Outstandingly primitive, ridiculously foul-mouthed GORIES drummer Peg O’Neil, circa early 90s.
Tag: 90s
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)
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.
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THE CHARALAMBIDES were – and may very well remain, for all I know – a Houston-based band who continued well into the ‘00s after putting out a number of self-released tapes and records, as well as a much-hailed series of experimental psychedelic/folk LPs on Siltbreeze. I actually got to know the band’s Christina Carter via mail back when she was Christina-something-else, and working in a record store in Austin. She and her later-husband Tom Carter showed me a fantastic time in Houston once around 1994 or so when I was visiting on a business trip; taking me to an Indian restaurant, playing me records at their house and then drinking on the lawn at Rice University. Almost – almost – made me want to move to Houston, for about five minutes.
For years my favorite thing by them has been this 5-minute accordion instrumental that was almost a throwaway near the end of a side on their “Historic 6th Ward” LP from 1994. It’s called “Now The Day Is Over”. Let it lull you into a pleasant chin-on-hands stupor.
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Let’s revisit the awesome THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282, a band seemingly and unjustly lost to the 1990s and barely remarked-upon for the last decade and a half. At one point this San Francisco quintet were one of the most inventive, loopy and dissonantly fun rock and roll bands around.
This is “Sister Hell” from their first full-length album, “Tangle” from 1989.
Thinking Fellers Union 1991 on Flickr.
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282, live at the Chameleon in San Francisco, 1991. Photo by Nicole Penegor.
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.
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.
