. I’m selling if you’re buying.
It’s a digest-sized ‘zine with a long piece on my then-favorite 45rpm singles, each individually reviewed and explained. You can get a sense from the cover of what kind of music we’re talking about here. The magazine also has reviews of then-au courant rocknroll acts as well.
Only $3 to US residents ($4 Canada, $7 rest of world), via Paypal, to jayhinman(at)hotmail(dotcom). Make sure you provide your address to me there and I’ll wing one out to you right away.
My scanning of SUPERDOPE fanzine, which I used to write and put out myself back in the 1990s, continues apace. I’ve already scanned the previous six issues, which were published 1991-1993, and you can download and read each of them here. Here’s the lone issue that came out in 1994, SUPERDOPE #7. It was a small digest-sized mag centered around two in-person interviews I did with the bands Doo Rag and Virginia Dare. The interviews are then followed by a few book reviews and then a whole mess of record reviews.
Nineteen years later, it seems to read pretty well. I can’t say that I’ve spent a whole lot of time listening to either Doo Rag or Virginia Dare since then, but hey, that’s where my 26-yr-old head was in 1994, and I still like ‘em both. Around this time I was also “running” a small record label called WOMB; you can see on the back of this ‘zine the ad I made for the Monoshock 45 I put out. A few months after this came out, Anthony from Past It Records and I put out a Demolition Doll Rods 45 as well, and that was the end of Womb Records.
Turned out it was pretty much the end of Superdope fanzine, as well – at least for four years. In 1998, I came back and published one final issue of the magazine. Alas, it’s the only one I have any copies of anymore, and if you’re interested in it, this post provides some details on how to order it. #7, the one I’m posting here – well, I’m afraid you’ll have to scour the fanzine aftermarket. Or just download it here.
DOWNLOAD Superdope #7 (1994)
THE GERMS evolve and win friends – review from RAW POWER #5 fanzine in 1978, as scanned and written about in the excellent Waitekere Walks blog this week.
This fanzine, SUPERDOPE #8, is one that I put out in 1998, and one of which I still have multiple copies left. I’m selling if you’re buying.
It’s a digest-sized ‘zine with a long piece on my then-favorite 45rpm singles, each individually reviewed and explained. You can get a sense from the cover of what kind of music we’re talking about here. The magazine also has reviews of then-au courant rocknroll acts as well.
Only $3 to US residents ($4 Canada, $7 rest of world), via Paypal, to jayhinman(at)hotmail(dotcom). Make sure you provide your address to me there and I’ll wing one out to you right away.
ZERO GRAVITY fanzine #2, circa 1992 or so, which was published by Truman’s Water’s Glen Galloway, aka Glen Galaxy, out of San Diego.
AGONY SHORTHAND 