TAPESTRY

Dear CREEM:

I just figured it out! Budgie is Black Sabbath imitating the Stooges. Same producer in Roger Bain. And the vocalist is Carole King singing through a megaphone choking on Iggy’s oil rag jock strap. They’re just what we needed — an English group that could do the Iggy Pop Bop!

Scott Fischer Florissant, Mo.

(Yeah, but just wait til the real Original himself comes roaring back from Merrie Olde.. '. - Ed.)

NO WAY OUT

Dear CREEM:

Well, it’s finally happened: Mike Saunders scored a copy of “No Way Out.”

Whooooee!

The singer is Joyce Harris, who also wrote the song, and the record is Infinity INX-005A. The flip side is a “Love Is Strange” rip off called “Dreamer,” also written by Ms. Harris.

Greg Shaw (who was instrumental, along with Mik£, in getting the record to me) thinks that it’s a Texas recording from around ’60 or ’61. It certainly has that raw, flat-out Texas sound.