Chris D., Slash magazine writer (and Flesh Eaters singer), from “The Decline of Western Civilization Pt. 1″, 1981.
Thanks to Andrea Feldman for the screen grab.
Tag: Slash Magazine
A new print history of SLASH magazine is coming out in a month. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time – and really glad to see it will contain an oral history, essays and the like.
It may not be the compleat collection we’ve been begging for, but you can get that here, I guess.
Currently reading this new book and am enjoying it greatly.
MacDonell writes a self-effacing story of his blurry punk rock coming-of-age in LA punk’s first wave, circa 1977 and beyond. He writes for Slash, he befriends Black Randy, he passes out on his own front lawn.
Read a full interview with the man here, and pick up the book here or here.
*** Update on July 30th: I got really tired of this book in a hurry. Never mind what I said earlier. Here’s what I wrote on GoodReads:
This started out with a bang, and I was all-in….and then quickly descended into a litany of “I was so wasted” drug stories, one after the other, ad nauseum. Really, is there anything more boring that someone’s drug memoir? It gets extremely tiresome about halfway in, by which point I’d lost all my interest and was totally deadened to this guy’s mistakes and motivations, which seemed to revolve around destroying himself as quickly as possible, while making everything into a “party” no matter the day or hour.
The connection to the ‘77-’78 LA punk scene – which is what I though this would be about – is tangential. MacDonnell’s PCP freakouts and blackouts take place at or near The Masque, Whiskey, Canterbury House and so on and so forth, but it’s more an insight into one man’s drugged-out stupidity than it is an illumination into anything new or different that we don’t already know about that scene or era. Music is barely existent in this book and resides in the background of dozens of drug stories. Huge yawn.
THE SCREAMERS, from the Slash Magazine 1-year-anniversary issue, 1978.
SHOCK – ad for their debut 45, SLASH Magazine 1978.
FLESH EATERS are playing the Whiskey w/ the Alleycats, you guys. In 1978. I’m all in.
Scanned from Slash magazine’s 1-year anniversary issue.
From the SLASH magazine 1-year anniversary issue, Los Angeles 1978.
ALLEY CATS / FLESH EATERS / CONSUMERS ad – live at The Whiskey in Los Angeles, June 1978. Scanned from Slash magazine.
Advertisement for the second GERMS 45, scanned from Slash Magazine’s 1-year anniversary issue, 1978.
I bought my first-ever copy of SLASH magazine last week – it’s the one I posted a few scans from already, and the one you see pictured here, from early 1980.
I thought the magazine was going to be compiled in a book one day by some enterprising young moneymaker – lord knows they’d get a few buyers. Erudite, opinionated and on the scene of Los Angeles punk rock ‘77-’80 as it was happening, it’s a huge cut above most other fanzines of its day or any other. I got to read my punker cousin’s copies a couple of decades ago, and figured I’d wait for that book to finally get made, just like the two books of SEARCH & DESTROY fanzines were – which was the (inferior) San Francisco counterpart to SLASH.
Eventually I started bidding for copies of Slash on eBay, without winning, and eventually found other routes to procuring this copy – with five more on the way soon. If I can get over my nervousness about creasing, spindling, folding and mutilating the magazine, look forward to more scans from these magazines here in the near future.
DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE 