A complete run in four issues of the rare 1970s Texas music magazine, each issue 30-40 pp. Quarto (10 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches). Original photo-illustrated wrappers, three of the four issues side-stapled. Some light toning throughout, nos. 3 and 4 with some old damp-staining, light abrasions to covers, issue no. 4 with a crease throughout, likely from original printing error, issue no. 1 with an old price sticker affixed to front cover, overall very good. Austin, Texas: Doug Hanners and Deron Bissett, 1975-1985.

This small-run irregularly-published music magazine was edited and self-published by Doug Hanners, an Austin-based record dealer who founded both the Austin Record Convention and Texas Archive, a 1980s record label that reissued albums from obscure Texas garage rock and rockabilly bands. Hanner's collection is now housed at Texas State University.

The issues focused on Texas-based mostly punk and garage rock bands, containing articles, interviews, reviews, want ads, and album spotlights. Some of the artists covered in these four short issues include the 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson, Kenny and the Kasuals, Shiva's Headband, Red Krayola, Doug Sahm, Mouse and the Traps, The Bad Seeds, The Zakary Thaks, Josefus, The Reasons Why, Stereo Shoestring, Larry and the Blue Notes, the Bluethings, the Sparkles, the Stoics, Lost & Found, Golden Dawn, the Sherwoods, and more.

Only four issues of the magazine were published across a total of ten years, an issue which the editors mention in multiple places. The editor's note of the second issue opens with, "Surprise! Thought you'd seen the last of NFA didn't 'cha? Well, for awhile we thought so too. I want to apologize to everyone who has been waiting for this issue and thank you for your patience. We didn't plan to publish a fanzine every year or so but that's the way it turned out....I had no idea Texas music was as popular as it is all over the world."

Issue 3 opens, "Well, here we are again! I'm sure that this is as much of a shock to many of you as it is to me! Doesn't seem like it's been five years since issue #1 but it has, guess this is the only fanzine around that only puts out three issues in that length of time. Everyone has my apologies for the long lapse between issues and I promise (again!) to not make you wait so long for the next one...In any event the goal of NFA will always remain the same: Texas music past and present - the obvious and the obscure."

Despite Hanners' plans for less time to pass between issues, once again the fourth and final issue of Not Fade Away opens similarly to issues 2 and 3: "My goodness how time goes by when you're rockin' n' rollin'. Yes, Not Fade Away has lived up to it's name and is back once again....Yep, this is my official 10th anniversary issue - 1975-1985." The editor's note ends with a wish for more issues to be published in the future, but we could find no record of any more issues being released after the 4th.

Very scarce; as of February 2025, OCLC shows only five holdings of this title in North American libraries, at least three of which appear to be incomplete.

Book ID: 53396

Price: $1,500.00