Kevin Ring’s Beat Scene magazine is a treasure for Bukowski and Beat fans alike. I’m in the “never the twain shall meet” camp, but in this case the exception is deserved. Plus, Kevin’s a good guy who put a lot of work and high production value into each issue of the magazine.
Published in May 1991, Beat Scene 12 is a great early issue. For Bukowski fans, this issuei came with a flexi disc featuring two poems from Charles Bukowski’s Reading in Hamburg, Germany on May 5, 1978:
- Love & Fame & Death
- I’ve Always Had Trouble With Money
The issue also includes three first appearance Bukowski poems:
There is also a review of Neeli's Bukowski biography, Hank.
Full contents:
3.......Jim Morrison/The Doors
4.......Michael McClure interview
10....Charles Plymell
12....Gary Snyder
16....Georges Bataille
19....Charles Bukowski
24....Ken Kesey
26....Gargoyle
28....A. D. Winans
30....Slim Gaillard
33....Nathaniel Tarn
34....William Burroughs
36....Jack Kerouac
39....Coltrane/Gordon/Davis
40....Paul Bowles
42....Hunter S. Thompson
44....Talking Jazz
45....Jazz West Coast
46....San Francisco Renaissance
About seven of the pages in the magazine have tears that look like they were from a production issue. See Hunter S. Thompson photo. Otherwise, Near Fine.
I don’t have the experience to grade records, but if this copy were a book, I’d rate it Near-Fine.
It's rare to find both the magazine and flexi disc together.
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