Tim Yohannan, born August 15, 1945, died April 3, 1998 in San Francisco, California of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, was the founder of Maximum Rock and Roll (MRR), a radio show and zine documenting the punk scene around the world. Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The non-Hodgkin lymphomas are a diverse group of hematologic cancers which encompass any Lymphoma other than Hodgkin lymphoma. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. A zine (an abbreviation of the word Fanzine, or magazine ziːn "zeen" is most commonly a small circulation non-commercial Publication The punk subculture is based around Punk rock. It emerged from the larger Rock music scene in the mid-to-late-1970s in the United Kingdom, the United As the zine became popular and profitable, Yohannan donated those profits to zines and collectives, even as he continued blue-collar work in the Lawrence Hall of Science at University of California, Berkeley. The Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS is a public science center featuring hands-on exhibits and activities The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley
Also known as Tim Yo, he is remembered for popularizing "Punk Rock Infrastructure", essentially an informal ideal of necessary worldwide community among punks. He gathered a number of like-minded partisans for the burgeoning punk genre and established a number of collectives in the DIY spirit, such as 924 Gilman Street, Blacklist Mailorder, and the Epicenter Zone community center. The DIY ethic ( Do it yourself ethic refers to the ethic of being self-reliant by completing tasks oneself as opposed to having others who are likely more experienced complete The 924 Gilman Street project alternately the Alternative Music Foundation, is the Berkeley California street address and
Yohannan helped to mold the early 1980s American punk scene and tied in various international punk scenes as well, documenting them in MRR Scene Reports. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Yohannan was always mindful of the central conflict between punk rock's essentially ungovernable force and the apparent need for punk rock infrastructure. This conflict could be considered a sort of dualistic driving force which ensured his project's success.
As a self-appointed herdsman of the punks, Yohannan had a reputation as being notoriously difficult. He was a hardened ideologue with a strong puritanical streak but—luckily—also a sense of humor; he also had an extremely practical side that was results focused, and so his projects arguably avoided the problems of some collective endeavors which get bogged down in debate. An ideology is a set of beliefs aims and Ideas especially in politics A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of Worship and Doctrine, Instead, Yohannan would simply declare what he percived as "right", and move forward. Yohannan was also a 1960s counterculture-era leftist, which was often at odds with the tendencies of many punk scenes. The Counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s refers to a period between 1960 and 1973 that began in the United States as a reaction against Still, this ideological element created many rifts in the punk scene.
Quotes
"Records are not just records any more. They come with lyric sheets & there's all sorts of information in them, political stuff, addresses, iconoclastic representations of existing society. " —Tim Yohannan, 1984
"What's important about punk rock is its independence of government & of corporations & its network that exist outside of that. That is, what is political. . . not the words, not the music as much as the independence. . . " —Tim Yohannan
External links
- Maximum Rockn Roll official site
- the 924 Gilman Street Project
- Slingshot obituary: A Salute to Tim Yohannon
- Salon obituary: The Day Punk Died
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