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Yeah, I've checked Philm Freax site quite a few times, & it's really, really good. Lotsa pics ov Nik Turner, Twink, and folks like that. Right up my street!
― Norman Phay, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
six years pass...
http://www.wussu.com/zines/ozimages/oz07cox.jpg
Just stumbled upon this from seeing it mentioned in a Hawkwind documentary. This website has scans of front covers (http://www.wussu.com/zines/oz01_04.htm)
Supposedly there were scans of all the issues online but they've since disappeared. Still, it has started me craving to read psychedelic magazines with psychedelic gaudy pop art design. Are scans of Oz anywhere online? Or the IT? Or any other 60s-era psychedelic joke rags?
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 23 October 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Love this stuff. There's a good colour survey "200 Trips from the Counter-Culture: Graphics and Stories from the Underground Press Syndicate" by this guy called Bizot, which I've looked at, but never got around to acquiring.
― Soukesian, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Hah this stuff is hilarious. There is an interview with Timothy Leary in issue 3:
Leary In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.
Playboy Several hundred?
Leary Yes, several hundred.
Page 13 features a guy smoking a hookah framed by a childishly drawn psychedelic border, the headline Frisco Speaks written in a cloud above his head. In dopehead chicken scratch he says "Forever, fellow-blown-minds, you're super cool guru of inner-space reports from nirvana....a warning about that banana scene....it's a hoax, man, i ate 37 last weekend a(sic) just got very sick, man....very sick....very uncool."
This magazine seems very pro-freak and anti-hippie, in a way that early Mothers of Invention records were. Kind of celebrating the freak scene while at the same time treating its trappings with the same kind of satirical contempt delivered to mainstream society. Also in the spirit of Zappa, a 2-page spread of a naked lady sitting on a toilet superimposed over London, for an article about politics. Funny shit.
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 23 October 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link