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"Pink Flag"

(LP. Harvest. 1977) [GB]

39 years ago today

X at the Moore Theatre, Washington, June 27, 1987

This zine was published by Tim Adams, later of Ajax Records (which was a label, mail order, and then a record store in Chicago fo a few years). Prior to this Tim did a zine called My Summer Vacation, which I think only lasted one issue (with a Naked Raygun interview) when he was at Notre Dame.

I believe he did 4 issues of The Pope, the first three were digest-sized and then the final issue was a fullsize on newsprint before he called it a day.

The Pope was definitely an influence on Dagger as Tim had a good, smart-assed attitude, which I tried to copy (I copied it from other zines as well, though at the time I didn't have the perspective or wit to pull it off ha ha). 

In addition, Tim and I have very similar music taste too so that always helped. As you can see on the cover, there are four heavies inside: Squirrel Bait, Killdozer, Didjits and Happy Flowers plus who can resist a pin up of GG Allin?

In addition to all of that, there's plenty of record, zine and live reviews all crammed in (he gives Dagger #1 a pretty good review). 

I love and miss the old music zine culture of the 80's, and The Pope was another favorite.