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DepartmentEditor's NotesWelcome friends to the 70th issue of Legends Magazine! I’m proud to be releasing this issue, stepping ever closer to the big 100th issue of Legends. I have no intentions of stopping before then and have plenty of things to offer you in the future.
Also in this issue is the closing chapter of “The Institute.” Once again, might I remind those that already know, and notify those that are new to the magazine, that contrary to popular beliefI did not write that story. I printed the story because it was, well, scary. “Carmody’s Conclusion” will shock you!
I’m writing this while I can still feel my body stiffening up from the onslaught of Van’s Warped Tour ’97. Me and some good people managed to make it out there this past Saturday (July 26 th ) and had one hell of a good time. If you’re into punk/ska, I would like to suggest you check out an up and coming band that I thoroughly enjoyed. They’re called “Less Than Jake.” They threw out a kick-ass set for us skankers in the pit, and my hat and adoration goes off in their direction. So swing by and check out their website at http://www.afn.org/~ltj/. If you like ska, even a little, and are looking to find a band that take the music genre back to it’s roots, you owe it to yourself to check out Less Than Jake! Welp, that’s all I have to say at least until the back page kiddies. So read on and enjoy this issue. Marcus Pan, Editor
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Features in this issue include the long-awaited
interviews with Dancing Ferret Concerts and the bands SunShine Blind and The
New Creatures. The three groups (Patrick Rodgers, Caroline Blind and Mark Walsh
are representing them in respective order) have agreed to an exclusive
interview with me following the horrendous actions of Andrew “Not
Goth” Eldritch at the now-infamous Dark Harvest III festival in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this past June 28 th . I’m very happy to bring
you this exclusive interview, most of which was performed electronically, to
answer many questions surrounding this event. I hope my reporting will shed
some light on what occurred there. I’ve aptly named the interview “A
Too Gothic Interview.”
Also, Derek McDonald returns with his
higly-acclaimed series, “The Polishing of Metal.” I’m proud to
bring you Part 5, “Maturity.” I also wanted to take a moment to let
you all know that there is an even more-updated version of the entire series
(Derek is constantly performing new research and editing the finished product)
available at the website of the Rock Record Collectors Association (R.R.C.A.).
You can reach them by entering http://www.interlog.com/~thrash/rrca.html into
your World Wide Web browser. The RRCA is a non commercial/Non-profit club
dedicated to the needs of record collectors around the world. The Polishing of
Metal series is available under the link “History of Heavy
Metal.”
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