greg shaw

so there's a new book out on the late rock enthusiast/journo/record collector/label honcho/notorious womanizer greg shaw, whom i had the privilege of interviewing for a fanzine back around the cleavage of the decades: that'd be bomp: saving the world one record at a time, put together by lit brit mick farren and greg's ex-wife suzy shaw. as a 16-year-old san francisco sci-fi nerd, greg founded the very first (pre-crawdaddy!, pre-rolling stone) rock zine, mojo navigator, which in the fullness of time morphed into the bomp! zine/label/distro. he championed garage, punk, and "power pop," and showed that a youthful infatuation with books 'n' music could last a lifetime and even bear significant fruit.