August 1976
'Waiter, there's a cockroach in my fortune cookie'...
This ain't the summer of love, but it looks like the kids on shakin' street are going to have some fun anyway. Here's what's already happened: Don't blame the promoters (Steve Glantz, Rob Clark) because you couldn't hear Aerosmith at their Pontiac gig; the P.A. system was the responsibility of the group, and should stand as a lesson in how not to sound at Ponmet.
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Please send letters to: MAIL Dept., CREEM Magazine P.O. Box P-1064, Birmingham, MI 48012 HOW DO YOU REAP You'd think that people would've had enough of Paul McCartney. I look around me and I see it isn't so. Some people want to rid the world of Paul McCartney.
STEVE DAHL: WHAT’S HE GOING TO DO WHEN HE GROWS UP?
At 6 a.m. every weekday morning, Steve Dahl mans the microphone at radio station WABX.
Let My People Stink
The Struggle of Birmingham's Rasta Community
The Next Jett Black
Kevin Knapp
Detroit, as of late, has been hard-put to uphold its reputation as Rock 'n' Roll Capital of the World.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
AMAZING RHYTHM ACES: "Too Stuffed to Jump" (ABC) :: This time the jazzy, boogie-based eclecticism and colloquial cleverness almost never transcend the cute and commercial, a major letdown after a debut album that may have fulfilled more promise than the group has.
ROCK'N' ROLL NEWS
Rona Barrett, are you listening? Bob Marley, of Rasta fame, and Maria Schneider, the curly-headed nymphet who romped through Last Tango in Paris with Morlon Brando, were seen together at a recent Los Angeles Dr. Feelgood concert. Look, we just report the news, we don't make it.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Clark Peterson
Who Is This Man And Why Is He Watching Us? BERKLEY, CA-"Nils Lofgren wants to expose himself to 50,000 people." Banner headline in the National Enquirer? An ad for the tool section of Popular Mechanics? Wrong, badger breath. It cometh straight from the yap of Bill Graham.
Bob Seger Overnight Success...Finally!
Lowell Cauffiel
"There it is," says Bob Seger, pointing his long arm to the west. "There's the hill I was telling you about."
FOGHAT: BEYOND THE SPAGHETTI PRINCIPLE
Air-Wreck Genheimer
Air-Wreck Genheimer
Features
Paul & Linda McCartney: BIONIC COUPLE SERVES IT YOUR WAY
Lester Bangs
Is there more between the buns than lettuce?
Letter From Britain
Is Disco The Real Avant-Garde?
Simon Frith
My favourite record company in England, Virgin Records, is the home of lost souls.
Creem Profiles
AEROSMITH
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
PETER FRAMPTON
Features
JEFF BECK GETS MELLOW (WELL...SORT OF)
Billy Altman
The conversation at the elegant French restaurant where we are dining is slowly but surely being drowned out by the increasing noise from the adjoining table.
ROCK LANDMARKS
From Woodstocks to Parking Lots
Rewire Yourself
Exclusive Interview WITH BIG BROTHER
Richard Robinson
Is something wrong with television? Yes.
TOO ROLLED TO STONE?
Charles Shaar Murray
The Continuing Stones' Saga, Live From Frankfurt, Germany
Extension Chords
TUBE OR NOT TUBE
Eric Gaer
Tube amps are best! No, solid state is best! No, hybrid amps are better!
CREEM DREEM
THE RUNAWAYS
Stars Cars
Rick Derringer
Creemedia
Harlan Ellison: Sci-Fi In A Jugular Vein
Tom McCarthy
Despite the strident campaigning of its adherents, science fiction has yet to break into the cultural mainstream.
DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
Edouard Dauphin
It's summer, and the flicker of the drive-in is seen across the land-. Time to stock up on Boy Howdy, stash the girls in the trunk, and head for the Dusk To Dawn, because Burt Reynolds is playing. Laugh all you want at the Burt Reynolds of late night television, (I generally switch over to Call To Prayer myself.) but over the past few years, he's been offsetting those Las Vegas obeisances by starring in the kind of cheerfully mindless trash that makes drive-in movie-going one of the joys of life, right up there with sex and chewy candy.
CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX
Jaan Uhelszki
Who's next? Roger Daltrey has captured the fancy of someone other than Ken Russell. Columbia Pictures gave Roger the nod and a starring role in the yet untitled mystery thriller costarring Mia Farrow and Dirk Bogarde. Dirk and Daltrey have something else in common besides this picture.
Eleganza
Louise Lasser Flips Her Wig!
Lisa Robinson
This has been some year for me.
Records
The True Inside Story of the Steely Dan Review
Joe Goldberg
The other day, I received a phone call from Lester Bangs, of this publication, saying that he would like me to review the new album by Steely Dan.
BOC: Any Old Way They Choose It
Billy Altman
After last year's virtually unredeemable double live LP set, On Your Feet or On Your Knees, it seemed that the Blue Oyster Cult had reached the point where all they were doing was beating a dead Jew Live albums by moderately successful bands striving to be highly successful ones are often a good ploy (we refer you to Kiss, Peter Frampton etc., probably Aerosmith soon —though it'll only be icing on the cake for them), but it doesn't always work out.
Backstage
BACKSTAGE
Where stars tank up & let their images down.