My next installment of what will eventually be the full set of archives.
The was the first Pocket Pig issue, with each page sized at 4-1/2 by 11. There is a piece on Elvis Presley as the cover would suggest. There is a centrefold picture of Chuck Berry. There is an interview with Jayne County. And loads of gossip. The issue came out on January 1980.
My next installment of what will eventually be the full set of archives.
This issue of the Pig Paper came out March 1979 and features the Ugly Ducklings and punk gossip in Toronto. More…
My next installment of what will eventually be the full set of archives.
This issue came out in February 1979 and has the piece with the Diodes getting fired by CBS! More…
Issue 10 came out in December 1978. the cover story is of the Dave Clark Five, Inside there are pieces on the Verbs, the Rich Kids, Television, the Modern Lovers, the Viletones, the Dishes, the Boston music scene, and the L.A. music scene. There are photos of the Diodes with the Clash, David Byrne, Dave Thomas, and the Secrets.
Interviews with John Lydon and Generation X, articles on Suicide, Buddy Holly, and Destroy All Monsters, “Pig Toronto Punk Discography,” Bill McAvory on the Ugly Ducklings, Edgar Breau plays “Blindate,” plus record reviews of David Johansen, Wild Man Fischer, Blondie, Mink DeVille, the Paley Brothers, Tom Petty, the Romantics, Television, Soft Boys, Ringo Starr, Ian Dury, and many more. More…
Interviews with Elvis Costello and The Viletones, The Forgotten Rebels’ Fan Mail, Jeremy Gluck’s “Stupid Songs I Have Known,” The Runaways at the El Mocambo, The Diodes in New York City, Bill McAvory’s first Classic Canada column, “Pig Punk Part 4” (Blue Reimondos, Jumpers, The Good), plus record reviews of the Heartbreakers, The Monkees, Rich Kids, Damned, Eric Burdon, The Rutles, and many more. More…
Interviews with The Hollies, Eddie and the Hot Rods and the Boyfriends, articles on Tommy Ramone, Freddie and the Dreamers and the Vibrators, the first “Pigallery” photo spread, “Pig Punk Part Three” (Dole-Q, The Ugly, Afrika Korps, The Poles, Stanley Frank), plus record reviews of Iggy Pop, XTC, the Dead Boys, Bay City Rollers, Suicide, Dwight Twilley Band, X-Ray Spex, and many more.
First, though, is a scan (alongside a vintage Simply Saucer poster) of the first-ever mainstream press coverage for The Pig Paper, which appeared on March 21, 1978
in the Ottawa (Canada) Citizen newspaper. More…
Interviews with Talking Heads and Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, a report on the Toronto “Outrage” concert, “Marc Bolan Is Dead” obituary, “Pig Punk Part Two” (The Dishes, Loved Ones, Concordes, Headache, Diodes), the first “Pigossip” column, “More True Kink Konfessions” (from the proposed Pig Paper # 4), plus record reviews of the Alan Parsons Project, Viletones, Sex Pistols, Rattles, Dishes, 24 Original Happening Hits, Nick Lowe, and the New Legion Rock Spectacular.
First, though, is a “pigsclusive” photo sent to me by Gary Pig Gold to include in this issue. In this picture is Gary Pig Gold along with Dennis Wilson from the Beach Boys. This was taken during the interview for The Pig Paper, Issue No. 06, on the afternoon of August 29, 1977, after the Canadian release party for his “Pacific Ocean Blue” album, held at Round Records in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Note copy of The Pig Paper, Issue No. 05, in Dennis’ hand (issue was colorized to the original color). More…
An interview with The Ramones (conducted at their June 18, 1977 Toronto performance and party afterwards), an article/discography on the Australian band The Saints, Rock Serling’s first “Delete Zone” column, the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy In Canada,” “Elvis Is Dead” obituary, Pig Paper photographer Johnny Pig’s run-in with Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott, “Pig Punk Part One” (Teenage Head, Simply Saucer, The Viletones, Battered Wives and The Curse) plus record reviews of the Saints’ (I’m) Stranded, The Beach Boys Love You and Surfin’ With The Viletones. More…
I am finding other items from The Pig Paper, which are non-edition specific. As I receive or find, I will post. Here are a few items. Thanks, Gary, for sending me these! More…
Publication date unknown. This is a photocopy of August 1975 correspondence from Gary Pig Gold to Doug “Rock Serling” Pelton. More…
This issue of the Pig Paper came out in April 1977 and was a Kinks appreciation issue. This issue sees Edgar Breau expressing his love for the Kinks. The “True Kink Konfessions” of Simply Saucer’s Edgar Breau, distributed free-of-charge to concert-goers when The Kinks played Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on April 29, 1977. This was also the first Pig Paper made available outside of Canada (at the Kinks’ show in Buffalo, NY, the following evening, as well as during their in-store appearance at Buffalo’s Record Theatre the day after that). More…
This was a follow up to the Who issue and came out in October 1976 almost a year later. A small literary “coda” and update on The Who, inserted into reprints of Pig Paper 1 and again sold outside Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens when the band returned there on October 21, 1976 (coincidentally, Keith Moon’s final public performance with the band). More…
