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MAIL Dept., CREEM Magazine P.O. Box P-1064 Birmingham, Ml 48012

POLLING FOR DOLLARS

Fresh from reading your Readers Poll issue, I can understand your not wanting anything to do with it. I know I don’t, and ! voted. It’s embarrassing.

I thought I was going to be excited to see the results ’cause I was excited by music this year. Now I feel I have NOTHING in common with fellow readers anymore, and for that I am grateful.

Now please keep some perspective for ’85. Talk about Billy Idol, Kix, Sharks!, Bronski Beat, Hooters, Belfegore, PiL, Siouxsie/Banshees—for me, anyway. I mean, you at CREEM have your little self-indulgences— what with yoo-hoo, Binky and so many others. So you can do something for me this year.

Your magazine’s funny, but I sense an overload of heavy metal coming, more than even a metal caption seeker could put up with. And what’s fun now is gonna get real boring real quick. I know that I’m taking this issue outside and I’m gonna bury it under the snow. Pronto.

K.S.

Lancaster, PA

RIDICULOUS REQUEST!

I hate rock critics who say Madonna has terrible music and say she’s “sex for sale.” Some people have heard albums of hers and hate them (at least they heard them), but the others are up to their necks in shit. They should listen to the albums, then decide.

Ben Shirer LaJolla, CA

(What, to kill themselves?—Ed.)

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE SALUTATION Just a few lines on what’s good and bad about your publication.

GOOD: 1) The constant improvement in J. Kordosh’s writing, the constant silliness of Rick Johnson, the fanaticism of Richard Riegel, the good taste of Billy Altman.

2) The photographers’ depth-of-field.

3) The record reviews (for the most part).

4) Rock ’n’ Roll News.

BAD: 1) Jeffrey Morgan’s fluctuations of rightness (right about Bob Dylan, wrong about Billy Squier).

2) Jon Young’s attitude.

3) Liking Lenny Kaye (unpardonable sin).

4) Spending too much time on Motley Crue.

There are more items in each category, but these are the most key of the bunch. Please print this letter. I’ve read CREEM for 12 years now and would like to know what other readers think of what I think. Thank you.

Paul Akstulewicz

Menasha, Wl

TRUTH IN PUBLISHING!

I am a student at Waterford Mott High School and I am in a Mass Media class. We are conducting a research of different ways that media get to the homes of Michigan and all around the country, and I was wondering if you could answer a couple of questions for me:

1. How do you get advertisers for your magazine?

2. How do you get the stories for your magazine?

Gary Ryden

Waterford, Ml

(1. Basically, we beg. 2. We maintain active communication with the keenest critical minds in America. Then we call up our regular writers and see if they’ll do it.—Ed.)

RIDE. RIDE, RIDE ...HITCHIN’ A RIDE

Three times I’ve mistaken Lita Ford for Vince Neil of Motley Crue.

R. Rex

South Jersey, NJ

BE 0...N0 LONGER LONELY

Fuck you, Bill Holdship! I want you to realize how pissed off I am at that remark you made in CREEM’s ’85 March issue in the Dokken article.

You wrote “I get a little depressed when we get letters from 13-year-old girls who want to play spin the bottle with Motley Crue.”

I mean, who do you think you are, Bill? I’m a 13-year-old girl and if I had the chance I’d hop in bed with any other (sorry Mick) Motley Crue member. What do you think we are? I’m old enough to buy, read and understand your magazine.

Fuck you Bill!

S.K.LB.D.

Brockton, MA

(But are you old enough to remember the classic Fatty Arbuckle movies?—Ed.)

EUTHANASIA!

Would it kill you to have something on the Cure?!!

Cathy Falanga

Palos Verdes, CA (Probably.—Ed.)

EVERYBODY’S TALKIN’ SQUIER!

SQUAAAAAAAA-WA-WA-WA-WAAAAAAA! SQUAAAAAAAA-WAAAAAA-WAAAA-WA-WAWA-WA-WA-AAA-WA! MAG!! CHOW!

Charley Great

St. Louis, MO

(Yes, honey—zucchini casserole will be great for dinner tonight.—Ed.)

FORCED TO PRINT THESE!

Is your May issue for real? There was actually something to read between “Beat Goes On” and the reviews. DiMartino likes Tears For Fears? Odds were he had to like something, somewhere on some piece of vinyl. But an article that long without any putdowns (well, he did quote the British press but only to contradict it). I guess there is hope for those of us

tired with the same old Crue/ Ratt/W.A.S.P. jokes. They may be all that their music (sic) implies, but we readers deserve more—like an expanded “Beat Goes On” section. Anyway, I’m really writing to find out about subscription renewals. I’ve heen subscribing for 15 years or so and have never received a renewal notice; I just keep sending in my money from time to time. So where do I stand? You can’t need my money as badly as I do—or Ronnie Reagan does—but....

Beatifically yours,

Wylie Smith Hadley, MA

Firstly I would just like to say something to the tit in the March letters column who so proudly calls herself the finger (does her mother know?). If you don’t mind I have a few questions to ask her: a) How can you shoot someone with your finger nails? What is wrong with the name Dave DiMartino; it’s not his fault he has better taste than you do.

Finally, I would like to thank (and send a box of flowers) to Dave DiMartino. What a great guy. I hardly ever buy CREEM anymore bebecause I’m sick of headbanger articles. Yesterday, after getting tired of looking at Duran (barf!) on the cover of Teenbeat and 16 I spotted CREEM. Guess whose name was on the cover? You got it—THE CHURCH! Dave DiMartino is not a retard and happens to have great taste in music, almost as good as me. He has more CHURCH records than I do, but don’t worry Dave, I’m getting more from my sister in Paris.

Nic Raundau Winnepeg, Canada