TOUCH AND GO MAGAZINE:  The Complete Years, by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson with Steve Miller – The complete series 1979—1983. Twenty-two issues in one loud, fast volume.

“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. Inspired by magazines such as Slash and Search and Destroy and writers like Claude Bessey and Chris DesJardines, TV and DS pumped out seventeen issues together with TV doing the last five solo. In laughably miniscule 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. Magazines like Forced Exposure and Your Flesh among others were soon inspired by T&G to fire up the Xerox machine 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 print.

Touch and Go was what it was—a naughty, irreverent bird walkin’ trip thru the punk, hardcore, industrial, and indie of the late ’70s and early ’80s. And oh what a fun trip it was!”

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In letzter Zeit häufen sich die Meldungen über Bücher, die sich mit der Punk & Hardcore Szene und deren Geschichte beschäftigen. Letztes Jahr war es das Buch “Radio Silence – A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music” von Nathan Nedorostek, das für viel Aufmerksamkeit sorgte und dieses Jahr gibt es gleich zwei neue Veröffentlichungen in dem Bereich. Da wäre zum einen “The Past The Present”, ein Buch, das die Geschichte der europäischen Straight Edge und Hardcore Szene von 1982-2007 dokumentiert und zum Anderen das Buch “Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound” von Brian Peterson( siehe Abbildung links),  welches sich der Hardcore Szene in den 90er Jahren widmet.  Nachdem Steven Blush in “American Hardcore” desöfteren erwähnt, dass für ihn Hardcore 1986 gestorben sei, zeigt Burning Fight sehr schön, dass in dem Jahr vielleicht eine wichtige Era zu Ende ging, Hardcore aber noch lange nicht tot war. Ganz im Gegenteil, der Einfluss neuer Bands brachte frischen Wind in die Szene und sorgte für eine positive Weiterentwicklung des Genres.   Rausgekommen ist das Buch bei Revelation Books, 503 Seiten, 12,80 €.

Bands, die in Burning Fight interviewt werden:

108, Avail, Burn, Cave In, Coalesce, Damnation A.D., Deadguy, Disembodied, Downcast, Earth Crisis, Endpoint, Groundwork, Guilt, Inside Out, Integrity, Los Crudos, Mouthpiece, Racetraitor, Ressurection, Rorshcach, Shelter, Spitboy, Split Lip/Chamberlain, Strife, Swing Kids, Texas Is The Reason, Threadbare, Trial, Unbroken, Undertow, Vegan Reich

Info von Revelation Books zu Burning Fight:

“Although some define hardcore as a specific sound, most believe it’s more than that; a set of varying ideas, ethics, principles, attitudes and, yes, music, that converge to form a community. “Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution In Ethics, Politics, Spirit, And Sound” by Brian Peterson provides some answers, but also brings up a whole new set of questions for those who’ve been drawn to the scene’s political, social, ethical and spiritual ideas amidst the screamed vocals and abrasive chords. “Burning Fight” features commentary from approximately 150 people involved in the nineties hardcore scene as well as oral history articles about straight edge, politics, vegetarianism and interviews with a variety of influential bands such as: Avail, Burn, Earth Crisis, Inside Out, Integrity, Los Crudos, Spitboy, Strife, Texas Is The Reason, Unbroken and more. 503 pages.”