http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Punk/papers/slash.htm

Start at Mark Vallen's tribute to Slash. He not only created two of the most memorable covers, including the very last one, but he worked in the offices as a graphic artist. His memories, scanned covers, and the editorial transcriptions of the best voice to ever come out of punk, Claude "Kick Boy" Bessy will provide you with some food for thought and decrease your boredom. If anyone wants to know what true punk attitude is, start with Kick Boy's editorials. Then imagine a soothing French Norman accent and a seductive masculine man, and you can't even come close to what it was like to breathe the same air as Claude.

I contributed photos to Slash. I'll post some of those as well as some of my fave pages, graphically. As far as fave text, well, it was a treat to read it all. In your face and no holds barred, didn't matter if two people wrote opposing reviews of Devo, what mattered was intelligence and passion guided the words and photos. They, like myself, preferred Gang of Four to U2. Read it for yourself.

Slash magazine made its mark in so many ways: they covered all the new music, shows and parties. Their rebellious attitude, creative use of artists (showcasing Gary Panter, Lou Beach) and highly opinionated rants made them an integral part of the scene. But my fave part were the Slash benefits at Larchmont Hall and the parties. My fave person was Claude "Kick Boy" Bessy, although I could barely make it through his all caps editorials without feeling breathless. Hanging out with him told me everything I needed to know. His attitude, clothes, dancing, passion and zest for life was pure punk. I'll post more, but suffice to say, they mattered more than the LA Times, Herald Examiner or other mainstream press who purported to cover punk. Yeah, right.