GAD! Zine

  Alabama punk rock pioneer/legend Alabama Sharp (The Knockabouts, Monster God, The Go-Go Killers) interviewed Tiger Helicide and GAD! Zine founder Adam Harmless for GAD! issue 25. Both continue to do their part in keeping underground music alive in the state. ALABAMA SHARP: Good sir Mr. Harmless, tell me about yourself.... ADAM HARMLESS: I'm an artist from the Gadsden, AL area. I've got a couple of punk rock bands going, Tiger Helicide and Hot For Creature. I've had some other bands and solo noise projects over the years as well. I've also been known to put together zines with my friends. SHARP: Gadsden, Alabama. Tell me a little about that place. Did you grow up there? HARMLESS: I was born in Gadsden, but moved away when I was about five. I mostly grew up in Pell City. A weird place. Gadsden is weird, but Pell City just seemed.... Anyway, I grew up there and moved to Jacksonville to go to college. Spent about 7 years in college (almost made it to junior!). Met my ...

This GADsden band is more of a Nashville band lately, and that makes sense to this writer. They do country-fried rock that makes you jump out of your chair and put your fist in the air. Songs like "Good Life" are a good example. Makes me miss my motorcycle, because Them Dirty Roses are what riding sounds like in my heart. Just some raw dirty loud rock. I love it all, but that is some damn good guitar. TDR are the modern hollering of classic rock. They get it, and you should, too. -Ram Blon  Them Dirty Roses on Facebook ! Them Dirty Roses on Spotify ! P.S.: Them Dirty Roses will be playing at Chestnut Station in Gadsden, AL on Friday November 26, 2021. Hometown Show!

      I first interviewed Genki Genki Panic in 2017. It’s been 4 years and they’ve aged like a fine Transylvanian wine, fermenting and perfecting the spooky craft of what front man Project Bat has coined, Dungeon Surf. When we spoke 4 years ago, I asked if GGP would ever add vocals. “If vocals are meant to happen, they’ll happen.” And as fate would have it, vocals were added through their recently released Spookonia/Spookerboxx EP. My favorite of which was “I Was A Teenage Were-C.H.U.D.” The vocals are a perfect marriage of The Deadly Ones meet Jack Skellington. Definitely check it out.      This, however is a review for their most recently released 3 song EP, The Munge. First up is " The Munge Parasito " . Wait I’ve heard this before! Oh, but not like this you haven’t! " The Munge ..." has been re-recorded and at a very high quality. I’ve always loved this song, but this version is punchier, sandier, and much dungeonier than the previous version - just ...

     It's been since June of last year that we last posted an article to this site. Long ass time, considering this is supposed to not only accentuate what we do with the GAD! Zine, but also give so much more. And often. OOPS.     For anyone else, who isn't crippled by depression or the actual disease, a pandemic-induced shutdown might be a golden opportunity to create. Or at least post a lotta shit online. Well, somehow, I ended up at work more. Ate into my "play time". When I'm not at work, I try to spend more time with my family. Besides that, my motivation has been totally shot. Not the motivation to create, but to be involved with "the scene(s), maaaan".      I have so many dear friends in the community, but we all land on so many different perspectives. I can put mild political differences aside (not all artists are great at world views or understanding the world in general), but some, thankfully not many, got caught up in conspiracies.... a...

Joey Image, the legendary punk rock drummer who performed on some the Misfits' most classic songs, has passed away. I personally never met him, but had a brief correspondence on social media. A few years back, I sent a SASE for a "Joey Image Trio" button, but when I got the envelope back, the button had either been snatched by a very cool but unscrupulous postal worker or just busted through the paper and into the ether. I was excited just to have Joey's autograph on the envelope! He immediately contacted me when he heard and hooked me up with 2 buttons. Some good old-school punk mail right there! When I'd heard that he was sick, I wanted to get the word out about his Go-Fund-Me page. I figured it'd be good to feature it in our zine. GAD! is very much a part of the Huntsville, AL scene, home of Cancerslug and Alex Story (who also happens to sing for Doyle), not to mention a ton of other horror-punk/death-rock bands like the Casket Kids and the Go-Go Killers, s...

We've been fans of Jonny & the Black Frames for years. They've been super supportive of the zine as well. So it's kinda insane that we haven't done a proper interview with the boys. TODAY WE FIX THIS!! interview by Harmless GAD!: Who the hell are Jonny & the Black Frames and where do you come from? J&tBF : Jonny and Chad met in Vegas in ‘62 during a backroom poker game at the Sands. Dean Martin introduced us right before Chad dropped a full house on Sinatra and got us kicked out. The rest of the night was a blur of booze and showgirls. J was hired muscle for the mob in those days, but he made one too many enemies and somehow ended up in the back of our Cadillac as we all skipped town. We’re laying low in Huntsville, AL until the heat dies down… Jonny plays guitar and sings, Chad plays bass and sings, and J beats the hell out of the drums, in addition to giving zero fucks. We consider ourselves a no-holds-barred, straight up, Rock ‘n’ ...

    The internet is ripe with media posts, which are usually plastered with a cute little robot drawn, assumedly drawn by one of their members. They have been playing shows all over Alabama. So with the current level of buzz, I decided to check out for myself if they are just a minor threat, or in fact, a mighty menace.     Their first release is titled, “MOTHMAN’S FIRST VICTIM”, and it is a live performance that shoots a blistering flurry of arrows into one’s ears. I am immediately reminded of the time I first discovered Bomb The Music Industry!, when I was supposed to be writing a paper on the history of photography in high school. This is definitely a band that I cannot wait to see live. The energy from the band and the crowd are massively present in the recording. I can almost smell the coffee, sweat, and salty tears when I hear it.     Their sound goes from heartfelt sung vocals over sweet bass lines and keys, to sing-along choruses, to dyn...