Abramson Todd (3 results)

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. Pp. 50 including covers. Illustrated with black & white photographs and a few comics. Bound in paper wrappers saddle-stapled with black & white photographs on covers. Only minor rubbing to corners. Todd-o-phonic Todd's Kicks!-like fanzine, chock-a-block full of the best of no-brow culture. This premier issue featuring articles or interviews with Richard and the Young Lions, The Myddle Class, Lindy Blaskey, and The Trashmen. Rear cover promoting The Myddle Class in concert. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Printed wrappers saddle-stapled.

31, [1]p., illustrations (black and white), wraps. Cover edges toned; small scrape at foot of front cover. Very Good. Punk and power pop fanzine, with stories on Roky Erickson (of 13th Floor Elevators fame, but here discussed with his new band, the Aliens), Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Flamin' Groovies, the dB's, among others. Closes with Abramson's LP wants list. Abramson worked at the Hoboken club Maxwell's and was a radio DJ at WFMU.

An early New Jersey "punk" and rock and roll zine, assembled by Todd Abramson who at one time was a partner in running Hoboken, New Jersey's infamous music club Maxwell's. This publication captures the spirit of the up-and-coming East Coast punk scene with bands like Romantics, Flamin' Groovies, Fleshtones, The Zantees, and Roky Erickson. Most of these bands were the foundational freakbeat and garage rock crossover acts whose emergence coincided with the rise of the power chord punk sound. This issue features a story on Johnathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers and news about the recent breakdown of The Dictators. A typed letter signed (TLS) by Abramson in 1979 to a potential distributor is laid in. Standard A4 format (8 1/2" x 11"), 30 p. with numerous black-and-white illustrations. Photomechanically reproduced and bound with two staples in the original pictorial paper wrappers, which are a bit toned, more so along the extremities; else very good.