December 1978
CREEM
Will the next Pope be named George Ringo? Jim Coonan Baltimore, MD (Check it out, quim jim. Our votes are already cast.—Ed.) Dark horse entry in the pope sweepstakes. Cardinal Phil Lynott, gives his first official blessing after being elected Pope Jean-Luc Pontiff I.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
DAVID BEHRMAN: "On The Other Ocean / Figure In A Clearing" (Lovely):: On Discreet Music and the Fripp collaborations, Eno taught me to appreciate this kind of semi-improvised, semi-electric, semi-minimal trance and/or background music, but I think Behrman, a Soho/California composer who uses computers for chance input and builds his own synthesizers, does it better.
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
FLASH FROM THE STONES FRONT!!! A former employee of Mick Jagger is being sought after Lips dropped in on his Hollywood HQ to find $3000 in cash and $10,000worth of jewelry missing. Authorities are asking anyone who spots a person wearing a medic alert bracelet inscribed 'in case of emergency, please contact Studio 54", outlined in black and blue diamonds, to contact the L.A.P.D.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Rick Johnson
CHICAGO—Not so long ago I dropped by my neighborhood used-record shack hoping to complete my Archie Bell & The Drells 45s collection. As luck would have it, the soul kitchen was bare. So I stopped to kibbutz with the store manager, a music bookie of the first order.
KEITH 1947-1978
Letter From Britain
Wish I Was There
Simon Frith
What I did on my holidays was travel round the USA.
Features
AEROSMITH BEATS THE CLOCK!
Robert Duncan
The only aging rock star Is a dead one. -Joe Perry
KEEF: “I’ve Only Fallen Over Twice In 15 Gigs!”
Roy Carr
Herewith we give you the first injection of CREEM's infamous STONES TAPES.
Eleganza
DE-EVOLUTION OF A CREEMETTE
Love Doll
CHEZ TED
We Visit The lair of The Dog.
Features
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT WITH A CHEAP TRICK
Rob Patterson
It could be a warm summer night any where in America.
TV ’78: Thanks For The Mammaries
Rick Johnson
It's gonna be be ham ham on the lens, beef on the box and much rubbing of bitter puppets out in Viewerland this fall, and we've got nobody to thank but ourselves.
DRIVE-IN SATURADAY A Slice Of Life?
Edouard Dauphin
What do Night Of The Living Dead, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Pink Flamingos have in common? Besides being el trasho flicks, all three got new life by bejng revived for midnight shows at the Waverly—a Greenwich Village movie theatre where the films are as out of focus as the brains of the people in the audience.
Creem Profiles
NICK LOWE
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
Stars Cars
NANCY WILSON
Confessions of a FILMFOX
With Jack Frost nipping at your nose and Britt Ekland nipping at anything within claw distance, wedding bells are in the wind for more than a few of your faves: Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager have apparently ironed out their differences and plan to take the trek shortly .
Records
RAMONES GROW UP(?)
Mitch Cohen
"Sometimes timing is everything, you know?" "How do you mean?" "The worst week, that four game humiliation at Fenway, and Keith Moon dying a lunatic's death, and I caught this throat thing, and she couldn't, or wouldn't, find the time to come over—" "The Girl?" "The Girl.
ROCK · A · ROMA
DAVID COVERDALE'S WHITESNAKE— Snakebite (United Artist?)::Dave never got the acclaim that his Purple predecessor Ian Gillan did but this LP slithers right past Ian's solo excesses. It's neither painful nor poisonous as the title suggests, just solid English stomp, not unlike Crawler.
Rewire Yourself
Penis Envy On The Audio Circuit
Bill Banner
I guess year end is as good a time as any to ruminate about the state of the art.
Extension Chords
Foghat: Rigs Revealed
Allen Hester
On the afternoon of Foghat's most recent concert appearance in Memphis, I interviewed the band and road crew as they made preparations to headline a bill that included Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and the Hounds in the Mid-South Coliseum.
Backstage
BACKSTAGE
Where the Stars Tank Up & Let Their Images Down