Joe Heaps Nelson is a former Iowan currently living in NYC. He is also currently exhibiting a show of paintings at the Wartburg College Art Gallery.
Back in the day, Joe lived in Des Moines and wrote Iowa "Scene Reports" for the punk rock zine Maximum RockNRoll (MRR). These were informal reports sent in by readers on the goings-on of the punk scene in their city, state, or country. These were often the more interesting part of the magazine, as they each gave a real sense of what different parts of punkdom were really like. Recently, I dug up one of Joe's old reports from MRR Issue #22 (February 1985). Click on the image for a larger view:
