Issue 3 was issued in late 72 after a hitch hiking trip through Europe. Much of that time was taken up travelling around England, browsing record shops and attending concerts. I followed a Kinks tour beginning in London, where an old street guy covered in newspapers sitting in front of Victoria station, yelled out a me as I headed to Manchester for the second show, "There's a young lad going to Manchester to see the Kinks!" Needless to say, I was blown away and still wonder about it today. (BTW, I made a stellar recording of the show on a tape recorder in my lap, which unfortunately my pal Mark "lent" to a friend of his in Arnprior and I haven't seen it since). The Kinks shows were great and lively and I was on Cloud 9.
Another concert of note was the Mott the Hoople Hammersmith Odeon performances, which later made it to vinyl and now CD, as Mott Live. It was a great show with a climatic ending, as described in the review below. Queen opened mightily, as they were still a force touring their first album.
The Rocky Horror Show was still in its first week, had not-so-great reviews, so I got a great centre aisle seat where Frankenfurter proceeded to sit in my lap half-way through the show. It was a good show, but little could I know how it would all turn out!
A caveat. And, a big one. I had no money on my return to Ottawa so I had to mimeo the issue at the downtown free university. Not knowing what I was doing, the pages printed well for only a few hundred copies. All this is left of those initial copies, are a couple of incomplete issues with bad inking, some barely legible from the end of the run.
A note on the cover - starting with this issue, I wanted to peronalize the covers, so I stapled a clear plastic cover and painted the make up on the Dolls. The actual cover had no paint. When I completed my supply of plastic covers, I painted the makeup on each remaining paper cover.
Anyway, some legible pages have been reproduced here and others re-typed. Doesn't matter anyway, does it? As Evan Dentley incredulously exclaimed at the review of The Haunted's masterful first version of 1-2-5, "A whole page for one song?"
A side note - the back cover's inscription, "What kind of a man reads Denim Delinquent?" was etched into the
run-out groove of Morrissey's "Interesting Drug" EP. A perfect match!
Mott the Hoople Hammersmith Odeon 72
Rocky Horror Show in its infancy
Kinks 72 tour of UK