TOUCH AND GO MAGAZINE: The Complete Years, by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson
The complete series 1979—1983. Twenty-two issues in one loud, fast volume.
ISBN 978-0979616389
576 stiff pages
Featuring new introductory essays by Tesco Vee, Dave Stimson, Steve Miller, Henry Rollins, Keith Morris, Peter Davis, Henry Owings, Byron Coley, Corey Rusk, John Brannon, and Ian MacKaye.
Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan in 1979. Major fanatics of the new punk happenings in the late ’70s, TV and DS set out to chronicle, lambaste, ridicule, and heap praise on all they arbitrarily loved or hated in the music communities in the US and abroad. Inspired by magazines such as Slash and Search and Destroy and writers like Claude Bessey and Chris DesJardines, TV and DS pumped out seventeen issues together with TV doing the last five solo. In laughably miniscule press runs by today’s standards, T&G was made by guys within the Midwest scene strictly for the edification of scenesters and pals in other cities like DC, Philly, Boston, LA, SF, Chicago, et al. Magazines like Forced Exposure and Your Flesh among others were soon inspired by T&G to fire up the Xerox machine themselves, and the rest is history. So is the legendary independent record label launched from this ‘zine, and so are the bands covered inside: Black Flag, Minor Threat, the Misfits, Negative Approach, the Fix, the Avengers, the Necros, Discharge, Iron Cross, Youth Brigade, Faith, Die Kreuzen, Crucifix, Poison Idea, and all the other punks worth print.
Touch and Go was what it was—a naughty, irreverent bird walkin’ trip thru the punk, hardcore, industrial, and indie of the late ’70s and early ’80s. And oh, what a fun trip it was!
[...] Prima di essere una delle label più influenti del panorama musicale, la Touch & Go era una delle più seguite fanzine punk rock. Veniva fondata nel 1979 da Tesco Vee (vedi Meatmen) e Dave Stimson in un’amena cittadina del Michigan. Tra il 1979 e il 1983 vennero pubblicati 22 numeri che oggi sono merce rarissima. Ci pensa però la Bazillion Points a colmare il vuoto. In estate sarà fuori il volume “Touch and Go: The Complete Years”, curato dagli stessi fondatori assieme a Steve Miller. [leggi] [...]
can you maybe skip the other books you’re putting out and just get to this one already? i want to pay in american dollars very quickly yes.
[...] early for indie rock and hardcore historians. Rather, it will be coming next year. According to Bazillion Points, The complete collection of now legendary fanzine Touch and Go will be released as a softcover book [...]