“We thought LUST FOR LIFE would come out and knock the world backward; we were wrong. It was kind of like working on FUN HOUSE. That was a great album…people hated it.” – Iggy Pop (From a 1977 interview with Search & Destroy’s Lynn X.)
San Francisco Punk
Dead Kennedys Shut Down the Island (1983)
The Dead Kennedys headlined the last show at the Island in Houston on May 14, 1983.
According to “A History of Houston Punk Rock Fanzines” by Henry “Wild Dog” Weissborn, which was published in PUNX, the Island officially closed in April 1983.
(Flyer designed by Tom Bunch; courtesy of Wild Dog Archives.)
Beat Generation Meets Punk: San Francisco’s Search & Destroy (1977)
V. Vale’s inaugural issue of San Francisco punk zine, SEARCH & DESTROY, originally funded by beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. (No. 1, 1977) takes its moniker from a Stooges song and features a “Basic Iggy Pop Bio”:
“Iggy Pop’s legend is one of the crucial cornerstones of rock & roll lore. It began when his Ann Arbor band, The Stooges, debuted on Halloween, 1967, chopping flower power down at the root.”
The full run, Nos. 1-11, can be accessed in the private archives of Henry “Wild Dog” Weissborn.
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