WHERE THE WILD GIGS WERE: A Trip Through America's Underground Music Venues BOOK

As part of our quest to enter every item in the store into our website, it's time to focus on books! It's Saturday night and of course you're curled up on the couch, reading the liner notes of your latest vinyl purchase... Have we got some cracking titles to share with you - none of which are easy to source (and cost a heap to land).

First edition of 500 copies. 235 pages, paperback.

By Tim Hinely and friends. Includes a foreword by Byron Coley and an afterword by Tesco Vee.

When Tim from Dagger zine approached us about his book idea covering long-loved "spaces" held sacred for countless music fans, we knew it was a great project to get behind, Similar in its community effort to our last book release (The White Label Promo Preservation Society), Hinely organized an incredible list of contributors from all stripes of the underground music spectrum, each waxing their own warm recollections of wild nights seeing life-changing bands and/or terrible bathroom experiences.

Chock full of photos, original newspaper ads, flyers, and long-lost monthly calendars of the pre-Internet age, WHERE THE WILD GIGS WERE illustrates how important these sacred spaces really are, and how much it's noticable when we can't actually be AT these homes-away-from-home, spread all across the USA. From Stache's in Columbus, OH to Flynn's Ocean 71 in Miami, FL (the 'CBGB's on the beach'), back to The Brewery in Lansing MI (complete with previously unpublished Stooges photos!), to City Gardens in Trenton, NJ (staffed by Comedy Central's Jon Stewart) to Peter Aaron's sordid details on the mob-run Jockey Club in Newport, KY, you won't find many dull moments as each page bleeds into the next, oozing with recollections of blurry good times and endless excitement before the world changed, as we know it.