Published posthumously after Joe Cole’s 1991 murder, Planet Joe collects the tour journals he kept while working as a roadie through the final Black Flag tour and the early Rollins Band years.

This is a punk document, travel diary and extremely unvarnished memoir. It's all cheap rooms, endless drives, drugs, hostility, boredom, shows, interpersonal friction and stretches of almost catatonic exhilaration. Cole was Henry Rollins’ close friend and roommate, but the vantage point remains distinctly his own — adjacent to the stage rather than on it.  The writing catches American underground touring as actual lived infrastructure: vans, load-ins, dead time, local weirdness, exhaustion, isolation. A genuinely great artefact of 1980s US punk precisely because it feels written before anyone involved knew they were making history. 

Super scarce. 2.13.61 Publications, Los Angeles. Fourth printing. Paperback. Moderate shelf wear to covers, with rubbing, surface scratches and light edge and corner wear; small crease to upper corner. Internally clean and unmarked; binding firm. Very good condition.