July 1973
Creem
Have you ever sat and read your magazine? It’ll knock you on your ass. Here I am sitting by myself laughing my ass off. I’ve read the entire Feb. issue in one sitting (a 12 pack and a bottle of wine) and loved it. Keep it up Lester Bangs and the rest.
ROCK ’N’ ROLL NEWS
According to a member of their entourage, Rolling Stone Keith Richard may soon be a man without a country. He can’t get back into England because of tax problems, and his recent in-absentia French drug bust is making it hard for him to go anywhere else.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Gary Kenton
Paul MeCartney’s latest adventure in mass culture, his ABC-TV special, was so bad he can hardly be blamed for doing it under a pseudonym. “James Paul McCartney” probably wasn’t a bad show, considering that its star has been dead for several years, but it did bring out everything that is stereotypically vapid and sterile in the Estranged Beatle.
DUEL TO THE DEATH: PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID
Dave Marsh
I don t know whether Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid will be a great rock’n’roll western or merely a machismo wetdream.
UTTER TRASH
Mike Baron
A certain animosity seems to have grown between the West Coast underground publishers and Krupp Comics Works in Milwaukee, with the former accusing the latter of being the (shudder) Charlton of underground comics. But this bad blood is generated in part by great distances and lack of understanding, plus Krupp’s dogged determination to publish certain stinkers, such as the adolescent wet-dreams of Richard “Grass” Green.
Extension Chords
Copping Sound: Basic Hints For Amp Shoppers
Michael Brooks
For me to sit down and tell you the exact amplifier you need for your gigs would be at best ludicrous.
Features
Deaf Mute In A Telephone Booth
Lester Bangs
A Perfect Day With Lou Reed
Features
Waylon Jennings
Chet Flippo
“If I Was Everything People Make Me Out To Be, I'da Been Dead Long Ago”
Features
T. Rex: "What They Tried To Do With David Bowie Was Create Another Marc Bolan."
Cameron Crowe
Just eighteen months ago, T. Rex was being loudly heralded as the next big thing. It didn’t happen.
Features
Johnny Winter: Back & Kicking
Ben Edmonds
The house is an easy hour by car from the wall-to-wall insanity of mid-town Manhattan, situated in one of the bedroom communities just over the Connecticut line.
PLAY IT LOUD
Guitar Arnie
“Holy Patchchords! Would you look at that guitar!” “Have no fear, Boy Howdy, it’s the new XES.” Electronics are for everybody. A simple statement with loads of implications. All those transistor radios and color tvs we feed on were created by little men who understand how electronics work, even if they aren’t doped up enough to really apply that understanding to perceptions of the future.
Rewire Yourself
Delivering The Dope On Dealer Discounts
Richard Robinson
The problems associated with buying hi-fi equipment are numerous, beginning, of course, with just what to spend your money on in terms of equipment performance and value.
LEMONADE SPRINGS
Sandye Carroll
One man’s security food is another man’s gas pain. During fits of depression, many of my friends turn to chocolate milkshakes, cheeseburgers, or peanut butter sandwiches to raise their spirits. Yech! Next to a friend, my favorite antidote for depression and loneliness is a fresh batch of tortillas, adorned with refried beans, pickled onions, guacamole or a fresh tomato salsa (sauce).
Eleganza
Soul Train Rules
Lisa Robinson
In the 1940’s white women really wanted to look like Ann Sheridan or Joan Crawford and they would run home after seeing movies like Mildred Pierce and sew shoulder pads into their gray serge suits.
Creemedia
Movies
Nick Tosches
Payday, The Five Fingers of Death
CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX
Back again for more news, spews and clues to what’s happening world round in the Movie Maze ... Vincent Price, presently seen in Theatre of Blood, is making his twenty-second movie for AIP, The Revenge of Dr. Death. Can’t wait ... Warren Beatty stars with Paula Prentis in Alan J. Pakula’s (Klute) The Parallax View.
SHORT TAKES
Paul Varjack
SLITHER (MGM) — This one’s a very strange movie about a group of lower middle class wackos running all over Southern California searching for some embezzled funds that got stashed away years ago. Lots of good working class touches: laundromats, tuna fish sandwiches, mobile homes, dinners of Dr. Pepper and corn on the cob.
BOOKS
Robot A. Hull
There used to be this twerp in my high school gym class who would constantly follow me around, and every time I’d squat down during exercises he’d reach under between my legs and start twisting my nuts. I’d always try to get loose, but he’d whisper something in my ear like: “Don’t make nary a move, buddy, or I’ll cut off your testicles in the locker room and rub the blood all over your face.”
OFF THE WALL
R. McGarvey
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BROWN BUFFALO by Oscar Zeta Acosta (Straight Arrow): If you�ve read Hunter Thompson�s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, you probably wonder who Dr. Gonzo, a boozing, doping Samoan therein, is. Well, he�s really a Mexican lawyer, and this is his autobiography.
Records
HI! We’re John, George, Paul & Ringo: Remember Those Fabulous 60s?
Lenny Kaye
Without a doubt, the sixties belonged to the Beatles.
SPECIALS
Mitchell S. Cohen
Tempus fugit. Down at the recent GOP convention, actress Terry Moore announced to a group of Youths For Nixon that among many other acts, Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons would be appearing at the evening�s Rock �n� Roll Revival Re-election Rally.
ROCK-A-RAMA
THE BEATLES — 1962-1966, 1966-1971 (Apple):: Great group w/hit potential galore. Quartet clefs own material exclusively, performs in variety of styles ranging from hard rock loaded w/teen appeal to quiet ballads (�Yesterday�). Hot chart possibilities — watch closely, Mr. Retailer!
Juke Box Jury
GREG SHAW
What a dull month. The great records have mostly slipped away after futile stabs at the charts, with the everpresent mediocrity surging once again into the breach. Dawn, Vicki Lawrence, War, Anne Murray, Stealers Wheel, Steely Dan, Helen Reddy, Roberta Flack, Skylark — I don't want to talk about that stuff! Forget it.