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WRITING FOR SLASH 1977 - 1981 The Know It All Years - Reviews

WRITING FOR SLASH 1977 - 1981 The Know It All Years - Reviews

Schwartz, Andy
Coley, Byron
D, Chris

Paperback

Punk

ISBN13: 9798840092040
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 28 2022
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
These are the earliest published works of Chris D., an author of novels, short stories and film writing, who is best known as singer/songwriter for the bands, The Flesh Eaters and Divine Horsemen. WRITING FOR SLASH features vintage, passionate, naive, funny, often savage and self-righteous musings - sometimes under Chris' pseudonyms: Bob Clone, Half-Cocked, Mr. OK - on the qualities rock music should embody in the late-1970s punk era. All these reviews of records (albums & 7 singles), live shows and even some films appeared in the legendary punk newspaper/fanzine, Slash between 1977 - 1981.

The best punk writing emulated the music - immediate, smart, semi-tuff, and funny...writing which sprang manifest of the sound and fury, where you take a swig of beer and light a cig after writing and/or reading it. Chris D is the perennial whip-it-out on the click-clack typewriter...and then slap it onto Kickboy Face's desk. Done! Who's next!? Chris D's Slash slashings are a master class of literature as amplifier, cranked to ten. - Thurston Moore, co-founder of Sonic Youth, Ecstatic Peace Library

Righteous dispatches from the ugly front line of L.A. punk rock in its first detonations, spewed forth by a smart, discerning artist/critic/observer with clear eyes, an honest heart, excellent taste, an appropriately bad attitude, and a very sensitive bullshit detector. In the day, Chris was one of the reasons Slash was mandatory reading every month, and here's the proof. - Chris Morris, music critic, the Los Angeles Reader (1978-96), author of Los Lobos: A Dream in Blue

...You would read Slash's reviews with pen and paper in hand to make notes about about what you absolutely needed to get. Chris made some of these records sound so essential, you would moan piteously if you discovered they were sold out...But where the writing here is at its most fevered pitch is in his live reviews...back on the East Coast, it was almost hard to believe the tales of brutal police aggro and out-of-control bands, but corroborating reports made us realize it was all true...The knee-jerk reaction we'd had towards West Coast punk dissolved when we could finally hear the records, but Chris's writing played a huge role in hipping outsiders to the actualities of the scene. - Byron Coley, co-founder/co-editor of Forced Exposure, co-founder/editor of Bull Tongue Review, writer for Arthur, Spin.


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