Volume 2, Number 12
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
November 1980 cover, Burning Spear, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. Design by Nate Fors,
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Table of Contents and page 3 featuring concert report and photos of Ultravox at Lawrence Opera House, September 29, 1980
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 4 and 5 featuring Ultravox concert report and photos
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 6 and 7 featuring album reviews of The Clash, Monochrome Set, and Glaxo Babies
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 8 and 9 featuring album reviews of Siouxsie and The Banshees, Talking Heads, The Dead Kennedys, and Kurtis Blow
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 10 and 11 featuring singles reviews of Surgical Penis Klinik (SPK), In Camera, The The, Bush Tetras, Glenn Branca, LiLiput, Echo and The Bunnymen, and The Professionals
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 12 and 13 featuring concert report and photos of Burning Spear at The Uptown Theater, Kansas City, October 20, 1980
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 14 and 15 featuring continued concert report and more photos of Burning Spear
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 16 and 17 featuring reggae reviews of UB 40, Soul Syndicate, Earl Zero, Toots and The Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Bunny Wailer, Derrick Laro & Trinity, and Rico Rodriguez
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 18 and 19 featuring an interview with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 20 and 21 featuring continued interview with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 22 and 23 featuring conclusion of the interview with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 18 and 19 featuring concert reports of William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Thumbs at The Lawrence Opera House, September 30, 1980, and Johnny Winter, October 20, 1980 at The Lawrence Opera House. Also an album review of James Brown.
Talk Talk Volume 2, #12
Pages 26 and 27 featuring album reviews of Prince Far I, Toots and The Maytals (from p 16), and James Brown (from p 25), plus ads for The Lawrence Opera House, and Rock Therapy and Exile record shops.
Excerpts
“I remember the first thing I heard Bill say was sort of a description of a fight in a gay bar between a lesbian and somebody else has gotten drunk and bit her ear off. And Bill said, "Tis too starved an argument for my sort.”
Allen Ginsberg, page 20
“Life is a cut-up. Any time you look out the window or walk down the street your conscience is constantly cut up by random factors, like the spider here. So it is making explicit something that goes on all the time.”
William s. Burroughs, page 23
“…I stood in awe as I watched drunks stumble by me and three people get gently but forcibly removed from the premises for unknown causes (though they did appear falling down drunk). Everywhere I went I could see or hear sleepy, slurred voices offering the crowd, "Acid, Hash?" The thought that kept going through my head was that these youth and semi-youth were the future of America (how depressing).”
Johnny Winter concert report, page 25