This book got rave reviews (scroll down for an example) when it was first published in the late 80s, and it's still around. Author Charles Neal worked with me at WFDD and WKZL. He left North Carolina to go to London and write this book. It's full of cool and unusual interviews with and contributions from post-punk artists, including:
Tape Delay is composed of interviews, exclusive writing, illustrations and photographs that reflect the intiatives of those who have deviated from the mainstream of sound, word and image since the mid-Seventies.
The continued dominance of an entertainment-based industry and culture determines that such work appears as 'specialist," whatever its content - any experimentation is easily marginalised. TAPE DELAY provides the first comprehensive focus on undercurrents and interventions that continue to exert a strong influence in spit of this, highlighting past actions and future possibilities.
