December 1971
CONTENTS
Dear CREEM: Boy am I bummed. Last night I saw Two Lane Blacktop — if that wasn’t enough to take the edge off, I lost my September CREEM at the show.
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Sly Stone is being sued for $18,415.65 by Village Recorders in Los Angeles.
Eight People Go Crazy at Same Time
Danny Goldberg
Edgar Winter’s White Trash is probably the best evidence this side of Grand Funk that rock is not dead.
REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIQUE NO. 1
the black shadow
For some months, persistant rumors of guerrilla activity in the High Sierra had been going around the Bay Area.
LOONEY TOONS
Dave Marsh
So Lester Bangs came back to his Midwestern home after a lengthy farewell to Sweet Home San Diego; the best thing about that — in the aesthetic sense — is that El Bangs likes the new rock and roll better’n anybody. Not only that, he’s articulate.
Roller Derby: Pleasing the People
Wayne Robins
Hiawatha L. Harvell, black, 25, and like 12 million other Americans a fulltilt Roller Derby fanatic, prides himself on being the Bay area’s foremost hater of the San Francisco Bay Bombers.
A Who Primer
Dave Marsh
Hippity hop and flippity flop we’re off to see the Who.
Features
Black Sabbath Don’t Scare Nobody
Ed Kelleher
“I was standing out at the back of the club between sets and this guy says, ‘Is it true you’ve gone insane?’’
Features
Do The Godz Speak Esperanto?
Lester Bangs
Someday, someone should write a definitive story about the history of ESP records.
Creemedia
FILM
Medicine Ball Caravan, Omega Mn
Creemedia
BOOKS
The Elephant Man, The Family, more
Records
RECORDS
John Lennon, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Grateful Dead, more
JUKE BOX JURY
Greg Shaw