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Dear CREEM: There’s a thing that needs straightening out.
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Mike Gormely
Mickie Most (who has produced everyone from the Yardbirds to Donovan) has formed RAK records.
LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS WILD MEN
Michael Ross
I hope Wild Man Fischer never has to grow up.
Features
DAS HIP KAPITAL
Craig Karpel
Capitalists will always try to co-opt you. You have to be able to co-opt them.
Jugs, Washboards, Kazoos and Orange County
Bobby Abrams
The Return of Spencer Davis
Dave Marsh
Spencer Davis suffers from a peculiar affliction — his name is tied inextricably to that of Stevie Winwood, it’s almost certain that, first time around at least, he’s in bad shape. Even if Winwood hadn’t split the Davis Group after their two smashes, (their only two, aside from a minor jam called “Time Seller” that flitted in and out of the charts [with equal rapidity] in ’68 somewhere), Davis would probably still be a non-entity.
Winter Soldier Investigation
Nick Medvecky
"Brothers and sisters the time has come to testify"
SAN FRANCISCO BAY OIL
Jack Hafferkamp
The good the bad and the slick.
Features
BEANTOWN GET-DOWN
If you don’t have the J. Geils Band album, don’t try to talk to me about what’s happening.
Loony Toons
Dave Marsh
Rock and roll begain in a twilight zone, a pure thing swirling in out of a pretty pristine void.
ROCK DIARY
John Mendelsohn
How unspeakably fantastic it was to see the TAMI show, again, the other evening, for the first time since its original release in 1965!
Creemedia
Stones Flick: Gore & Gimme
John Kane
It’s like waking up on a Sunday morning in 1963 and sitting down to watch the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald on national television while a rock ’n roll album blares forth in the background.
Creemedia
THE AGE OF ROCK, VOL. 2
Kathleen Westray
Random thoughts about The Age of Rock 2 on a nasty day in New York and aren’t they all.
SPORTS
Sonny Liston was a Taurus. Do you know what that means?
Juke Box Jury
Greg Shaw
BLACK 45’S
Gary Von Tersch and Lee Hildebrand
These two West Coast singles bring back the sound of the teenage fifties.
Records
RECORDS
Captain Beefheart, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Frank Zappa, The Kinks, more