House O' Pain #9 (Nashville)

With issue number nine, Nashville's House O' Pain began to grow in size as well as importance. The Metro would soon evolve into Bone Music Magazine and just didn't cover the breadth of alternative and underground music that was covered by the HO'P crew. This issue covers more of the ongoing saga of The Pantheon and the purchase of the club's lease by Nashville rock's favorite scoundrel, Gus Palas. Lots of good interviews in this issue, covering a wide spectrum of musical diversity.

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VITAL STATISTICS:
• Issue #9
• January 1993
• B&W, 64-pages (including covers)
• Style: punkzine

ARTICLES
The Jesus Lizard
The Melvins
L7
Cows
Spitboy
Buzzoven
Citizen Fish
Man Or Astroman?
Babes In Toyland
They Might Be Giants
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House O' Pain #8 (Nashville)

This issue included lots of coverage of the ongoing saga of The Pantheon club in Nashville where the House O' Pain troika promoted their all-ages shows. In one of the most pathetic episodes in the history of the local rock music scene, club owner Pan Doss had booked the infamous G.G. Allin to play The Pantheon in November 1991 only to run headfirst into opposition by city leaders. An "anonymous" phone call to the police brought a legion of codes inspectors to the club, temporarily closing it down and costing Doss thousands of dollars to make right. To this day, I still feel that it was one of the city's notorious church groups that made the call. This issue of HO'P also covered the final chapter of the feud between myself and Gus Palas, publisher of The Metro and my launching of the local music zine R Squared.

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VITAL STATISTICS:
• Issue #8
• August 1992
• B&W, 44-pages (including covers)
• Style: punkzine

ARTICLES
Helmet
Cop Shoot Cop
The Accused
Porn Orchard
The Wedding Present
Skinny Puppy
Bedlam Hour
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