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Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79 '83 Paperback – June 30, 2010

by Tesco Vee (Author), Dave Stimson (Author), Steve Miller (Editor),

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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.

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“I was inspired by how fearless and together Touch and Go were. They were really wild and extremely funny.”—Henry Rollins

“It was really one of the first times anyone outside of Washington really paid us any mind. The fact that Touch and Go took an interest in us really blew us away.”—Ian MacKaye, Minor Threat

“Creem may have taught me how to p*ss, but Touch and Go taught me how to sh*t. I owe my career to that magazine.”—John Brannon, Negative Approach

"Easily one of the best hardcore reads you’ll ever sink your fangs into...enthralling."—Montreal Mirror

"As a hardcore punk primer you couldn't do better."—Time Out Chicago

“Anyone who’s ever published a true DIY fanzine owes at least a small debt to
Touch and Go.”—Decibel

“If you have any interest at all in hardcore punk or being rude, you need this.”—Austin American-Statesman, Summer Reading Picks

"One massive volume for all your punk-rock nostalgia and/or historical research needs"—The Onion AV Club

"Touch and Go was an essential primer for budding punk kids looking for the next great hardcore band and punk rock wouldn't be the same without it."—Portland Mercury

"Slapdash, ornery, and entertaining"—Popmatters

"Influential"—Village Voice, Voice Picks

"Essential”—Washington Post Express

"Lots of energy gets captured in this handsome, perfectbound volume, down to the original, frenetic cut-and-paste layouts."—Detroit Metro-Times

"Bazillion Points has done the world the great service of collecting Touch and Go’s entire four-year, 22-issue run in a handsome paperback. The zine eventually expanded from its initial 14-page format to include other writers and interviews, and even ended up printing color covers towards the end. Through it all, Vee and Stimson never wavered from their irascible bent, and now it’s been preserved in these 570-odd pages. Though rendered with DIY technique, T&G never applied the kind of dogmatic blinders of, say, Maximumrocknroll, instead never hesitating to sing the praises of any band they found boundary pushing and/or simply appealing. (U2’s Boy gets a thumbs-up.) They also had a penchant for a little bathroom humor, which seems extreme by today’s PC punk standards, but somehow also incredibly cheeky. For the four years of its existence, Touch and Go was the documentation of all that mattered in music, uninfluenced by anything other than its publishers’ own inclinations." —Stephen Slaybaugh, The Agit Reader

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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 todays 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 Ideaand all the other punks worth their weight in glorious black and white

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bazillion Points; First edition (June 30, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0979616387
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0979616389
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.25 x 11 inches

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Steve Miller is an author and journalist whose works include Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock 'n' Roll in America's Loudest City and Murder in Grosse Pointe Park: Privilege, Adultery, and the Killing of Jane Bashara. He is the editor of Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone.
After spending 12 years as an indie musician, Miller began his journalism career as a courts and cops reporter at the Dallas Morning News and as a national reporter at the Washington Times. He has worked as a national correspondent for The Daily Beast, People magazine, High Times, U.S. News and World Report, Real Clear Investigations and several alternative weeklies including Houston Press and Miami New Times.
Miller has appeared on ABC's 20/20 and several episodes of Investigation Discovery.
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Tesco Vee is a King Daddy and the reason we are here. He is the voice of the Meatmen and the creator of Touch and Go magazine. He may have created the Earth, but we're not positive. Dave Stimson still cracks wise and dry. He quietly remains one of the top musicologists in the nation, but during 1979 to 1982, his literary haymakers landed loudly on the jawbone of the music industry.
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Fangzine

Got this for the Misfits mainly

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 27, 2018

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I like this format and wish more old school zines would put out their own collection in a similar way. I bought this mainly to harvest Misfits reviews of singles and shows. It didn't really disappoint and got a couple photos I hadn't seen before - one of Jerry in the Bookies 870 interview, and one of Glenn from '81 (looks like a Chase Park). There is also the Doyle cover which is cool - I had seen the original pic before. Along with the Misfits I also like the Necros, Negative Approach and Black Flag - along with a lot of other hardcore bands. The editorial is rather juvenile, with a lot of references to pooping pants and so forth, but I find it amusing.

Another interesting aspect is how taken Tesco is with the early thrash/black metal band Venom. He praises very highly Welcome to Hell, Bloodlust/In Nomine Satanas and Black Metal. There is a Venom review of a live show where the opening act is Metallica. Amusingly Tesco says that the opening band had some good riffs but that the pantywaist singer wasn't any good (James Hetfield)!! At this early date James was using a higher pitch singing voice - so the review isn't surprising.

I also plan on using this book to find more hardcore and punk that I haven't heard before (The Fix, Flesheaters, etc.) But NOT T.S.O.L.!!!

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Erik D. Hilsinger

More than meatmen, its a trip back in time.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 23, 2014

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Made me feel awkward and embarassed just like I was in the early 1980s when this was happening. Meatmen lead singer and his buddies fanzine took me back to when the rebellious fraction was reaching out using new media and technology to spread the virus of culture. And to think it began in Lansing, MI.

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Very cool!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 4, 2013

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I really enjoyed this complete edition of the T&G zine that I never got to explore as I was not old enough. It is great to have the entire collection in one book with awesome reviews, commentary, pictures and so much more. If you are a fan of music and most importantly, hardcore, punk, etc.....this should be in your collection.

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J. Harper

This is a really fun read. And a great look into very important ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2014

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This is a really fun read. And a great look into very important moments that still influence a lot of music that we listen to today.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2010

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To have all the issues of Touch and Go in their original form compiled into a single beautifully bound book is a godsend. I can not recommend this book enough. 576 pages of punk rock bliss.

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mitzie velez

Five Stars

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Great!

"Where Hardcore Doesn't Mean Pornography" (usually)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 7, 2010

This is an enjoyable tribute to what used to be the underground, before even alternative or college rock was coined, three decades ago. It's a hefty read, but conveniently assembled and longer lasting than aging newsprint. It's handsomely produced and sturdy, if heavy, to hold.

Tesco Vee of the Meatmen teamed up with Dave Stimson in Ann Arbor to produce this slapdash, ornery, and entertaining fanzine. Cutting and pasting their typed reviews, concert flyers, salacious photos, found art, and random scrawls, they photocopied twenty-two issues. They surveyed the gloom of post-punk, they ridiculed the neon of the new wave. They insulted (TSOL, GG Allin, sometimes Fear) or celebrated (local groups The Fix, Necros, and, surprise, The Meatmen) those claiming to be hardcore.

Wit wriggles into many reviews. Two entries cited in their entirety show a pithy style perfected. Stimson sums up "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats. "The little California miss could've done us all a favor had she taken her shooting spree to the Ensign studio when this grandiose piece of schmaltz was recorded." His soundbite on the LP "Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls": "(forgot the label) I bought it. I sold it. What more do you need to know?"

Scatology scatters over nearly every page. A frustrated, lonely, adolescent mentality lingers. Its slogan: "Where hardcore doesn't mean pornography." Fecal fixation, erectile fascination, naughty peeps, and homophobic taunts fills margins. Two cartoon balloons appear over a tiny photo of two conversing celebrities. John Lennon is made to ask: "So, what's it like being black?" Muhammed Ali finds himself responding: "Better than being dead."

This sophomoric reaction to convention conveys T&G's reaction to the usual media coverage of the angry, lonely fans of musicians hyped, caricatured, or dismissed. The fanzine champions albums such as Gypsy Blood from Doll by Doll, 154 by Wire, Seventeen Seconds by The Cure, and Hypnotised by The Undertones. It documents how the nascent alternative category widened. Later issues discuss Big Country, Cocteau Twins, Motorhead, and a metal band, Venom.

Presciently, the critics pan such leaden tunes as "Punk's Not Dead" by The Exploited. Tesco praises 999. They despise a Midwestern mentality whose biggest contribution to the new music is "What I Like About You" by The Romantics. Oddly, Cleveland and Minneapolis bands seem overlooked; perhaps the decline of the Ohio scene and the delay in the rise of the Twin Cities one may account for this omission. Or it may be plucky rivalry between Ann Arbor and the rest of the country.

They analyze the promise and the flaws within October by U2: "Soothing harmonies. I'm sure they feel as noble as they look on the cover...but there is something about their clinical and smug approach that really bothers." They warn against the otherwise forgotten group Chronic Generation. "Crutches couldn't help this band, their s[--]t's that lame."

The edition opens with testimonials by scenesters, writers such as Byron Coley, and punks themselves. Keith Morris of Circle Jerks, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat, and Henry Rollins of Black Flag praise the fanaticism that fills these pages, edited by Steve Miller, whom I presume is not the Gangster of Love. Let the final word be a stray phrase from here, as hardcore in the early 1980s became as conformist and commodified as previous cultural and musical rebellions. "We are the hippies of tomorrow."

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Chris Steel

Cracking Read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 19, 2014

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Just a fantastic read. Well worth a look if you have from a passing interest, to an obsession with the hardcore punk of old. (Well, the early 80's anyway...) Get it now! Cracking Read

Teresa Stevens

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 16, 2015

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Perfect gift for my son

Ralf K Berlin

Old-School-Katalog....

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on March 8, 2011

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Nun gut, ich dachte schon im Vorfeld wenn wirklich alle Ausgaben vom Touch and Go Fanzine in einem Buch versammelt sind dann wird es wahrscheinlich kein klitzekleines Taschenbuch sein welches da ins Haus hinein schneit, aber von dem Din-A-4-großen dicken Katalog bin ich schon schwer begeistert auch wenn ich nicht immer unbedingt konform mit der Meinung der Autoren gehe...es war eine andere Zeit und es ist spannend die engagierten Berichte und Reviews zu lesen...und besonders freue ich mich über eins: als ich ein kleiner Junge war hatte ich ein katholisches Gebetbuch wo die vielen vielen Seiten GOLD eingefärbt waren am Rand...hier sind die viel größeren Seiten SCHWARZ eingefärbt..... :oP Schön, schön....aber nicht nur deshalb...dieses Buch ist eine Fundgrube für Menschen welche die Anfänge der HC-Szene erforschen wollen....wirklich tolle Sache...

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