First issue of a Patti Smith Group fanzine, devoted to her bootleg recordings & other ephemera, called ANOTHER DIMENSION.
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Hey folks, sorry it’s been a week since my last outbound communication. I was fortunate enough to have been in London this past week, and even more fortunate to have found time to wandered to the SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE record store in Soho.
This is the store affiliated with the Soul Jazz record label, responsible for helping to popularize a crate-digging aesthetic centered around diverse genres like dub reggae, 60s soundtracks, worldwide psych, postpunk, no wave and experimental trippiness from the 60s & 70s. I got caught up in the moment, and bought “Khana! Khana”. billed as “funk, psychedelia and pop from the Iranian pre revolution generation”; and “Psych Funk Sa-Re-Ga!”. a compilation of Indian psychedelia funk music from India, circa 1970-83.
It’s not hard to lose yourself in their world at this tiny store. It’s packed with things you’ve absolutely never seen before. I’ll post a full report on my findings from these two discs once I actually listen to them. I’ll give them a 50/50 chance of still being in my collection three years from now.
Whoa – look at Jeff McDonald there on the left. Little Opie Cunningham!
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)
Photo shared with me on Facebook by Anthony Bedard. All tapes made by me, for him, when he and I were in “the tape-making stage” of our relationship.
THE NIXE playing live, 1979. Note the photographic absence of the “dude” in the band.
Pic by Jeroen “Buffel” Meijerink
….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.
A picture of East Lansing, MI band ABE FROMAN in action circa 2000.
AGONY SHORTHAND 