BARRY D. KRAMER 1943-1981
(On January 29 CREEM publisher and founder Barry Kramer died at 37, just as we were going to press. Our business is words, but they rather fail us when it comes to describing someone who was the vital force behind CREEM—who was indeed, Boy Howdy! himself.
BARRY D. KRAMER 1943-1981
(On January 29 CREEM publisher and founder Barry Kramer died at 37, just as we were going to press. Our business is words, but they rather fail us when it comes to describing someone who was the vital force behind CREEM—who was indeed, Boy Howdy! himself. We immediately thought of Dave Marsh to attempt to write something, as he worked here as editor and knew Barry intimately at one of the most crucial points in CREEM’s history. He speaks for all of us.)
Dave Marsh
Barry Kramer started CREEM in the winter of 1969 with about $5,000 and his usual total conviction and ambition. The magazine was solely his, of course. The original idea came from an English clerk in Kramer’s Full Circle record store named Tony Reay. Charlie Auringer, Robin Summers, Deday LaRene and Sandra Stretke were involved from the first issue, and some fairly prominent people in the Detroit rock community were small investors.