Tuesday, March 24, 2009

#4 - Released in January 2008

I put this together right before I went on my second US tour with Reign Supreme. This tour spanned all over the states, Mexico and Canada. All the copies were sold on tour i believe, but i could be wrong. I believe there was 150 or 200 in all. I made 50 copies that i numbered for "operation beatdown" fest in Moscow, Russia. This was a fest that i went with CDC to...all expenses paid. it was crazy. but yeah, i definitely sold like 2 zines at the fest, haha. the rest were sold on later tours with Reign Supreme and random Leavenworth/Nutbox shows. This is also when i started charging $2 for each copy because staples raised their copy price from 6 cents to 8 cents per copy, making the production cost $1.60 an issue. so this is where i became an asshole and started "turning a profit".





















#3 - Released in June 2007

I had been working on this issue when a friend of ours in the Lansdale area had a very unfortunate thing happen to him. This is further explained in the issue, but i basically made 50 copies of this zine and did my best to sell them for $5 each, because i thought for some reason people would be willing to shell out the extra money to help a friend out. Some people did, and that rules, but most people ended up getting them for free or a dollar or something because i have a problem with saying "no". I made a bunch (maybe 20) of copies with white covers that i gave to the bands i reviewed and what not, so there is probably like 70-75 of these floating around in total. I really wanted to have this ready for Palehorse's Euro tour, but i didn't. Most of these were sold at various shows Palehorse played in New England and random philly-area shows.





















#2 - Released in November 2006

A lot happened in the summer of 2006 between this issue and the first one. I joined Palehorse and started touring pretty much full-time so it was a while before i got around to making this issue. After our tour with Now Soldiers and Suffocate Faster, i had about 2 weeks off and threw this together. I had moved back home and quit my job, so money was a bit tighter than before. This sucked because this is when staples decided to alter their copy center into a scam-proof facility...so i actually had to pay the $1.20 for every copy i made. I sold them for $1 each. i'm an idiot/too punk for my own good so i didn't even care that i was losing 20 cents an issue. represent. In November/December we were on tour with Recon for over a month, then after the holidays we left for another month with Folsom and Fight Like Hell (probably my favorite tour i've done). Most of the copies of these issues were distributed on these 2 tours which spanned all over the US and Mexico. i don't remember how many i made.