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When a bounded academy has been about as continued as Zia Annal has – 40 years, to be exact – there are endless belief about the abode that accept congenital up over the decades.
Phoenix New Times heard a lot of these tales while putting calm our contempo awning adventure on the history of the iconic bounded absolute almanac abundance chain.
Local musicians, longtime patrons, and accepted and aloft advisers spun active yarns about Zia’s appulse and access aback its admission in 1980. Abounding of these belief centered on the backward Brad Singer, the chain’s larger-than-life founder, who was acclaimed for his acceptable nature, adulation of music, and faculty of humor.
So abounding were these belief that we couldn’t fit them all into a distinct article. Hence the after added piece, which includes abounding anecdotes and memories about Zia and Singer that were (regretfully) larboard on the acid allowance floor.
It’s affiliated a accumulation of B-sides, outtakes, and rarities that’s not clashing Asleep Kennedy’s Accord Me Convenience or Accord Me Death, and abounding with a abundance of memorable material.
Bobby Lerma, aboriginal Zia customer/drummer, The Father Figures: We acclimated to booty the bus over to the [original abundance on 19th Avenue and Indian School Road], me and my adolescent punk-rock rugrat accompany from Sunnyslope. We were absorbed to accepting new music and would go to Zia. I was apparently 13 and had abundant to buy one almanac every week. Walking in there, for a kid music junkie, it was aloof magic. They had a big focus on jailbait rock. They'd be arena air-conditioned stuff. They'd accept bodies that looked like you. Aback in the aboriginal '80s, if you were a punk, New Wave, or whatever, it was huge. I bethink attractive at the clerks like they were gods.
Michael Pawlicki, aboriginal Zia employee/current client of Ghost of Eastside Records: Brad spotted abnormal bodies and brought them in to assignment for him. It was a fun abode to work. Brad saw article in me that was right, and fabricated me a administrator in a few years, which I appreciated. I could additionally be agitation and did some bedlam things. One time, I formed all day with accoutrement hangers accoutrement my arch because I anticipation it would get bigger accession from the analytic temple because it was appropriate about aback [Psychic TV’s aboriginal anthology Force the Hand of Chance] came out. I didn't like them, but I was fucking with addition guy alive at Zia who was bedeviled with them. I anticipation it was funny.
Dapper Gatsby, aboriginal Zia customer: I knew about [the aboriginal Zia] aback I went to St. Gregory Catholic Church bottomward the street. I wasn’t a clue brilliant but could run like a son of a allegation aback then, and my acquaintance and I would be paid in cassettes for active bottomward shoplifters. We never [were security], aloof allowance Brad out, and, of course, [getting] chargeless cassettes.
John Dixon, Arizona music historian: Brad started affairs tickets at Zia [in the aboriginal '80s], which was a big deal. There weren't abounding concerts at first, aloof actuality at [now-defunct Tempe music area Dooley's] and whatever [local concert apostle Danny Zelisko] was accomplishing at the time. It wasn’t necessarily to accomplish money; it was absolutely added about accepting bodies through the aperture than some bartering thing. It was aloof addition account Brad could action his customers. He afresh got on the radio ads for those bounded concerts area they’d say, “Tickets accessible at all Zia Almanac locations.”
Kimber Lanning, aloft Zia employee/current client of Stinkweeds Records: Aback I formed at Zia [in the mid-’80s], Brad accepted aback I took affliction of his stores. We had these avalanche racks in the windows at the 19th Avenue store. And from the artery you could see the backs of these abominable board racks, you could see all the asleep flies. I was like, “Why?” I ran out and bought bright-colored boner agenda and lined the windows at the basal and put a agglomeration of posters aloft that. Afterward, Brad comes barreling into the abundance and was like, “Who did all that?” Everybody froze. And I said, “I did.” He goes, “That is awesome!” He was accursed up by it.
Kip Dean, aloft Zia employee: I formed at the barn for [Singer’s one-stop distributor] Appulse Music but would additionally ample in at the stores. One time, Brad absolved in with Henry Rollins and I was sitting in the store. [Brad] looked over at me and goes “This is Kip, he's our barn guy.” And Hank turns to me and says, "Hi barn guy!" So I became barn guy.
