October 1971
CONTENTS
Dear CREEM: On this warm San Francisco night, jobless and going down slow, I wandered into a late-night book shop.
DO IT?
There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be sending us your stuff.
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Marty Balin has left the Jefferson Airplane for good.
Rock As Electric Wallpaper
John Ingham
By Ian Anderson comes on by himself, hair rattier and more tangled than ever, his permanent costume of leather boots, pocketless pants and black and yellow checked coat showing rents and signs of wear, waving an acoustic guitar in acknowlegement to the standing ovation.
A Non-Story about Mott the Hoople
Ed Ward
It was kind of a routine. A group would come into town to play the Fillmore.
Beach Boys Hang Ten in Hotel Lobby
Toby Mamis
It’s been nine and a half years since the Beach Boys started out, singing “Surfin’ Safari” in Southern California, on New Year’s Eve, 1961.
LOONEY TOONS
Dave Marsh
Writing about writing is almost the equivalent of thinking about thinking.
Features
"Paint it Black You Devil!"
Richard Neville
You can’t always get what you want...
GOD SAVE OZ
As this issue went to press, Richard Neville, Felix Dennis and James Armstrong and OZ Magazine were convicted in London High Court of “publishing an obscene magazine."
Records
Sticky Fingers
Greil Marcus
...But if you try sometimes you get what you need.
Features
MC5 Back On Shakin’ Street
Dave Marsh
Few rock 'n’ roll bands have been saddled with such import, right from the beginning, as the MC5.
Records
The Wolf In London
Greil Marcus
Howlin’ Wolf, man . . . he’s the guts of America spilling out on the floor, that’s all.
And Sweet Home Chicago
Michael Goodwin
Fuck, man, Howlin' Wolf.
Creemedia
FILM
Taking Off, Neon Palace, more
Creemedia
BOOKS
The Beatles: A Study In Drugs, Sex, And Revolution, The Greening Of America, more
Records
RECORDS
Rod Stewart, The Who, Gladys Knight & The PIps, more
ROCK-A-RAMA
JUKE BOX JURY
Greg Shaw