Three O’Clock Press has released a new edition of the Daniel Jones novel, 1978. The cover features a Don Pyle photograph of Rojer and Rabies in front of the Horseshoe Tavern, in 1978.
From Three O’Clock Press:
“In this violent, raw, and often beautiful novel, Daniel Jones captures the long-vanished Toronto where a broke teen punk could buy a beer with a two-dollar bill.
Soo, Kid, Jacky, and Boy are damaged and self-destructive, losing whole days to cheap booze and pills, accidental blackouts and hospital stays. They badly want to emulate local punk idols like the Viletones and Teenage Head, but can’t hold it together long enough to learn an entire song.
1978 is Jones’ uncompromising literary take on the frantic energy and bleak extremes of the early Toronto punk scene, but it’s also the story of a group of messed-up kids in a squalid apartment, desperately looking underneath all the attitude and filth for something real.”
Urban Graffiti magazine has reprinted Daniel Jones’s original short-story version of 1978.
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Don Pyle,
You and your readers may be interested in this proto version of Daniel Jones story, “1978″ I published in my litzine, Urban Graffiti #1 in 1993 and have reprinted to coincide with the reprinting of his npvel of the same name. Enjoy: http://urbgraffiti.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/1978-by-daniel-jones-the-short-story/
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===>Oi! MONDO TORONTO!
FUNNY ODD N’ IRONIC HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS »»» TO FIND MYSELF ON COVER
OF BOOK NAMED OF THE SAME YEAR*///
& Freddy P. always did call me ‘kid’ whenever i hung out at New Rose. Arrff!
╚> I ALWAYS KNEW THOSE WERE SPECIAL TIMES — THAT WE WERE ON THE CREST OF SOMETHING FANTASTIC. HERSTORY SPEAKS!
xx LONG GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN
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> http://youtu.be/cMQxtAK5hEI < ha ha