The Mummies 1991 on Flickr.
One of my all-time favorite live music photos, and it was taken by super-photographer Nicole Penegor for my SUPERDOPE fanzine in 1991. The Mummies were playing live at the DNA Lounge, which was the first and last time I ever saw a show at that venue.
I hope I’m not bumming anyone’s high too much by declaring that I find this band to be extremely overrated and posthumously very uninteresting. Supercharger all the way, baby.
I’ve been fortunate to have been asked to pen some liner notes for the upcoming 20th-anniversary reissue of COME’s masterful “Eleven: Eleven” LP from ‘92. I was sent this scan by the band, from my fanzine Superdope from the following year, to jog my memory. Tempting to do a little cut-n-paste and call it day, but I’ll see what I can come up with in the next hour or two.
Come live in SF 1993 on Flickr.
COME, playing at the Kennel Club in San Francisco in April 1993. One of the best live shows I ever saw. Photo taken by Nicole Penegor. The 25th anniversary release of “11:11” is set for launch later this year.
Since we’re posting fanzine scans, why not take a gander at the last one I made? This is SUPERDOPE #8, which came out in 1998. I have plenty of extra copies, for what it’s worth, and will mail one anywhere in the world if you’ve got $3 to Paypal me at jayhinman@hotmail.com. $4 for Canada, $6 everywhere else.
It contains a long article called “45 45s That Moved Heaven and Earth” and is exactly what it sounds like. There are reviews of more current records of the era as well.
Fanzine ad for MONOSHOCK’s first 45 on Womb Records, which happened to be my label. This happened to also be the only ad I ever created for the label as well.
Extra-embarrassing because I quoted my own review of the band (!).
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.
AGONY SHORTHAND 