Here are a couple of artifacts from the Bay Area music scene in the 1980s. These are two of the earliest issues of the punk zine Maximum RockNRoll. The magazine was originally founded by Tim Yohannan, who also helped found the 924 Gilman Street club. Vol 1, issue 2 is from 1982. It features a scathing expose on the Bechtel corporation. Indicative of the amateurish feel of the underground press, at least some of its claims about what Bechtel was up to have been confirmed over time. Also included are early interviews with Husker Du and Dirk Dirksen. By issue 9, in 1983, MRR had begun it’s long time practice of focusing on the regional and international punk scenes. There is also a nice listing of what punk was being played on the radio in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Over 400 issues later, Maximum RockNRoll published its last in 2019.
Parallel Narratives 