Ok what that guy said about it being of little interest to those not involved with or obsessed with the east bay scene of yesteryear, I found to be totally untrue. This for me is the archetypal punk rock zine. It's so inspiring. The layout, art, sloppyness, columns. Basically it's full of great ideas. Currently my favourite punk zine. jimmy pigeon

I was re-reading this the other day, having read Absolutely Zippo when they were first coming out, then when they were republishing & then when i dug this edition out of my stored books box, & i have some new thoughts. Absolutely Zippo will probably be of little interest to people who aren't obsessed with or weren't involved with the mid-period east-bay Punk scene. But for those of us who are or were, there are funny appearances by people who went on to become semi-mythological, & pretty hilarious columns by Lawrence Livermore which are always a bit irritating as well, given his Lookout records & their relationship to the scene & all that. It is also interesting to see how the zine develops (or doesn't) over time. Norstein Beckler