An article on the AU PAIRS from RIPPER fanzine in 1981.
This “germinal” UK feminist agitprop post-punk band, one of my all-time faves, is sorta the fish out of water in this San Jose-based hardcore ‘zine, which otherwise features The Lewd, Wasted Youth, TSOL and Black Flag in the rest of the issue. Bully for Tim Tanooka & the boys for some vision and taste.
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”!
The first punk rock fanzine I ever purchased, circa 1981. I took three buses from our house in San Jose to Do-Re-Mi Records in Los Gatos to go record shopping, and was intrigued enough by Sid Terror and The Undead (SF version) to buy this San Jose-published ‘zine. More scans from RIPPER in coming days.
An article on the AU PAIRS from RIPPER fanzine in 1981. This “germinal” UK feminist agitprop post-punk band, one of my all-time faves, is sorta the fish out of water in this San Jose-based hardcore ‘zine, which otherwise features The Lewd, Wasted Youth, TSOL and Black Flag in the rest of the issue. Bully for Tim Tanooka & the boys for some vision and taste.
DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE 