TOUCH AND GO: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79–’83, by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson, Edited by Steve Miller
The complete series 1979–1983. Twenty-two issues in one loud, fast volume. Ships today in a hardcore fun pack with 1 1/4″ metal badge, stylin’ new wave yellow balloon, and more!
ISBN 978-0979616389 Trade paperback
576 stiff full-sized 8.5″ x 12″ pages
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.
Moisten your earholes with fresh words wet from the mouths of author Tesco Vee and editor Steve Miller:
“I was inspired by how fearless and together Touch and Go were. They were really wild and extremely funny.”—Henry Rollins
“It was really one of the first times anyone outside of Washington really paid us any mind. The fact that Touch and Go took an interest in us really blew us away.”—Ian MacKaye, Minor Threat
“Creem may have taught me how to piss, but Touch and Go taught me how to shit. I owe my career to that magazine.”—John Brannon, Negative Approach
“Easily one of the best hardcore reads you’ll ever sink your fangs into…enthralling.”—Montreal Mirror
“As a hardcore punk primer you couldn’t do better.”—Time Out Chicago
“Anyone who’s ever published a true DIY fanzine owes at least a small debt to Touch and Go.”—Decibel
“Slapdash, ornery, and entertaining”—Popmatters
“If you have any interest at all in hardcore punk or being rude, you need this.”—Austin American-Statesman, Summer Reading Picks
“Influential”—Village Voice, Voice Picks
“Essential”—Washington Post Express
“Lots of energy gets captured in this handsome, perfectbound volume, down to the original, frenetic cut-and-paste layouts.”—Detroit Metro-Times
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.
In laughably minuscule 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. Inspired by magazines such as Slash and Search and Destroy and writers like Claude Bessy and Chris Desjardines, TV and DS pumped out seventeen naughty, irreverent issues together, and TV did another five solo.
Magazines like Forced Exposure and Your Flesh, among others, soon fired up Xerox machines 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 their weight in glorious black and white.
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[...] Lovely complete edition of this seminal zine was recently released. Folks in the NYC area can attend a launch party tonight at powerHouse Books in in DUMBO (Brooklyn). [...]
We highly recommend this book to all.
http://www.bigwheelmagazine.com/book_reviews/touch-and-go-the-complete-hardcore-punk-zine-79-83-book-review
Stop by the Book Release Party – Sat. July 17th, at The Abbey, Chicago.
more info: http://www.ticketfly.com/tickets/event-details/?tfly_event_id=10237
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Ordered mine on Thursday. CAN’T WAIT.
Wow. got my pre-order in the mail today and this thing is amazing! fantastic job on this, It’s fucking awesome!
My book showed up today and holy crap it’s impressive. Awesome job !
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Will the fine folks of T&G be providing similar swag along with the book at the Abbey Pub in Chicago on July 17? Thanks!
it says it comes w/a badge and ‘more’…of course it begs the question, what else(& u mean button when u say badge right?lol)?
Sure—there’s printed black balloon, some cards, a Tesco Vee for President sticker… and the first 100 orders will receive signed copies of the We’re The Meatmean…And You Still Suck! classic live CD. Plus whatever else we can cram in the box!
alright, got my two pre-ordered! me and my brother are gonna worship this, get the fuck out of the way stupid bible!
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can’t wait for this book to drop! it’s gonna go well with this book i just finished laying out: http://revelationrecords.com/news/show/229
Yes it will! And both books are sharing an incredible joint book release show in Detroit this July.
seriously, there’s a heavy metal cookbook but this isn’t out yet? …..
[...] 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.
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