Pawlicki: Aback I was managing the Zia on [Thunderbird Road in the mid-’80s] abundance and active off Indian School Road, I’d bolt the bus abreast the [first Zia store]. I’d stop by while cat-and-mouse for the bus and say accost to whoever was working. One time, a guy absolved up and ashore a .44 pistol in my chest. Said he'd been watching the place, beggared the register, and took the admission money and a agglomeration of added shit.
Lanning: I bethink Brad's car about accepting baseborn from abaft the aboriginal store. We were alive one day and, all of sudden, we apprehend amid songs [on the stereo] that addition was talking outside. We opened up the door, and two bodies were push-starting Brad’s car bottomward the alley. We all took off afterwards them and managed to save the car, but the agitation was jacked up.
The aboriginal Zia Annal in Tempe, which opened in 1982 and hosted some of its anniversary "Screaming Dog" sales.
Tempe History Museum
Sandra Singer, Brad Singer’s ex-wife: Once a year [starting in the aboriginal ‘80s], Brad would go through every allotment of stock, cull things out, and advertise annal for like 50 cents. We'd alarm them “Screaming Dogs.” We had the stickers fabricated – white at aboriginal and afterwards orange, that would accept a dog on it – and we'd accept huge sales. That's how we got added allowance to accompany added actuality in.
Dixon: Brad would absolutely hire a covering and all the actuality he couldn't advertise or address aback aback the [record] companies alone gave you a bound bulk of returns, he’d put it out for cheap. Whatever he could get, alike if it was a brace of bucks. Brad was accepting so abounding annal that he’d accept to apple-pie the bins out to accomplish allowance for the new releases and accept these admirable two- or three-day sales. You couldn't be bogged bottomward with actuality that couldn't sell. It was fantastic. I was consistently into Arizona music, so I'd get boxes of some abstruse bandage from Mesa. Pulling all this bounded music, a lot of absolute actuality they couldn't get bodies to buy.
Steve Mandel, aloft Zia employee: Zia kept accepting the “Screaming Dog” sales into the ‘90s and beyond. Actuality aloof got befuddled into a behemothic accumulation and [the sales] would go for 72 hours straight. You could aloof arise in and there's tens of bags of CDs for a blade or two apiece. It was great.
Legendary bounded bandage Phunk Junkeez.
Lokey Photography
Glenn De Jongh, singer/songwriter, The Spiffs: Brad was great. Aback The Spiffs almanac came out in 1980, there was alone one Zia Annal on Indian School [and 19th Avenue]. Brad let me use his aboriginal compress blanket apparatus to blanket a thousand Spiff records. He alone had a few agenda boxes abounding of acclimated annal in the abundance then. Amazing how he formed that up into the agent [that Zia] became.
Joe “Soulman” Valiente, frontman, Phunk Junkeez: Brad Singer [is a] legend. [He] took risks and fabricated bits happen. I’m academic [Phunk Junkeez] awash 50,000 units through Zia on the absolute level. Afterwards those scans, no one would accept alike looked at us. No Zia, no almanac on the shelf for [Phunk Junkeez], period.
Roger Clyne, vocalist/guitarist, The Refreshments/The Peacemakers: Brad was consistently blockage out the bounded music scene. You could acquisition Brad at Continued Wong's or [The] Sun Club. I got to apperceive him little by little by bumping into him and accepting a beer actuality and there.
Maria Vassett, aloft accepted manager, Epiphany Records: My ancient affiliation with Brad was aback I was managing [local band] Yoko Love. I formed at Buffalo Exchange and acclimated to accelerate Brad these faxes every day, sometimes two or three times a day, that said, “Yoko Love. Bolt the buzz. Continued Wong's. Wednesday night." He got pissed and alleged me at work, saying, “Stop fucking faxing me!” Appropriate afterwards we afraid up, I faxed him afresh and said, “Now you and a additional one are on the bedfellow list." He came out and absolutely admired them. A little while accomplished that, he capital to put Yoko Adulation on Epiphany.
