The F.I.B. 'zine Summaries: Part One
Jimi Sharp makes Fidalgo Island's Beautiful music history
When fans produce small-scale magazines focused on their interests/passions, the result equates: Fan + Magazine = fanzine, often shortened to zine. Anacortes has been blessed with Jimi Sharp’s decades-long documentation - in great detail - of the local music scene. To assist our efforts on the Music of Anacortes exhibit at the Anacortes Museum, we asked Jimi to summarize each issue and create a list of the people featured in The F.I.B. over the years.
Here are descriptions of the first four issues of my fanzine, The FIB.
The FIB issue #1
Published 31 OCT 1996
Cover: Jimi Sharp & Chad Champneys
Interview: Soundgarden’s Artis the Spoonman
Created aboard USS RAINIER (AOE-7)
Pages: 66
Reviewed in Zine World #4
The FIB #2
Published 28 FEB 1997
Cover: Jimi Sharp (Photo of Jimi’s maternal great-grandpa, Craigie Sharp)
Interview: Various ship bands, consisting of sailors aboard the USS RAINIER (AOE-7) including Jed‘s monkey, the Jammin’ Deputies, and Jamie Senske.
Poems; a “fib” story about Loreena McKennitt being linked to the IRA; Drawings; Photographs; a “fib” story about confronting author Anne Rice about why she created a butt-rocking vampire and named him Lestat?
Created aboard USS RAINIER (AOE-7)
Pages: 66
Reviewed in Factsheet 5 #62
The FIB issue #3
Published 23 APR 1997
Cover: Jimi Sharp & Chad Champneys.
Interview: Sup-Pop Mega Mart employee, Bill Schreiner; Poems; Drawings; Photographs; a “fib” story titled, “Joe Donald Baker Deer Hunting Diaries”; a “fib” story about Nirvana’s / Foo Fighters frontman, Dave Grohl being interviewed by FIB staff; A lengthy “Basic Tour of Seattle” with photos of Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, Moore Theatre, Crocodile Cafe, Sub-Pop Mega Mart, etc.
Pages: 68
Created aboard USS RAINIER (AOE-7)
The FIB issue #4
Published 02 JUN 1997
Cover: Phil Elvrum
Interview: Knw-Yr-Own Records’ Phil Elvrum. Jimi Sharp bought the “Mostly Clouds + Trees” cassette tape by Phil Elvrum and “The Piranhas: Sharkticon” by Leica Piranha. Jimi wrote : “By the first beat I was addicted. Quickly I mailed off a money-order and loaded up on Knw-Yr-Own music.” An impromptu interview Jimi did with Phil about Knw-Yr-Own. They discussed Bret starting Knw-Yr-Own records; Phil getting ready to attend The Evergreen State College; Phil yells to Bret that his mom called and she wants him to call her back; Phil talks about his dabbling in bass music and how his favorite Knw-Yr-Own release is, “The Microphones that’s my favorite by far, that’s my favorite.”; Phil plugs a July 5, 1997 show at The Business featuring The Champs. A lot of Poems; Photographs; A “fib” interview with New York Yankees baseball player, Reggie Jackson titled, “The Sports Conspiracy; Three pages of excerpts taken from The BLIMP zine issue #6 with permission by Phil Elverum; 17 pages of single-space typed article titled, “The FIB’s Basic Seattle Rock History 101.”
Created at 494 Salmon Beach Road, Anacortes, WA. 98221
*Address later changed to 6976 Salmon Beach Road, Anacortes, WA 98221
Pages:68
Reviewed in Zine World # 6