I've been writing this column on and off since 1972 and I just decided to stop. I’ve got other things to do and I’v said as much about Britain as I can for a while. Ever since the rise of punk, the difference between what’s happening here and what interests you there has been growing, and I’ve now lost a sense of what to write about.

The last CREEM I got had Tec Nugent on the cover again, and he’s a: insignificant for British music as Kissmore insignificant probably; he’s beer doing the same thing for longer Similarly, the British bands you like arc all old poseurs, from the Rolling Stones to Queen, routine showmen for whom 1978 was just another year. There is good American music, but the onh, thing its performers have in common— Ramones, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads, etc. —is that their pictures aren’t on the cover of CREEM.