Los Angeles: Slash, Publisher, 1980. Tabloid. Very Good. Item #012278
ISBN: noisbn

Newspaper tabloid format. 44 pp, including covers. Black and white photos throughout. Approximately 15 by 11 ¾ inches. Slash Magazine was a Los Angeles based fanzine, published from 1977-1980, and from which the record label Slash Records grew (Triggs, p. 66). Claude Bessy, a senior editor at Slash stated 'It started as a bluff, we were pretending there was an L.A. scene when there was no scene whatsoever. The magazine was it.' (Berniere and Primois p. 219). Featuring a piece on The Jam, Lydia Lunch and 8 Eyed Spy, Johanna Went, news on various events in the punk world, etc. VERY GOOD condition. Minor to moderate uneven browning to the paper. Very faint horizontal fold crease present. A few small chips and tears along the extremities.

Price: $70.00