October 1972
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Dear CREEM: I’m sick and tired of all these “avantgarde” freaks.
The Christgau Consumer Guide
THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
Joan Baez, David Bowie, Elton John, more
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Last night developments of the Stones tour: Gary Stromberg, house flack, put a piece of raw liver in the rose petals Mick threw out to the Madison Square Garden crowd; Chip Monck whip-creemed Jagger.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Any visitor to London in mid-July might easily have thought he was visiting the New York City of four summers past.
Features
HUMBLE PIE EAT OUT
Cameron Crowe
Humble Pie seem to be doing a good job of making it these days.
Letter From Britain
Magic Moments Catch A Falling Star
Simon Frith
July 15th Humdrum month, humdrum column. I'm incessantly chanting: You wear it well, A little old-fashioned but that's alright. I don't know what it means but it's airight, airight. The word is out:
The Only Thing Missing Was Sufis
Michael Rossman
I went down to this Conference on Consciousness thrown by a student group in Philadelphia. It was like a near late warning of the Seventies Consciousness Carnival. There was gurus to the left of us and gurus to the right of us.
A Selection From RINGOLEVIO
Emmett Grogan
The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
Art Is Cheese Made Visible
Jonh Ingham
Religious Frenzy With The Firesign Theatre
Features
The Emerging SOPOR Culture
Wayne Robins
“I’m Down, I’m Really Down”
The Low-Down On Sopors
Sopors, the drug for the young who think down, are the latest entry into the illicit pill sweepstakes.
Partying With The Stones (Briefly)
Vince Aletti
By the time the Stones tour arrived in New York, we already knew all about it: the shower of blood-red rose petals, the white jump suit, the belt whipped against the stage, the blaze of white light — as if from the opening of enormous windows — that bathed the final songs, even the songs themselves.
Creemedia
MOVIES
Duck, You Sucker, Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes
SHORT TAKES
SHAFT’S BIG SCORE - Scores a big, fat zero. Also includes the longest, least interesting climactic chase in recent movie history.
FLASHES
BOOKS
Hardening Rock, Poems by Patti Smith, more
Records
Listen To The Lion
After Tupelo Honey Van Morrison must have been faced with a choice.
Records
We Got No Principles!!!
SCHOOL'S OUT ALICE COOPER WARNER BROS As we all know, summer never lasts forever, and Alice was faced with the problem of rushing out a follow-up album before the leaves began to fall.
ROCK-A-RAMA
EARLY FACES - THE SMALL FACES (Pride — MGM):: I had this classic disc on a hideous German pressing, but Mike Curb (who has been the subject of many recent articles considering his auteur status) did it up right and it sounds great.
STARK REALIZATION