SUPERDOPE #3 “1991 Readers’ Poll Results”. They weren’t actually the result of any poll – simply my year-end “best-of” list.
In 1999 I tried to resurrect my dead Superdope fanzine with an “email attachment” version. That lasted all of one email. Here it is.
SONIC’S RENDEZVOUS BAND article written by Steve Watson for Superdope #1, a fanzine I put out in 1991. Steve passed away yesterday, and it’s hit those who knew him pretty hard despite ample warning that his passing was coming.
Funny story about this one: Steve gave me his typewritten pages for the piece and I published it as is. I thought the ending was a little clunky, but good, and neither of us thought anything of it until we actually saw it in print. That’s when Steve realized he’d forgotten to give me the last couple of pages (!). We talked about putting “Part 2” in Superdope’s second issue, and somehow it never happened.
The flyers in the piece came from Steve’s personal collection; this was his favorite band while he was growing up in Michigan. Best wishes to him in the great beyond, and to all who knew him.
“…they’re all wonderfully celebratory herks & jerks in the patented blink-and-you-missed style.” – J Hinman
DISTURBED #2 1995 (page 17), ROBERT PLANTE, Editor
- Last month we celebrated JIMMY JOHNSON as Fuckin’ Record Reviews’ inaugural UNSUNG HERO OF ROCKNROLL WRITING. There was a Forced Exposure discography at the end of the Jimmy Johnson interview in which Byron Coley tossed off comments about each release, with Disturbed editor Robert Plante adding unauthorized liftage from other sources.
- The Minutemen review above does not appear to include Coley commentary, but instead swipes an equally sharp JAY HINMAN review from Superdope #7 (1994).
“…you really DO need to own any and all Fireworks records of the seven-inch variety.”
SUPERDOPE #7 1994 (no page #)
FIREWORKS review by JAY HINMAN, Editor
- Superdope was then, Dynamite Hemorrhage #1 is now.
Apologies for the poor scan – this is from an “email newsletter” I sent out in 1999 after the fall of my fanzine SUPERDOPE, which I called Superdope 1.0.
Mick never did get that fiber back into his diet, did he?
“San Francisco feels good again.”
The return of…THIS DATE IN FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS HISTORY!
SUPERDOPE #1 1991 (page 3) JAY HINMAN, Editor
- Jay succumbs to the magic of THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 23 years ago.
From the fanzine I published 23 years ago. Guess this is what I was doing on that exact evening. Tonight I might go to bed around 9:30.
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.
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.
AGONY SHORTHAND 