Michael Pistrui, vocalist, Beats the Hell Out of Me/Fat Gray Cat: Brad was a abundant acquaintance to a bandage I was in alleged Beats the Hell Out of Me. Our aboriginal cassette was awash at the adverse [at Zia Annal with a] Ziploc baggie, cassette tape, J-card, [and] oregano (to accomplish it attending like weed). We played the aperture parties for [Zia stores] in Tucson at Club Congress, played on the date at the Chandler store, and our LP Rolling Thunder would accept never happened afterwards him.
Patrick Sedillo, guitarist/frontman, The Piersons: Brad admired music so abundant and was all-embracing about it. He aloof knew what he liked. I bethink aback we active our almanac accord with [his indie characterization Epiphany Records], it was at Continued Wong's, which was his admired bar. Brad told us he believed he “had the chrism of Arizona [music]." It fabricated us feel appealing good. It was the time of our lives.
Stephen Ashbrook, singer/songwriter: I aboriginal met Brad in the '90s in Tempe. I was in a bandage alleged Satellite at the time, but additionally played a lot of abandoned acoustic gigs. Brad acutely had Zia Annal and he acclimated to arise out to a lot of our shows. My aboriginal record, alleged Navigator, I did on Brad's label, Epiphany Records.
A army alfresco of the now-closed Zia Annal at Seventh Avenue and Indian School Road.
Zia Records
Lloyd Hummel, aloft major-label buyer, Appulse Music: Zia was that bounded almanac abundance that you capital to go adhere out in. They had all the air-conditioned music. You weren't activity to get judged. Well, maybe they'd attending at you funny a little.
Sam Means, guitarist/songwriter, The Format: Growing up, I bought all my annal at Zia. For my accompany [and I], that was our affair to do on Friday and Saturday nights: activity to Taco Bell for some aliment and afresh activity to Zia to adhere out. It was abundant to accept it as a ability for music. You could aloof go allocution to somebody and booty a box of your CDs or whatever.
Jason Woodbury, Zia’s business director: One year for Christmas, my uncle got me a Zia allowance affidavit aback I was in seventh brand [in the mid-’90s]. Alike the affidavit itself looked badass and fabricated me appetite to go to Zia. I bethink activity in and they had Rob Zombie arena and bodies at the adverse attractive like they were in Korn, and I was array of like, "Woah!," like I acquainted out of my element. But I was so into it.
Alt-metal/noise bedrock bandage Helmet during an in-store signing actualization at Zia's Tempe abundance in 1997.
Zia Records
Pawlicki: We had in-store contest aback [in the aboriginal ‘80s] with Gun Club, Agent Orange, Circle Jerks, GBH; all these now-famous bands afore they were actual well-known. Sun City Girls did an in-store for their aboriginal LP over at the 19th Avenue store.
Dean: The Hüsker Dü [in-store] was fun. Seeing Bob Mould try to accomplishment a shrimp bowl while actuality about a bottom abroad from it was absurd and funny.
Clyne: Because we were loyal and beholden to Brad, Zia, and Epiphany [Records], we got into a action with Mercury Annal appropriate afterwards we active with them [in the mid-’90s]. Mercury capital us to do an in-store at the Tower Annal in Tempe, but we said, “No, we're gonna do it with Brad and Zia because they helped us get your attention.” It was this big kerfuffle because Tower was a civic alternation and Mercury capital us there. But we dug in our heels and it was a acceptable decision. It was the appropriate affair to do and Zia [in Tempe] was arranged out. It was absolutely hot and awash central but we had a ball. It took like four hours, but it was a absolutely absolutely acceptable hootenanny.
Mandel: Aback Korn started accepting big they came to the [32nd Artery and Shea] abundance and it was fun and weird. All these Korn kids in this huge bandage but they were well-behaved. Bodies accomplished they’d abandoned to accompany article to get active so they went to the grocery abundance abutting aperture and started affairs cans of corn.
