August 1969
LETTERS
Dear Creem: The Emancipation show at Cobo Hall, July 12th was no ordinary soul show but a killer jam session in which recording artists came to do their thing and the audience grooved right along with them. I was happy to see that a lot of our white brothers and sisters came to dig the show.
WABX/CREEM MAGAZINE ROCK & ROLL NEWS
In Creem’s opinion, Saugatuck Pop Festival No. 2 was one of the most exciting pop festivals anywhere. Most of the groups turned in super performances with Wilson Mower Pursuit, Frost and Savage Grace as highlights of the two day affair. The Red White & Blues Band started the vibes off right by being the first band to receive a standing ovation.
an interview with peter townsend
Bob Fleck
Creem — How did the concert go last night? Townsend — It wasn’t a failure in positive terms.
the Grande, drugs, the audience and the Blues
the Grande, drugs, the audience and the Blues creativity. But I’ve been getting very simple buzzes out of other things. Creem — Do you think your creativity while you were taking drugs was inhanced? Townsend — Not by it immediately. Some people can work when they’re really stoned, but I never could, but I think that it did spark trains of thought and things.
"We aren’t Cream...” Rick Grech
Mike Gormley
Blind Faith, already the talk of the music industry, can demand $20,000 plus a percentage of the gate for one performance, and they haven’t even released a record yet. It’s happened because of the reputation of three-quarters of the four-man group.
1969... the Stooges
Perhaps the only band ever to physically intimidate their audiences has recorded its first Elektra album.
JAILHOUSE ROCK
Last Sunday the world’s largest prison was invaded by 23 freaks who blasted thirty-six hundred inmates with high energy rock & roll music. The concert was the culmination of a liason between the rock community and younger inmates. Creem and WABX began arranging the event soon after Dan Carlisle received mail from our many brothers currently residing in Jacktown.
THE JAZZ COMPOSER'S ORCHESTRA
Richard C. Walls
The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra — LP 1001 the selections are: Communications No.8; Communications No.9; Communications No.10; Preview; Communications No.ll, Part 1 & 2 This two-record set is put together by The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Association, Inc., a non-profit organization with Michael Mantler as its Executive and Artistic director and awhole lot of other people involved in trying to free the creative artist from the stigma of a money grub culture by getting together, making music, selling it and putting the money back in the art . . . our more creative artists are given an outlet, and we, the listener, benefit immensely by absorbing mankinds newest creations . . .
RUSS BUYS EASTOWN?
The ultimate up-to-date, last minute true reality, exclusive scoop on the Eastown affair. Russ Gibb wants to buy the Eastown Theatre, Bob Bageris, current impressario, wants to sell it. Gibb and Bageris have reached an agreement on purchase price and other liscensing and managerial details.
WABX/CREEM MAGAZINE
The UP plans to independently release their as yet unpressed single remain unchanged. The record, BE MY TOOTSIE ROLL b/w HASSAN I SABBA, is expected to mark the beginning of a world-wide revolution in music making, informed sources say. The history making smash will present universal concepts of production and assimilation of sound that agents of THE BIZ, knowingly or otherwise, have stifled knowledge of.
BLIND FAITH
The SRC - terrifying musical talents of Detroit, are going to release that great old standard Checkmate from Milestones. According to Pete Andrews, SRC manager, Dan Carlisle of WABX was instrumental in the decision to release Checkmate.
ROCK & ROLL NEWS
Ted Nugent, dangerous rock n roll guitar player spent some time in the Traverse City jail July 11, 1969. Ted has long been famous for his bizarre stage clothing, and has been known to wear such things as fish net pants, chains around his neck... the kind that you could pull a car with, and this time his indian outfit was a bit too much for local officers of the law.
CALENDAR
ART EXHIBITS AfroAmerican Artists. Drawings, paintings, prints. Children’s Museum. Thru August 22. Annual Summer Student Exhibit. Galleries, Cranbook Academy of Art. Thru Aug. The Art of the Poster. South Wing, Det. Inst, of Arts. Thru Sept. 7.
Brian Jones’ Last Detroit Appearance