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SEARCH & DESTROY: New Wave Cultural Research #1-11 (SF: 1977-1979) - all published.
Ed. V. Vale. Tabloid newspaper format, folded, as issued. Each 12pp.-24pp. Illustrated throughout. All original printings, including the first state of the first issue.
Vale, then working at City Lights, started work on Search & Destroy in January 1977 with the help of a few hundred dollars from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. His intention was to provide a voice for the punk movement (a “total cultural revolt”), and the photography and in-depth interviews he featured in it helped fuel a resurgent counterculture in San Francisco.
Interviewees include: Crime; the Avengers; the Ramones; the Clash; Devo; Tom Verlaine; Alternative TV; the Damned; Blondie; the Weirdos; Iggy Pop; Jordan; Patti Smith; the Dead Boys; Metal Urbain; Helen Wheels; the Screamers; Nico; Suicide; Talking Heads; the Nuns; Negative Trend; Buzzcocks; Pere Ubu; the Mutants; the Sleepers; John Waters; DNA; Roky Erickson; the Zeros; the Dils; the Cramps; Siouxsie & The Banshees; Chrome; Patti Palladin; Syl Sylvain; Dead Kennedys; David Lynch; Steve Jones; Russ Meyer; William Burroughs; JG Ballard; and Genesis P-Orridge (who tells Jon Savage in the ‘Industrial Issue’ #6 that his decision to move away from the art world and towards music was based on advice given by his mother).
Light age-toning to newsprint, o/w all issues Near Fine.