OFF THE WALL
THE ROLLING STONE INTERVIEWS, VOL. 2 Compiled by the Editors of Rolling Stone (Warner Paperback library): Well, the Dylan interview is not Jann Wenner’s 1970 opus, but the material with Townshend, Van Morrison, Keith Richard, Rod Stewart (brilliantly done by John Morthland) and Ray Davies is all among the best published.
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OFF THE WALL
THE ROLLING STONE INTERVIEWS, VOL. 2 Compiled by the Editors of Rolling Stone (Warner Paperback library): Well, the Dylan interview is not Jann Wenner’s 1970 opus, but the material with Townshend, Van Morrison, Keith Richard, Rod Stewart (brilliantly done by John Morthland) and Ray Davies is all among the best published. We use it for reference, and if you’re still into doing rock term papers or something, you might want to, also.
LISTEN TO THE BLUES By Bruce Cook (Scribners):: Not great, but good solid blues coverage. Cook tries hard to avoid the pedantic pitfalls of most writers on blues, and for the most part, he succeeds. The memoir of his youth in Chicago, growing up with jazz and blues 78s is particularly well-done.
LUCKY SHUFFLES by Mark McGarrity (Grossman):: This book is even more scatalogical, angry, racist and wellwritten than his last one. Maybe he’s really Robot A. Hull? Not half-bad, but on the other hand, of course...
THE BOOK OF LONDON (Links):: Links Books is apparently going to be an interesting publishing house; besides “London,” an overdue American edition of the British magazine’s “Time Out’s” definitive work, they’ve Chris Welch’s great “Jimi Hendrix” and Tuli Kupferberg’s “As They Were.” We need a good hip publisher, of course, but more importantly, if you are thinking of going to Britain, soon, “Book of London” is the essential document. It will serve a CREEM reader far better for $2.95 than any other guide, at any price.
MIND DRUGS by Margaret O. Hyde (Pocket Books):: Yeah, but you already knew that. &
