When there's a lot of time on your hands, you can do a lot of digging - in this particular case, some of the stuff I did 'in the Good Times'. I jumped on the zine train also in the 90s and got 4 issues out before it came to an end; not so much 'jumped off the train' as 'the train just slowly petered out and stopped'
The previous 3 issues were done the Old Skool Way; paper, scissors and gluestick/rubber cement. When I got to issue 4, I had a MacBook. Pagemaker and a b/w hand scanner bought off of eBay. It's a bit more cleaner looking, though I did attempt to keep an assembled feel to it. It's the one issue that will end up 'lost' once the physical copies disappear - the file for this was on floppy disk, if it hasn't been accidentally wiped by now and the MacBook that had that version of Pagemaker has long been sold.
There were grandiose plans in those days, as there was originally intended to be a 2nd volume with other bands - never got to talk to them (Paula Frazer, disappointedly) and by this time, I had relocated back to the Midwest - I squeezed in most of these during a brief period of time when I came back to get stuff out of storage and transport it to KS.
Still proud of these interviews, esp. Carrie Bradley's. And for fans of early 90s SF music, this is a reminder of good times. At some point, I probably should do an addendum "Where Are They NOW' posting.
The other 3 MIMEZINE issues will pop up over the next couple of months, once I get to scanning them. The first issue had interviews with Ed's Redeeming Qualities and The Buckets; Issues 2 and 3 went into other areas, but there's a little bit of music content in those as well.
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