Something important that I learned from a sign at a swimming pool outside of Philadelphia.
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FREE TNT, (no issue number) 1987. Published by Paul Decolator, Philadelphia, PA. I am gradually creating an inventory of my entire ‘zine collection which mostly focuses primarily on underground music and culture from the 1980s and 1990s. This will eventually be a list with image links for each issue. In the meantime you can see lots more ‘zine covers here.
Talk Is Cheap, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1987. This radical/alternative newspaper was published in Philadelphia. The cover art comments on the then recent bombing by the police of the group M.O.V.E.’s house on Osage Avenue. More cover scans from my collection of ‘zines from the 1980s and 90s here.
While digging through Stephen Perkins’ flyer and poster collections I discovered a mini-collection of materials from Philadelphia that a colleague in that city had saved for him. Among these posters were flyers for some small club shows that I attended when I was a mere teenager in the late 1980s. Here is an oversize flyer for a Gwar, Tad and Serial Killers show that I saw at Revival in Philly (now the bar/eatery National Mechanics). What a total mess that gig was - fake blood, sweat and carnage everywhere in a club that only held about 200 people. You can see some of Stephen’s other collections on Public Collectors here.
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A photo of the New York band Nausea at the club Revival in Philadelphia, taken by yours truly. I believe this is from 1989.
A 1989 demo tape by the obscure Philadelphia metal band Master Axxis, with cover art by Drew Elliot. You can hear some songs from this band on their archival Myspace page.
An undated leaflet printed by the United Community Action Network in Philadelphia.
An undated leaflet printed by the United Community Action Network in Philadelphia.
A small collection of babies and beds in the maternity ward at the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia.
Gary Holt from the band Exodus, backstage at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia, from their 1987 show with Celtic Frost and Anthrax. I took this photo while I was interviewing the band for my old ‘zine Primary Concern. I wound up getting kicked out early in Celtic Frost’s set by an overzealous bouncer. Extremely disappointing.
Documentation of a faded Michael Jackson memorial in the window of a kitchen supply store in Philadelphia. Taken last February, 2010.
Just about finished scanning my collection of flyers from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia from the late 1980s and early 1990s. You can see the archive here. This one for Alice Donut and Trained Attack Dogs is from a show at the defunct club Revival, which is some kind of fancy upscale restaurant or some such nonsense now.
Documentation of a decaying architectural detail from an exceptionally old building facade on 2nd street, just off Market in Philadelphia.
