Category: Print

Reviews: Art Books, Music Books, Print, Skateboarding Books

Fuck You Heroes. Photographs 1976-1991 Fuck You Too: The Extras + More Scrapbook. By Glen E. Friedman Burning Flag Press Copyright Date:1993, 1996 Review Date: 1998 If you’re gonna shell out for these books you should spend the extra dough for the hardcover. Not that these are coffee table fodder, it’s just that they’ll probably […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 16th, 1998

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

“England’s Dreaming. Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond.” is the full title of this longwinded analysis of the circumstances that led to birth of Punk with the Sex Pistols as the main focus. The first time I read this book I thought it was an over-intellectualized semi-masturbatory thesis paper as written by someone who […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 11th, 1998

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

Edited by F-Stop Fitzgerald, Written by Marian Kester. The unauthorized version? How about the unfufilled version? The first edition came out in 1983, with another published in 1990. This one is so thin that the other two must have been a joke. I can’t see the point in publishing it. What little content present is […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 11th, 1998

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

This liitle (approx 4″ x 6″) hardcover is a part of the “Modern Icons” series brought to you by Richard Branson’s Virgin Publishing. Other artists in the series include Bob Marley, Kiss, and Led Zepplin. Basicly, these are impulse buy items targeted at middle class disposable incom. You’ve got your introduction, pros and cons, timeline, […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 11th, 1998

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Reviews: Art Books, Print

The scenario so far… An intelligent young man leaves home to pursue higher education. He returns a changed man, gradually becoming disillusioned with the trappings of a high-tech society that seems to be in the early stages of cataloging and dehumanizing it’s members in order to fufill the laws of supply and demand. He moves […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 11th, 1998

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

Denis O’Regan Castle Communications PLC. Copyrigth Date: 1996 Review Date: 1998 It seems like everybody and their brother is cleaning out the attic and cranking out a book of punk photography. Punk spunk, banana-funk. Who cares? My first reaction to this book was not favorable. It looks cheap, it’s got cheesy type, and the title […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on June 27th, 1998

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

Of course there are two other authors credited in this, the tale of Johnny Rotten, superstar and giant among men. It’s a fair guess that the first guy drowned in bs so they had to bring in another guy to fill the void. If you can get past the stories of how Johnny Rotten practically […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 11th, 1997

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