Touch and Go

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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. Best Read [ Touch and Go ] by [ Tesco Vee ] – kino-fada.fr Good to have a complete anthology of the zine I had a few issues growing up, and it certainly covers a crucial period for me in punk music, as it was when I was a kid just getting into it Perhaps not as nutty a zine as Sick Teen, but not as mundane as some other zines from the period either, Touch Go had it s own kind of vibe going on You ll laugh at some of the rave reviews they gave to very unimportant mediocre records, and some of the pans they gave to truly brilliant classics Great Good to have a complete anthology of the zine I h...This is such an amazing slice of music writing and punk history A slice of penis and gay joke filled punk rock taste making muckraking mayhem filled history The internet ruins everything.From my interview with Tesco Vee about this impressive and important anthology this book transcends Tescoe Vee, The Meatmen and everything that I have ever done it s because it covers such a broad spectrum and somebody else wrote about it It says that this book does so I can lighten the such a grand idea or this book Probably does the best job of any of these punk retrospectives of really s...holy crap, tesco vee wrote a book this man was the soundtrack of my youth legend has it that a video floats the etherwires, a video involving young computer scientists rendering some Tesco Meatmen tunes back in 1997, and it might or might not be true that there s a really just an extraordinary amount of blow in this video, especially for 17 year olds, and i might or might not be heard to exclaim word to your mother in a wholly unironic tone, and it might be one of the last known records of H holy crap, tesco vee wrote a book this man was the soundtrack of my youth legend has it that a video floats the etherwires, a video involving young computer scientists rendering some ...a wonderful look at a scene that I never was a part of because I m way too young Really, really surreal things like a review of the Transmission single that includes a comment to the effect of Joy Divisions lead singer, Ian Curtis, diedHow many years have I waited for this So worth it too.Wow, a lot to say about this book This stuff was a few years before my time, and a couple hundred miles to the north, and I never saw an issue in person until now, but I remember hearing a lot of the gossip and news from these zines handed down to us kids in Cincinnati as gospel, and of course after the zine folded, the record label sold me a lot of records...GREaT, jest PeRfeCT i had read 1 or 2 of th 1982 iSSues.when PauLie lent em t me.now that i look em.i believe that Tony B had 1 of the 1980 issues.and this was when X LoS ANGeLes came out.so it stuck in my head then.that wow, here s this rekkid.that we re lissening to, and here s this fanzine.which other than jest starting to hear of.punk zines made by fans, and these were.from what i d heard up til then, we re bRiTiSh.so as sum one that was GREaT, jest PeRfeCT i had read 1 or 2 of th 1982 iSSues.when PauLie lent em t me.now that i look em.i believe that Tony B had 1 of the 1980 issues.and this wa...This is an excellently curated collection of the classic Touch and Go fanzine, published in Michigan during the years in the title As someone interested in the history of underground music and information preservation, fanzine collections like this are always welcome It s exciting to read perceptions as people first dropped the needle on records by now classic bands like Discharge and Black Flag right after their releases, and to drool over reviews of records that now sell for hundreds if not This is an excellently curated collection of the classic Touch and Go fanzine, published in Michigan during the years in the title As someone interested in the history of underground music and information preservation, fanzine collections like this are always welcome It s exciting to read perceptions as people first dropped the needle on records by now classic bands like Discharge and Black Flag right after their rel...Why Everything You Think You Know About Punk Is Completely Wrong

Touch and Go
  • English
  • 10 February 2017
  • Paperback
  • 576 pages
  • 0979616387
  • Tesco Vee
  • Touch and Go