My friend Jason Diamond runs a sweet little blog by the name of Vol. 1 Brooklyn that’s mostly about writing and sometimes about music and sometimes both at the same time. One of these chocolate & peanut butter style overlaps is a recent interview conducted by zinester Aaron Lake Smith with hugely important 90s punk icon Sam McPheeters.

Sooner or later, there is going to be a definitive book on the 90’s punk rock scene, and when that time comes, there really needs to be at least a chapter on Sam McPheeters. The guy was a member of what in my mind is one of the greatest bands of all time, Born Against, then started the extremely underrated Men’s Recovery Project, ran the now defunct Vermiform Records, and he’s a great visual artist to boot (see above, Google image also is good). But the guy is also a great writer. Various articles in punk magazines, and his own zines “Error” and “Dear Jesus” serve as examples of this. To this day, I can’t remember which one of those zines he wrote the story in, but his description of some show he played where the opening acts entire set consisted of the lead singer lighting himself on fire is still one of the great zine pieces I’ve ever read, and I’ve always respected the guy.

Read the rest over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn

- The Vidiot