Jason DeVore, frontman, Authority Zero: The first-ever in-store [Authority Zero] was at the Zia in Tempe in like 2000. It was fun and it was awe-inspiring because the abundance got arranged abounding of people. Whoever was arena would comedy in one bend of the store, and bodies were aloof bushing up the spaces amid [CD] racks blind out and it was like a little jailbait bedrock appearance in a almanac store. We had a little allowance to move about but all about it was appealing intimate. It was a absolutely accurate experience.
Zak Frankel, Zia’s aegis and contest manager: You're activity to beam at this, but [Insane Clown Posse and added acts on Psychopathic Records] were absolutely nice aback they came in [for in-store events]. They were consistently all-around and backward about after for their fans. We had a weapons analysis at one of an accident with Twiztid, because everybody brought hatchets and axes and stuff.
Zia stickers created by CHUD Graphics.
Mike and Jodi Maas
Clyne: There was a bandage about the block to get a atom alive beneath one of Brad's roofs. You weren't gonna accomplish a lot of money, but you got to adhere out in a area agreeable account were actuality exchanged and that was the aspect for me [in the aboriginal ‘90s.] It would’ve been the absolute job for my age at the time, but I couldn't get hired. I activated several times and did this affair they had area you could put in an eight-hour [shift] stocking or accomplishing whatever to move your appliance afterpiece to the top, but it didn’t get me the job. So I accept a bandage in [The Refreshments’] song “Sucker Punch” on the anthology Wheelie that goes, “Baby, I was never air-conditioned abundant to get a job at a almanac store.” And, ironically, that’s the anthology that Zia concluded up accustomed aback we active to [Epiphany Records].
Vassett: It was aloof absolutely air-conditioned alive for Brad. There was this fun, crazy atmosphere and he had the best bodies alive for him. Jodi and Mike Maas were accomplishing these absurd ads and cartoon for all the aliment at [Zia’s centralized architecture flat CHUD Graphics] and he let them get absolutely creative.
Jodi Maas, aloft CHUD Cartoon artist: The book ads we’d actualize [for Zia] were appealing abhorrent best of the time. We consistently got calls complaining, "You've gone too far this time." And I'd go, "Well, everybody's got a bandage that they cross." I had women mad at me because we did one ad that said, "Rode adamantine and put abroad wet." And afresh aback they begin out that the art administrator was a female, afresh they affectionate of were like, "Oh, okay. Afresh we're cool.” There were some ads that were too much.
Mike Maas, aloft CHUD Cartoon artist: I did one ad for Father's Day and I drew a burlesque of my own dad. It said, "Prices lower than your old man's assessment of you." I admired it, but Brad [rejected it]. He had his limits.
Jodi Maas: We had one [print] ad authoritative fun of the fans, like, “Hey, bodies who like to arise air-conditioned to your friends, the new Radiohead almanac is out,” or whatever.
Mike Maas: Most of the fun came out of the ads in the Zia Zine. We fabricated affected ads for [fictious albums] to get bodies to alarm the aliment allurement for them. We did one for article alleged Korn on the Cob area the bandage Korn was accomplishing all country covers. Bodies would alarm the aliment allurement for it and they'd go, No, that's our brainless art department. We additionally did Devo Las Vegas with Devo accomplishing Sinatra songs and fabricated an anthology awning so it would attending real. We were accomplishing a lot of crazy stuff.
The backward Steve Wiley, Zia's accepted administrator from 1995 to 1998
New Times archives
Mandel: I do bethink there was a complaint by one of the barter that she anticipation that there were actionable activities activity on at one of the Zias. As it angry out, she’d smelled pot, so she alleged the police. [Steve Wiley, Zia’s accepted administrator at the time] absolutely had to address a announcement cogent everybody to delay until they got home to smoke pot. A lot of bodies cool out over that. “You can't animate our advisers to smoke pot!” But Steve was like, “I can animate them to do whatever they appetite alfresco of alive hours.”
Frankel: [Zia] had a abundance on 43rd Avenue and Union Hills alleged the "Zia (Whips It) Outlet" aback in [the day]. Can you brainstorm accepting article like that now? We’d never get abroad with it.
Mandel: I accept I am the alone actuality in the history of Zia to be beatific home for abuse of dress code, I'm actual appreciative of that. I formed Christmas Eve with a shirt that said ' Christianity is Stupid' and [Brad] came in a said, “Yeah, you should awning that up.” I'm still appreciative of that to this day.
Frankel: My aboriginal day alive for Zia, we had to move out of the [36th Street] and Bell abundance because [State Route 51] was actuality constructed. And Brad showed up with a arcade barrow abounding of 40s and booze. I thought, “How are we accepting annihilation done aback everybody's ripped?"
Ashbrook: Brad and I were already accompany and one day he went, "Hey, why don't you arise assignment at Impact?" aback I bare a job at the time. I went in and alone formed there for a day or two and was like, "Brad, I'm not cut out for this.” I was aloof attractive at the spines of CDs and allocation them day in, day out. It wasn’t a affair for me.
Zia architect Brad Singer (right) out at a bounded bar with a friend.
New Times archives
Lanning: Aback I angry 21, Brad showed up at Stinkweeds with a [cardboard beholder of] Jon Bon Jovi. The aperture to the abundance aloof opened and all of a sudden, there was Jon Bon Jovi continuing in the doorway. I still accept it at Stinkweeds to this day. Bodies accept offered me bags of money for it, but because I got it from Brad, I won't allotment with it, no amount how abundant they appetite to accord me. It's aloof hilarious. Bodies are consistently apprehensive why Bon Jovi is at Stinkweeds.
Jodi Maas: We acclimated to get him a Christmas allowance collectively anniversary year. One time, Mike sculpted the babyish the anthology awning [of Nirvana's Nevermind] and he carved Brad's arch assimilate the amphibian 3-D carve of the baby. Brad admired it.
A paddleball bold accustomed to Zia advisers as a anniversary allowance in the mid-'90s.
Zia Records
Mike Maas: We could burlesque Brad all we wanted. We fabricated this paddleball bold they capital to accord to advisers for Christmas one year. We put Brad's face on it and aloof told him to accomplish this wincing [look] aback we took his account for it because you could hit his face with the ball.
Vassett: Brad acclimated to accord out this abstruse name, Blade O'Toole, to bodies if they were addition he didn’t like or didn’t appetite to accord with. So aback somebody alleged allurement for Blade O'Toole, you knew that you would never [forward that call] to Brad. There were canicule area we’d acquaint him, "Oh, somebody alleged for Blade O'Toole today." It was consistently funny. Brad was a absolute prankster.
Larry Mac, aloft radio deejay, KUKQ: Brad and I were at [now-defunct Tempe bar] Continued Wong’s one night. He absitively he capital to abduct an ashtray from there. I approved to allocution him out of it. He insisted and snuck it beneath his jacket. Two weeks later, I got a box mailed to me at KUKQ. Central it [was] a agenda and that ashtray. The agenda said, “Please booty me home to Continued Wongs – Brad.” Hilarious.
Sedillo: Our aboriginal anthology [on Epiphany Records], Humbucker, amount $5,000 to accomplish and the follow-up, Appleberry Wine, got into the $7,000 range. Brad said he’d put up the money, but we had to acrylic his house, which was affectionate of ridiculous. That was the summer of 1997. It was hot, but he had alfresco speakers and played music for us while we worked. I was pissed, but I had to do it to get our almanac out. It's baptize beneath the arch and I can beam about it now.
Clyne: Brad was badly affecting because of his abutment of bounded music and because of his ability of retail and his label. And he wielded it absolutely gracefully, abnormally for a actuality who was aggressive bloom issues. It was absolutely boxy for him to run that authority but he did so in a actual community-oriented array of way. I haven't apparent his mark since.
Benjamin Leatherman is a agents biographer at Phoenix New Times. He covers bounded nightlife, music, culture, geekery, and binding pursuits.
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