Boy Howdy!- CREEM Magazine to return

[Recyclerz]

Rising to the top again (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Creem-Magazine.html)

For you whippersnappers, CREEM magazine was the cool alternative to Rolling Stone way back when I was young. (Kind of like Spin was before it went corporate.) I have no idea what the best current analogue would be, having grown too old to care much. ;p

Lester Bangs was the star writer/personality of the rag. If you're interested in the early days of punk, particularly in NY, a few retrospectives of his writing have been published recently. He was always fun to read; I haven't read any of the new books and can't review any of them for you.

Bitter irony alert: CREEM were big supporters of KISS back in the day; I would not have guessed that they would be all that survived.



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King Solomon, he never lived 'round here.

[mikeyboy]

Didn't they already try to bring Creem back once already?

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[JustJon]

Let's not forget the tour de force that was Phillip Seymore Hoffman's performance in Almost Famous as Lester Bangs.

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[JohnnyCash]

We need a good music magazine. Rolling Stone sucks and so does spin. The only one worth reading is NME magazine from England.

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[high fly]

One of the things I really liked about Cream was they'd print very unflattering photos of rock stars and put silly captions under them.
They fucked with everybody, even their subscribers.
My best friend then, and now, had a subscription and often the issues would come late, then he'd get the next issue a week later.

Damn, I miss Lester.

For you youngsters interested in the roots of punk and rock and want to read a great, informative, funny book about it all, you've got to get a copy of Lester Bang's Psychedelic Reaction and Carburetor Dung.
Not only will you gain much insight into the music, but you'll also get some of my more obscure references that otherwise you wouldn't understand.

" and they ask me why I drink"

[mikeyboy]

One of the things I really liked about Cream

No need to correct. It is CREEM. (http://www.creemmedia.com/)

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[high fly]

Thanks, MIKEY.

Boy do I feal dumb.

" and they ask me why I drink"

[high fly]

Some of my posts contain Creem references that, as Bennington sez, are just for me.

One of them is the repeated references to Metal Machine Music.

Another is the "fish sticks" line that I tire not of using. It's from my fave album review of all times. The entire review was: "Last night we had fish sticks."
I think it was from that "robot"guy (whatever his name was, I forget).

(edit) GOT IT! Robot Hull was his name. Hoo boy, that one was lodged up there by the duodenum.

" and they ask me why I drink"

This message was edited by high fly on 11-29-03 @ 4:40 PM