Anecdote: Stories from the Road
Compiled and edited by Rachael Almada
(Bodach Press, $9.95, 301 pp.)
by Thomas Christian
In 1993, Rachael Almada began the Herculean task of compiling thousands of tales, half-truths, and poignant remembrances from rock’n’roll bands touring all over the planet. Six years and 4,000 letters of correspondence later, the published output is a smorgasbord of bands, stories, and anecdotes of a youthful generation chasing their dreams across the post-industrial landscape of a planet nearing its final entry of apocalypse.
Who:UK Subs, Fuck Face, Naked Aggression, Blank Expression, The Wimpy Dicks, The Jerkoffs, Ballgagger, Four, Five 0 Five, Fury 66, Blanks 77, bX7 21, Element 115.
How: Jim Beam, pints of Schnapps, cranberry-vodka, Bud on tap, Times Square Heroin, Kansas City Cocaine, Xanex, kegs and kegs of Beer.
What: Exhaustion, hunger, hung over, passing out, puking in Bridgeport, bleeding in Atlanta, diarrhea in Prague, masturbating in Pennsylvania, fist fights at the Hong Kong Cafe, heavy metal in Chippewa Falls.
Celebs: Vince Neil, Cheetah Chrome, Johnny Thunders, Ramones.
Style: Mohawks, spikes, my multi-colored hair and skinheads.