THE "STORY" AND "HISTORY" OF
NO-FI "MAGAZINE"
It's hard to go back and piece together everything from random scraps of paper here and there...some kept neatly in folders, others resting at the bottom of boxes. This section, long kept on hold due to the physical work involved in this task, will be to show you where we came from and how we got where we are now. It won't be put together in order either. This is an evolving puzzle where things will be divided chronologically, but that's not how we will be putting it together to start. So don't be suprised when we put something in 1993 and then follow it with something in 1995 or even 1991. I may add pictures to seemingly finished sections and I may even divided it into other subsections, depending on what works better. In the end I hope you laugh along with us at the many odd steps we took in getting here now.
1993
Chris Beyond's work with the band SHLUMPF
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(LEFT TO RIGHT - TOP ROW:Anti-Club Flyer, two alternate Troubadour flyers, 4 alternate Roxy flyers,
BOTTOM ROW:my Colorado Shlumpf tape cover, an unused collage for a flyer never to be, the K.N.O.W. Records mailing list)
(ADDED 11/11/04) Some of my earliest music "biz" design came from flyers I made for my friends' bands. In the begining of this part of my life, I mostly did work for the band SHLUMPF who were from Torrance, California and were the biggest band I knew from the "Southbay Scene" back then. Through them I got a minor internship with K.N.O.W. Records who were their label at the time. I went to almost every one of their shows and lead singer Jim McCray was one of my best friends. A lot of my work for them had a lot of collaged sexual imagery which I tore from a bunch of old adult magazines I found. Pretty psycho when I see it now. Anyway, I moved to Colorado for a short time in 1993 where I made my own mix of live SHLUMPF songs and demos and sold a few copies. The tease was that I used a one dollar bill in the design, but I sold each copy for 5 bucks each. I also used a fax machine to copy the covers so the quality, much like the quality of my work back then, was worse than spotty at best. Still it was because of this band that I started my first fanzine called The SHLUMPF Newzletter which was just a double sided photocopied sheet of paper handed out to friends, the band's mailing list, and at shows. Silly stuff, but it was a lot of fun at the time.
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