Friday, July 9, 2010
Pitch archive started online
Posted
by Scott Wilson on
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:30 AM
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October 1988: Clint Eastwood's Bird prompts a Charlie Parker cover story.
This week's
cover story recalls the first days of
The Pitch, which began in July 1980 as a shotgun wedding of gonzo sensibility and record-store hype.
The staff at the University of Missouri-Kansas City's LaBudde Special Collections, in the Millers-Nichols Library, has started gathering copies of the print edition from the years predating the paper's presence online. The issues compiled so far -- starting with 1980 in full -- are viewable in PDF form
here. That's a whole lot of
LeRoi to catch up with.
The library is accepting donations, so if you have a stack of issues from 1982 to 1999 in your basement, click
here.
Tags: 1980s, The Pitch, UMKC, Westport
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