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BIG STAR #2-3 (Buffalo, NY: August 1977-Spring 1978).
4to. 36pp. + 24pp. (incl. covers). Illustrated (incl. photos by Richard Robinson, Trudie Arguelles, and others).
The penultimate and final issues of this short-lived, Alex Chilton-inspired music magazine, established by Bernard Kugel to champion punk/new wave bands, among them Blondie, Talking Heads, the Cramps, the Damned, Flamin’ Groovies, Dead Fingers Talk, and the Ramones, all of whom feature in articles or interviews in the two issues here.
Kugel also played guitar with local band, the Good, and appeared with the Jumpers during their debut performance at Buffalo State in February 1978, later producing and releasing their debut 45 on his own Radio City label, and subsequently writing about them in Big Star’s third issue.
In the same issue, Miriam Linna contributes a column on “The New Sounds of the U.S.A.”, featuring the Real Kids, DMZ, the Fleshtones, and the Zantees, a band she later joined as drummer.
Big Star also celebrated and encouraged other fanzines, with Kugel writing in the second issue: “So do your part in seeing that rock and roll stays fresh and alive and ever changing by being the first person on your block to put out a rocknroll fanzine!!! Do it now!!!”.
Old, central vertical crease to issue #2, o/w Very Good; old price label to front cover of issue #3, o/w Very Good plus.
Price:
£125.00
