THE COUNTRY ISSUE IS OUT NOW!

June 1971

CONTENTS

Mail

MAIL

Dear CREEM: About a year ago a friend introduced me r to CREEM. The mag filled in a gap that Rolling Stone didn’t quite close.

ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS

Disc and Music Echo, the British teen weekly, just published their pop poll for 1971.

D for the Dead

Robert Christgau

And the Dead were dead as a doornail.

Aretha and Ray Kick it Out

Jonh Ingham

Starring Tower of Power, King Curtis and the Kingpins, and Aretha Franklin

Demolishing the Record Cover

Pete Stone

LONDON — Hell. Curved Air seemed to pop up overnight and have taken a year to do it.

Bucky Fuller: The Cracking of a Geodesic Egghead

Kenny Fink

The other nite I went to see a fully accredited culture hero.

The Real Rock 'n’ Roll Underground

Greg Shaw

Do you ever get so sick of the latest Leon Russell or Ten Years After album that you switch off the FM radio in disgust and head for the closet to root out those old Elvis 45s you’ve had since you were a kid?

Since I Lost My Baby

R. Serge Denisoff

The pop way of death.

Features

High Times with Flash Cadillac

John Shaw

On receiving a call from the most prestigious public relations firm in the Los Angeles music world I had but one thought: “Oh shit.”

Features

ROCK-A HULA CLARIFIED

Greil Marcus

Our story begins just after midnight, not so very long ago.

RAZZ-MA-TAZZ FUNNEEZ

Looney Toons

Dave Marsh

It is the most supremely elegant piece of rock ‘n’ roll music I’ve ever heard.

WE ARE NORMAL AND WE WANT OUR FREEDON

John Mendelsohn

For your dining and dancing pleasure, some paranoid rantings.

Features

PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG

Lester Bangs

A Tale Of These Times

Creemedia

FILM

Richard Cromelin

Mad Dogs & Englishmen, The Sliding Pond, more

BOOKS

R. Serge Denisoff

What the world does not need is yet another rock Book. Charlie Gillett, Jerry Hopkins, and Carl Belz have done uneven but credible histories; and Jon Eisen and Greil Marcus have tapped a preponderance of good non-academic articles dealing with the subject.

ALI KO’S FRAZIER!

R. Meltzer

He knocked him out in the first round.

Records

RECORDS

Gran Funk, Swamp Dogg, Michael Nesmith, more

BOOTLEGS AND BARGAIN-BIN OLDIES

Len Bailes

BLUES RECORDS

Gary Von Tersch

BLACK 45’S

Gary Von Tersch and Lee Hildebrand

The types of black music currently being released on singles are as varied and numerous as ever.

Juke Box Jury

Greg Shaw