25¢ RAW POWER 111etal ntachine magazine N0.2 ALICE COOPER QUIET RI01" LEGS DIAMOND BACKSTAGE PASS ROCKICKS ALBUM RE''IE\VS .......--------------~--- -- - RAW POWER contet1ts 1 Letters 3 STAFF :Talk of the Town 4 Quick Draw Quiet Riot 5 & Bobalouie Alice is Back .. 6&7 ;Hollywood Hot Spots 8 Other Contributions: 'Concert Review . 9&10 Sad Sack · Album Reviews . • 11 Linda Hartman Amos Talbert Punk Puzzle . 12 Leslie Ballew INFO Send all letters and mail to: Raw Power Magazine Our ads are cheap! c/o Quick Draw Phone: 888-7205 23938 Mariano Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Raw Power Magazine is published bi-monthly by Quick Draw and Bobalouie Enterprises. Reproduction or use without permission of this is prohibited. This is the June 1977 issue. Printed in U.S.A. LETTERS To my favorite magazine: To The Infected ge~s, I read issue #1 of Raw Power So glad you liked our magazine so much. and couldn't believe what I read.at We're happy you think that we are like all! You two Mongolian Idiots have Rodney, he totally has his shit together!! got to be the most illiterate jerks Actually~ we haven't ever thought of I've ever come accross. The only being witty and we don't know what it means. difference between you and Rodney You don't have to worry because we wouldn't is that he has an excuse. ever give you a good review. Bobalouie can Haven't you ever thought of spell his name the way he wants--it's his being witty? or don't you know what name, isn't it? If you can get us a pic­ it means. ture of Joan Jett and Pat Smear sharing The only article we liked was leather unde~ants, we wouUi gladly print the review of the germs. Don't ever it. give us even the most subtle good---­ AZZ the albums we forgot to review review. The one thing we don't were not current, and we would never review want is people like you saying good the Grateful Dead. (I thought you were things about us. punks!) To the Pinhead that always gets One thing I'll say is your letter is second billing: you're spelling very funny and we hope to get more letters your name WRONG. BAbalouie with from you in the future. an A, you metal machine moron. Next issue we want a centerfold Love and kisses from Raw Power~ and an article on why the germs are Quick Dra;;J and Bobalouie gonna kick your fuckin' asses. Listen fellahs, where's the T Recently I came across the name & A in this trashy little tort of a of your fanzine through Bomp News­ Xerox machine? How about a picture letter (#15). It's about time of Joan Jett and Pat Smear sharing 'zines start coming out here in the leather underpants. West. Besides "Back Door Man" and You forgot to review the new "Street Life" there ain't any big LP's by Deep Purple, Grand Funk, 'zines out here. So I'm all for Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, B.O.C. 'zines out here (oops, forgot Bomp, and Grateful Dead along with your too} • B.T.O. & Black Sabbath. And there The main reason I'm sending this is no such label as Elektric, its letter is to inquire on how to get a Elektra (shit!}. Now you've got me sample issue. What's the cost? etc. worrying about how you're gonna I'm serious about it so don't think evenly divide that quarter you this is some dumb ass letter. I'm made from the mag that you must have quite interested in gettine 'zines sold somewhere. 'cause the Big Rock rock mags (Circus, To make a long letter short, Rolling Stone, etc.} are for shit. I 1 "You're Fuckin' Stupid!" (Sorry think the fanzines are the heart of we made you cry.} Spam on ya!!! rock. Thanx for reading this. 1 1 I Love and kisses from all of us: Bob Soderberg ! Bobby Pyn, Pat Smear, Lorna Doom and Los Angeles I I Donna Rhia, a.k.a. The germs (with I a small 'g'). Bob: I P.S. Thanks for the ride. To get an issue of Raw Power, send a quarter and a stamp to the address on page P.s.s. Who is the one who knows 2. ho\\' to type? Let's see you print ·this. 3 '\ I ITALK OF THE TO\VN By Quick Draw Phil Lynott is going to have it that they were dropped from A & M his second volume of writings avail­ partly because there was pressure able by early summer. Lynott is from the likes of Peter Frampton, also at work on his first solo Rick Wakeman and the Carpenters. The album, which may include Brian May band was with the label for less than and Phil Collins ... Ted Nugent's a week. The Pistols' controversy is latest work should be released this hitting a lot of new wave bands who month. Ted will sing some lead, are finding it harder to find places and Boz Burrell will do some backup to play. Even Lou Reed was banned vocals • . The Rolling Stones have from the London Palladium . The signed with EMI to do six more Screamers have been in town and albums. Before the stones do any­ played their first time in L.A. at thing they must finish their current a private party thrown by Slash maga­ contract and release a double live zine . Rodney Bingenheimer is album •.. Aerosmith has been going to cut a single called "Let's working on their new album which Just Be Friends." He is working should be released in June. Joe with Dan and Dave Kessel ... Perry has been at work co-producing Recently Jimmy Page said he thinks a solo album by David Johansen . the Damnea are br1Iliant and are far While the Runaways left for Asia, a ahead of other New Wave bands. new girls' band Backstage Pass has hit the L.A. scene, playing their first gig at the Roman Inn in Santa Monica. The place has a 500 capa­ city and 1,000 people showed up. Many were turned away, but some L.A. r,·""e.s ~ managed to get in, and the place "NEW WAVE" SOUNDS: *Speaking of punk-rock, Greg was quite packed. The girls were Shaw's Bomp Records shop in North Hollywood is a vir­ a little nervous with the huge crowd tual candy store for anyohe interest in "new wave" pop. and all, but fared well. Quiet Riot "New wave" is the label many punk-rock proponents pre­ closed the set and were fantastic fer. Rather than the usualri'op 40 product, Bomp special­ izes in records by English and American new. wave acts . It looks like the end is near (from the Damned to the Ramones) and key releases by for Montrose, one of the hottest · older artists (Bowie to Presley) who helped influence the bands of the 70's. Vocalist Bob ·.new crop. James has quit the group and guitar- A sample oddity is the "Punk-a-Rama" single by Kim Fowley's short-lived Venus & the Razorblades group. Of 1S~_Ronnie Montrose has been playing special interest is the record's flip-side. Titled "Press Con­ on stage with Sammy Hauger lately ference," it's a loosely organized conversation between . • • Elektra records has re-released Fowley and band members over why the group broke up. Iggy Pop's first two albums "The That must be an industry first. You can also find at Bomp such novelties as an LP based on a 1975 Presley press con- Stooges" and "Funhouse," in Europe. ference backstage in Vancouver, B.C. You can find them in most record Shaw is a rock historian and critic whose Bomp maga- stores that carry imports • • • The 1 zine and newsletter help chart the new wave sounds and Sex Pistols have finally got a :report in loving detail on some major '50s and '60s rock fig­ , ures. Bomp magazine has often been cited as a primary British label. The group's contract • catalyst in the. rise of "fanazines." (The name-a combina- has been picked up by Virgin Records tion of fanatic and magazine-has been given to the hun- who have many progressive rock acts 1 dreds of mostly informal publications that feature passion­ like Tangerine Dream and Michael . ate coverage of either an area of rock or specific artists Oldfield among others. A spoKesman . like Bob Dylan or the Beach Boys.) Several of them, from f L.A.'s Back Door Man t.o New York's Rocker, are carried I ; for the band said a single No Future at Bomp, which is open from noon to 5 p.m. daily at 5320lh 'I I ·(God Save the Queen) will be out in , Laurel Canyon Blvd. The store's unofficial motto: "Stamp England in a few weeks. There are Out Disco in Our Lifetime." I no plans for a tour yet. Rumor has ,, , I 1---~--------------------------t------:1! 4 I, QUIET RIOT By Quick Draw Quiet Riot is a band that very One was with Casablanca which fell little has been written about, but through because of business hassles. in my opinion they are the best Then they signed with Budda and were· band playing the L.A. circuit right 3/4 of the way done with the album now; and if you haven't seen them when the checks bounced.