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Relix Magazine was launched by Les Kippel in 1974, stemming from the underground network of Grateful Dead concert-goers who taped and traded live recordings. The newsletter was originally distributed under the name Dead Relix and featured hand-drawn black and white concept artwork covers created by artist Gary Kroman. Averaging 20 pages per issue, the articles focused on taping tips and Grateful Dead news.To quote an anonymous source, someone "bought RELIX and Jambands.com and saved both from going under." The investor "didn't buy any of the other Zenbu entities though."Even as early as the second issue, non-Dead editorial found its way into Dead Relix's pages and, with the addition of an editor, the young magazine expanded its scope to cover the music of the San Francisco Bay Area psychedelic scene. By 1978, Dead Relix contained reviews, essays, short features and artwork, and had dropped the "Dead" from its title. In a world that was moving away from hippy culture, Relix managed to remain relevant, by expanding its scope of coverage beyond "Bay Area psychedelic rock" to cover genres as diverse as reggae and heavy metal, with varying degrees of success. [Wiki]
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jerry bought em
Posted by bob garcia | February 22, 2009 1:50 PM
poorly written garbage about bands no one with taste cares about can be saved, but no one is helping out corey rusk?!
Posted by Anonymous | February 22, 2009 2:31 PM
Just because you don't like the bands featured in Relix, doesn't mean that no one cares about them.
Expand your mind, dick.
Posted by eggs | February 22, 2009 3:19 PM
More in-depth coverage of String Cheese Incident. Great!
Posted by Anonymous | February 22, 2009 5:48 PM
^^stupid fuck, relix writes about more than just the jamband scene.
Posted by Anonymous | February 22, 2009 7:27 PM
who bought it?
Posted by Anonymous | February 22, 2009 7:53 PM
hippies
Posted by Anonymous | February 22, 2009 9:00 PM
terrible hippies. why wont you baby boomer die already. i wish al queada had bombed that vermont phish concert.
Posted by ho | February 22, 2009 10:45 PM
whatsa magazine?
Posted by Anonymous | February 23, 2009 12:18 AM
don't feel too bad for corey rusk, i long for the day i can retire on my catalog. No overhead + 25 years of records = more profit than when they were operating.
Posted by always right | February 23, 2009 9:54 AM
the music in relix is more then your little hipster brain can handle, anything more complex then one note bass lines makes your head hurt and dick shrivel smaller.
Posted by 2009 Giant | February 23, 2009 11:22 AM
@ho
i'm all for dark humor if the joke is there. thankfully, you stepped up with a joke so awful, that the joke became your life.
Posted by Anonymous | February 23, 2009 12:15 PM
i heard thru the grapevine taht the buyer is former wetlands owner pete shapiro
Posted by Anonymous | February 23, 2009 5:14 PM
thanks
Posted by bursa evden eve nakliyat | April 1, 2009 9:49 AM