Monday, March 22, 2021

TOWER, POWER BURGER, AND THEN TURNER'S


I ran into some old Flipside vinyl compilations and things turned to quicksand. Flipside was a fanzine started in L.A. in 1977, running over twenty yearss. It was crudely laid out, some of it handwritten, and the photo reproductions were shitty. But it's heart was the street, the scene, and gossip. What it lacked in presentation it more than made up for in immediacy.

After Flipside had been going for a while, they put out three "vinyl fanzines", which were compilations with oddball line-ups. The three posted below have a combined 59 songs. Few of the band names will be recognizable to most of you, but they are good to kind of pick through.


I was just listening to a few cuts randomly while perusing some of the back issues of the print zine at Internet Archive. There's a dozen or so posted and I decided to start with the oldest, from 1979. A few pages in were short scene reports from different cities. I'd forgotten that I had written the scene report for San Diego. I don't even remember how many issues I submitted one to. One thing that's apparent, the San Diego scene was small. In the report (snippets above) I wrote that there were only twelve bands "in the scene". Small as the scene was, after the Dils and Zeros split for San Francisco, two of combos just beginning in 1979 were the Crawdaddys and Non, both known internationally all these years later and two bands that couldn't be more disparate. More on that contrast later. I can feel the wheels coming off so I'm cutting out. Memory Lane is a narrow road.

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Listen:
Flipside Vinyl Fanzine, Volume 1
at Xtrmntr 19 songs
Full band credits here.

Flipside Vinyl Fanzine, Volume 2
at Xtrmntr 21 songs
Full band credits here.

Flipside Vinyl Fanzine, Volume 3
at Xtrmntr 19 songs
Full band credits here.

Visit:
Flipside 16, 1979
at Internet Archive
More Flipside issues
at Internet Archive Scroll down the page, all of the Flipside podcast are unrelated.
10 of the Best fLiPSiDE Fanzine Interviews
at LA Weekly Not the interviews themselves, just a top ten.

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