THE COUNTRY ISSUE IS OUT NOW!

June 1976

CREEM

Mail

Please send letters to: MAIL Dept., CREEM Magazine P.O. Box P-1064, Birmingham, Ml 48012 ZERO DE CONDUIT Dear Stan & the Gang, 1 just heard this today: when the soldiers come we’ll smother them with flowers. Do I get a noprize? Sincerely, Mark Alexander Longden Hall Kent State University (Neil Young has plans for you.

CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

BAD COMPANY: "Run With the Pack" (Swan Song):: This rocks better than anything these guys or Free ever made — the dynamics shift nicely, the tempos have picked up, and the album includes 10 (why, that's almost 11!) different tunes. What's more, Paul Rodgers is singing like a virtuoso, which in a way is the problem.

ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS

They're still at it: Reports have it that lawyers for all four of the Beatles are meeting in L.A. to further discuss promoter Bill Sargent's reunion offer: latest word isthat a concert might happen July 5 at Montreal's Olympic Park. Meanwhile EMI has re-released all 22 Beatles singles, and all are currently in the British charts.

THE BGAT GOGS On

Susan Whitall

THE MARQUEE, LONDON —"Hurry up, they're having an orgy on stage," said the bloke at the door as he tore the tickets up. I waded to the front and straightway sighted a chair arcing gracefully through the air, skidding across the stage and thudding contentedly into the PA system, to the obvious nonchalance of the bass drums and guitar.

Letter From Britain

Q: Why Do Limeys Love C&W?

Simon Frith

We don't have rednecks in Britain.

Present at the Creation

Lisa Robinson

An Exclusive Interview With Ian Stewart, The Real Sixth Rolling Stone, On A Decade And A Half In The Stones Brigade

Creem Profiles

KEITH MOON

(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)

Features

INNOCENTS IN BABYLON

Lester Bangs

The first thing that should be established is that I was only in Jamaica for a week, and there is no way to compress Jamaica or its incredibly rich music scene into one week, or one article.

TED NUGENT SHOOTS UP!

Craig Owensby

Rabbits, crocodiles. Grand Funk, Angus cattle, 14,000 people, two criminals and just about everything else in sight.

ROXY MUSIC

Kathy Miller

Laissez faire or Every Man For Himself?

Every Day Is St. Patrick’s day!

Robert Duncan

Willy has just returned from Los Angeles where he has found the perfect drug.

BAD COMPANY: A Bunch of Sissies?

Nick Kent

You don't have to wear mascara, you know...

Punk Is Forever

Robert Duncan

Living on unemployment: like a long-term money-junkie, only lazy and sucking on the government tit.

Confessions of a FILMFOX

Jaan Uhelszki

When the cat's away.. .the mouse just sulks. At a recent Queen press party in Hollywood, Rod the overgrown Mod was caught by the local paparazzi having a bit of a tete a tete with Susan George. (Rod does seem to have a penchant for summer blonde actresses.)

Rewire Yourself

Preserving Iggy For the Ages

Richard Robinson

Suppose somebody invented a fluid to spritz on records that protected them against scratches, finger prints, and wear from repeated playings?

Stars Cars

Buddy Miles

Neal Preston

Eleganza

Dr. Feelgood vs. The Discophiliacs

Lisa Robinson

When we started playin" in London, we were just walkin" onstage in our street clothes," said Wilko Johnson.

Records

5 DEAD IN AIR DISASTER!

Robert Duncan

Speed of Sound is the nadir.

Sonny Rollins’ Basement Tapes

Joe Goldberg

The subject of the interaction between art and technology in music is a long and complicated one. Electricity has changed the properties of musical instruments, first with amplification, then with the invention of entirely new instruments — synthesizers.

ROCK-A-RAMA

PATTI SMITH GROUP - "My Generation" * (Arista) (45' rprri) :: The "A" side, "Gloria," you've heard; it's "Generation" (recorded live in Cleveland, Ohio with John Cale on bass) that you'll want to own this for. The band is loose, even sloppy — Patti so stoned she can't even remember the third verse, Cale so drunk that the bass solo sounds like an eighth-grader attempting Entwistle..,