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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.

CONTENTS

MAIL

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.