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Tell us about Gulcher Magazine… How did it all start?
My first trip away from Alabama on my own was in the summer of 1974. I was not quite 17 years old and had dropped out of high school earlier that year. I hated school, and my parents didn’t stop me. Bob Richert and Ken Highland came down from Bloomington, Indiana, to pick me up and then drive back to hang out with them. Bob was about ten years older than us and had started a fanzine in 1973 called Beyond Our Control in Bloomington. Ken and I both wrote for it. Ken was a year older than me, and when we started corresponding in 1972, we were both still in high school. He was in upstate New York in the small city of Brockport. He had a fanzine called Rock On! along with another student from their high school. I wrote for a couple issues of that zine too. After Ken graduated in 1974, he hitchhiked to Bloomington. So we all hung out in B-town for a week or so. Another fanzine writer Bob Morris hitched in from Michigan to hang. Ken, Bob Morris, and I then hitched to Chicago to meet up with some other writers. We almost had a little traveling fanzine convention, which had been a fantasy of mine—to actually meet some of these writers I knew through the mail. Anyway, a year after all this happened, I returned to B-town. Ken was now living there. I went up specifically to edit the first issue of Gulcher (#0). That was the summer of 1975, and we had subtitles on the cover that read “Search & Destroy!” and “The PunkSheet” (a reference to the WIUS TipSheet, an earlier college-radio zine Richert did). We put the MC5 on the cover. Contributors included Lester Bangs, Richard Meltzer, Metal Mike Saunders (later of the Angry Samoans), and edited letters to me from Cub Koda (Brownsville Station). Ken and I did a long, in-depth review of the first Dictators LP. I was excited when that first Gulcher came out—it brought together most of the stuff I cared about at the time. I heard through the grapevine that Lester Bangs raved about it to people, saying it was what Creem should be!
Check out the entire extensive interview with founding Gizmos member Eddie Flowers at It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine!!
www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2023/05/the-gizmos-eddie-flowers-interview.html
Includes unlimited streaming of
The Gizmos: Raw '76/'77
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Krazee Ken Highland 1973/1975 –
It Was 50 Years Ago Today...
Krazee Ken Highland
$12 USD
Gulcher Magazine--All Seven Issues [digital editions]
$50 USD
Gulcher Magazine #1 [digital edition]
$12 USD
Gulcher Magazine #2 [digital edition]
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Gulcher Magazine #3 [digital edition]
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Gulcher Magazine #3 [original print edition!!]
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Gulcher Magazine #4 [digital edition]
$12 USD
Gulcher Magazine #4 [original print edition!!]
$100 USD
Gulcher Magazine #5 [digital edition]
$12 USD
Gulcher Magazine #5 [original print edition!!]
$50 USD
Gulcher Magazine #6 [digital edition]
$12 USD
Gulcher Magazine #6 [original print edition!!]
$65 USD
1975-1977: Demos & Rehearsals – The Gizmos First Double-CD!!!
$27 USD
Love Songs 1975-1981 – The Gizmos Love You!!!
$12 USD
The Gizmos: Raw '76/'77 – Limited Edition Tape.
$12 USD
The Gizmos: Raw '76/'77 – Raw First Takes CDR
$50 USD
The Gizmos EPs 1976-1978 – Limited edition tape.
$12 USD
Never Mind The Gizmos Here's The Gizmos – Check out this Hoosier Hysteria!!!
$16 USD
Rock & Roll Don't Come From New York! – I used to live in Indiana...
$21 USD
Gizmos Go To Purdue Live 1979 – Gizmos Visit Boilermakers!!
$16 USD
The Gizmos In New York 1980-81 – Second Pressing, Yay!!!
$12 USD
The Gizmos In New York 1980-81 – First pressing, last one!!
Sold Out
1981 NYC Demos--The Midwest Can Be Allright – Seven Song CD-EP
$12 USD
Gizmos Songbook
$17 USD
Gizmos World Tour 2014 – Compact Disc with Two Bonus Interviews!
$21 USD
Gizmos World Tour 2014 – BOGO50%
$31.50 USD
21st Century Gizmos Fans Can't Be Wrong – Black Vinyl 7" EP
$8 USD
21st Century Gizmos Fans Can't Be Wrong – Numbered Red Vinyl 7" EP
$30 USD
Gizmo Nation –
Covers Comp of the First Three Gizmos EPs + Two Bonus Tracks!!
Various Gizvangelists
$16 USD
Polish Sausage Sauerkraut! A Collection Of Gizmos Covers –
A collection of Gizmos covers from the ’79-to-’81 era...
Various Gizfangelists
$12 USD
Gizmo My Way: Unsung Anthems Of Ken Highland & The Gizmos –
Lost Classics Back Home!!
Mykal Xul
$16 USD
Live At Cantone's 1977 –
This is the real thing!!!
The Afrika Korps
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The Gizmos Bloomington, Indiana
Thurston "Gizmo" Moore at Sonic Life book signing at Monorail Music, Glasgow, Scotland, November 16, 2023. Photo courtesy
Lindsay Hutton.
As time unfolds we'll be uploading more Gizmos and related releases to Bandcamp. In the meantime, you can visit the Official Gulcher Store at Big Cartel for the complete discography, or message us directly for Gulcher's set sale list.
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