The stories in this here anthology may in fact be true true wild tales I've absorbed over time. Perhaps drenched with generous hyperbole? I'll let you decide.
As one of the founding members of the seminal punk band Angry Samoans, Gregg Turner has seen his fair share of weird shit. From his time at Creem Magazine in the early 1970s to the formation of the Angry Samoans in Los Angeles, and all the travels, trials, and tribulations that occured after, Turner takes us through a wild ride of stories he's heard, stories he's lived, and some he may or may not have made up.
With illustrations by Emmy and Klein-award winning illustrator Gary Panter, Hallucinations from Hell is an onslaught of a book that will appeal to any reader who loves a good story.
"Grzegorz Laszlo Turner has made the US his home since 1963. In the decades since, he has brilliantly fused the brightest tendencies in contemporary Magyar and American prose. His body of work, bristling with post-modern tenderness and compassion, places him firmly on the short line for Nobel consideration."
-Richard Meltzer, author of The Aesthetics of Rock and A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer
"Gregg Turner follows up his long legacy of rambunctious arrested adolescence-don't forget he is both a founding member of punk shock rock band The Angry Samoans, as well as a 1980s Creemmagazine contributor-with this collection of scatalogically-challenged tales of hyperbole. There's a reason that some areas of the USA are designated as 'fly-over', and in quite a few of Mr. Turner's stories he makes this abundantly clear."
-Chris D., singer/songwriter of bands The Flesh Eaters and Divine Horsemen, and writer of fiction and film studies
"Gregg can write. Even In a story set in the world of mathematics (a world in which I would customarily fear to tread] one discovers, for instance, "The fact that this veteran oldster was able to accomplish a remarkable mathematical feat heartened the cockles of the math community of academes." Good stuff, Gregg's stories. Real good stuff."
-John Mendelssohn, author of The Kinks Kronikles and Gigantic: The Story of Frank Black and The Pixies
"Gregg takes the essence and ethos of punk rock and spews it all over the page. I'm just glad I don't have to clean it up."
-Andy Shernoff, The Dictators
"This is a fun ride (at 110mph) through an American landscape formed by late stage capitalism and littered with the smoking remains of alien abductees, grave-robbers, dominatrixes (dominatrii?), and a definitely alien rock star, as seen through the O.G. punk rock eyes of Gregg Turner, the Angriest Samoan."
-Dr. Nicole Panter Dailey, psychologist and manager of the Germs from 1977-80
