Sweden Rock Magazine 6 2024

Sweden Rock Magazine has just started to hype the next issue and it has a nice 1998 “Abandon” era press shot of Ian Gillan and Jon Lord on the cover. “Jon Lord was the Godfather”, the Gillan quote on the cover says. This is the second issue in a row that highlights the Purple Family. The current issue (5 2024) sports images of Ian Paice, Ritchie Blackmore and Phil Lynott on the cover and it deals with the aborted 1971 Baby Face project. Issue 6 will be out on June 12 in stores.

(Cover is from official platforms)

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Scott King (SLICE 2003)

When I created the Swedish Lucy Lawless/Xena fanzine Lucy In The Sky in 2000, American artist Scott King (born in Dayton, Ohio in 1967) became part of the team with his wonderful cartoons and art. His art then, was part of the five issues that were made between 2000 and 2003. In the final issue, I presented a four page interview with Scott. When I then created SLICE in 2003 Scott continued to deliver his Xena art for the first two issues, but also some X-Files (which I will showcase tomorrow on the blog). He would return for one last time with Montana Blue art in Retrofuture 6 (published in 2013). Wonderful talent. Great guy.

(My shot of his Xena art in SLICE 2003, the first issue of said fanzine – Deep Purple cover by Michael Johansson – available now through this blog at the Fanzine Newsstand tag)

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The Fanzine Years (Purple Family)

Not sure if a lot of people are aware of this, but after the Deep Purple Forever! fanzine ended in 2003 I continued to support the Deep Purple Family right through the remaining fanzine years (right up to 2015). In fact, since the fanzines evolved a great deal, I would say that the best looking stuff really came out post-Deep Purple Forever! I also invited guest writers. It was all an amazing journey.

(My shot of some of the 2004-2015 era stuff)

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500,000 Hits

I discovered this morning that this blog has had over 500,000 hits, so that is a pretty good fact to mention here today. It will hit 1,000,000 way faster than what it took to reach this place, so that is something to look forward to. Many thanks for visiting Trinkelbonker.

(My shot of Babymetal, left shot of me plus Ronnie James Dio – note my Lucy In The Sky fanzine on the table in front of him – by Michael Johansson, Glenn Hughes by Christer Bolin, part of old fanzine note by Jörgen Holmstedt in the upper right corner – the inserted flag is the flag that represents Jämtland County here in Sweden, so I am being patriotic here!)

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Good Times

Nice feature with Deep Purple in the new issue of Sweden Rock Magazine (5 2024, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Paice and Phil Lynott on the cover). The Purple feature is the first that I have seen in print covering the soon to be released “=1” album. Good interview with Roger Glover by writer Erik Thompson. The Blackmore/Paice, Lynott story is about the aborted 1971 Baby Face project. Imagine Blackmore and Paice having left Purple before “Machine Head” and “Made In Japan”? Or Lynott before Thin Lizzy made it. Good 7 page story by journalist Jörgen Holmstedt. Great work. Historic stuff actually. Some good stuff in this issue, Kiss (and the sale of their brand), Arjen Lucassen, The Crypt, Marty Friedman, HammerFall etc. Deep Purple will have the cover on the next issue.

(Purple live shot by Seth Nilsson, SRM Purple article inserted)

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Cozy Powell In Our Hearts

Never had an excuse to buy a copy of UK publication Vive Le Rock before, but the Cozy Powell story about his early 1970s solo singles days in issue 111 (out now) changed all that. I like the layout.

(My shot of said article, Cozy Powell image uncredited)

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Nice Aerosmith Tribute

Just discovered this 2022 reissue from Cleopatra Records, “Round & Round – A Tribute To Aerosmith”. Superb cover, and the talent here is quite impressive. Glenn Hughes, Joe Lynn Turner, Eric Singer, Reb Beach, Tony Franklin, Steve Lukather, Tim “Ripper” Owens, Carmine Appice, Doug Aldridge, Jimmy Bain etc etc. I do have a soft spot for compilation albums, and I guess a good Tribute collection is pretty much in the same vein. This one is out there on CD and Vinyl.

(My shot of part of the 1989 Aerosmith “Love In An Elevator” Maxi Single, Tribute album cover inserted)

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Revenge

“Headless Cross”/”Tyr” era Black Sabbath shot on the cover of UK publication Fistful Of Metal (issue) 15. The new box is finally giving the Martin years some long overdue respect. Me, I thought it was great back in the day. I was not late to the party.

(Cover is from official platforms)

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Got To Love The 1970s

I always liked the Archie comics back in the day. Here we have a nice special titled “Betty And Veronica Decades – The 1970s” (Archie Comics, 2024). 226 pages of nostalgia.

(My shot of said book, signed copy of Deep Purple´s “Stormbringer” in the back)

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That Was SLICE

In early 2003, I had two publications going at the same time, DEEP PURPLE FOREVER! and LUCY IN THE SKY. The latter was the Lucy Lawless/Xena fanzine. After 32 issues of DPF, and five of LITS, I ended them both and created the broader publication SLICE. Both general interests moved along into the new publication, but I could have a lot more fun with other stuff as well. In fact, the very last issue of DPF was released at the same time as the first issue of SLICE. You will find many publications from this era in the Fanzine Newsstand. In 2010 I launched the final publication, RETROFUTURE. Final era, which ended in 2015. Over 100 fanzines in print in total. For more information, check out the Fanzine History tag.

(Located this old image from the old days, the Ritchie Blackmore shot was taken by Michael Johansson in 1988, the Xena image was a publicity shot)

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