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Flipside Featured Issue #12
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Welcome to Issue #12! In this issue I've featured the editorials by X-8 and Al! The editorial from X-8 talks about the growing schizm in the punk scene between street punks and "art punks" and the Fiorucci's component.* This issue is the one where I grabbed the quote about the trashing of Madame Wongs which appears on the front page of this website - read the Al Flipside
editorial in its entirety right here! Also in this issue is an update
on the Masque (which by this time had been officially closed but was
still holding sporadic private parties - see the 1979 gig database for
details); there's also interviews with Joan Jett, Middle Class, Alex Ferguson of Alternative Tv, and the Denney brothers of Weirdos. The Weirdos interview is a Flipside classic - Al and X-8 argue with them about their waning popularity, until John finally blows his top! In the Alex Ferguson interview Alex discusses how he came to audition for The Quick - which basically didn't work out. Read the interesting spin that Alex puts on why his band Alternative TV left him. Is he a conceited you-know-what, you tell me! (In another issue of Flipside, The Quick give their version of what happened...), I've also included here Gerber's gossip which includes an update on famed LA punk crashpad and residence, The Canterbury;
a couple clippings of the Nooze section with lots of gossip.... and
I've thrown in a couple gig reviews. (unfortunately due to the
impossibility of being able to put up jpegs of the actual pages large
enough for anyone to read (we're talking huge files here!) I've had to
retype this stuff. But I've put up images of what the actual lay-out in
Flipside looked like, right in the interviews. | |
John Denney, The Weirdos |
Table of Contents
Interviews
The Denney Brothers (Weirdos) |
| *My Fiorucci's story: I went to Fiorucci's one time when I was about 16 or 17. I had to take the bus all the way from Hermosa Beach to go there, something like a 2-hour trip one-way by bus! Fiorucci's was located practically at the foot of Rodeo Drive in an old 1930s-era Theatre that has since been turned into a bank (nothing lasts for long in Los Angeles; it either gets renovated or demolished!). I'd say it was the cutting edge back then for what a trendy boutique would look like with wide expansive rooms, 20 foot high ceilings, and hardwood floors. The clothing basically was upscale punk duds. Spazz Attack of Arthur J. and the Goldcups (who taught me how to put in zippers!) actually had a line of bondage pants and shirts that he sold there. Margo of the Go-Go's supposedly worked there for a short time before being fired.... | |