Touch And Go Book Boosts Historic Hardcore 7" By The Fix To Record $4,250 Price

Riding a wave of rediscovery courtesy of the exhaustive new book Touch And Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83, by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson, the historic 1981 Midwest hardcore punk "Vengeance" 7" single by Touch And Go book editor Steve Miller's band The Fix has fetched an unprecedented $4,250 at auction. (The previous high price of $3,220 was set just last week.) Released in 1981 on Touch and Go Records in an edition of 200, the single has come to be seen as a spark that ignited Midwest hardcore punk.

"Hell, 4,250 is way more than the total number of people who ever saw us play," says Steve Miller. "The influence of this book has no boundaries. Imagine what will happen when Touch And Go books replace Gideon bibles in the nightstands of sleazy motels everywhere!"

"It makes me wonder how much my copy signed by all four Fix members would be worth?" says Touch And Go author (and former Touch and Go label chief) Tesco Vee. "Gotta pluck it from my cold dead sausage fingers to find out!"

Steve Miller recently joined Tesco Vee's Hate Police onstage in Chicago on July 17 for ripping renditions of several songs by The Fix. This upcoming weekend, we will join authors Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson at a rash of upcoming Touch And Go book release events:

• July 30 - Oak Park, MI
  READING @ Bookbeat (26010 Greenfield) - 7pm
• July 31 - East Lansing, MI
  READING @ Flat Black & Circular (541 East Grand River) - 1PM
• July 31 - Detroit, MI
  BOOK RELEASE SHOW @ St Andrews Hall (431 East Congress Street)
  with NEGATIVE APPROACH, TESCO VEE'S HATE POLICE, VIOLENT APATHY, HELLMOUTH, SORCEN, plus SPECIAL GUEST

Relased on June 30 and available wherever good books are sold, Touch And Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83 is a large 576-page dossier from the dawn of hardcore punk, complete with introductions by Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye, and Keith Morris of Black Flag/Circle Jerks.

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