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SOUTH BAY RIPPER was an early incarnation of the San Jose-based fanzine RIPPER that took hardcore punk’s reigns around 1981 and ran with ‘em, hard. This issue came out in early 1980, a pre-HC era in which the editors of this magazine were pontificating about Nick Lowe & Elvis Costello while arguing about what was “new wave” vs. what was “punk”.

There’s even a column in here in which a writer argues that he’s come up with an even better term for the paradigm-busting sounds of the day: “modern music”! 

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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. 

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Over the years I’ve penned a handful of liner notes that have ended up on records and compact disc recordings. With one exception, this was unpaid work, for which I was exceptionably happy to work for “free”. I’ve got an ego like anyone else, but I also am happy to lend my name and purple prose to a release by a band or label I’m smitten with. 

Maybe you have some of these in your collection. Take a look inside or on the back. I might be looking back at ya.

  • CHEATER SLICKS – “Refried Dreams”
  • MUDHONEY – “Superfuzz Bigmuff 25th Anniversary Edition”
  • THE BETTER BEATLES – “Mercy Beat”
  • SILTBREEZE RECORDS – “Tard N’ Furthered” compilation
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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.