Lester Bangs
THE LESTER LETTER
PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG
OF POP AND PIES AND FUN
KRAFTWERKFEATURE
I REMEMBER RAY
LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DEATH DWARVES
MONOLITH OR MONOTONE?
GET THE HOOK?
VISIONS OF OYSTER APOCALYPSE
Bob Dylan vs. Don Kirshner: Can You Tell the Players Without a Scorecard?
SEX AND THE ART OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL
Advice To The Linda Column
Where Do Aerosmith Get Their Guns?
Paul & Linda McCartney: BIONIC COUPLE SERVES IT YOUR WAY
INNOCENTS IN BABYLON PART 2
Creem CELIBRATES THE BICENTENNIAL!
State of the Art: Bland on Bland
EVERY MAN GOES GOLD
INNOCENTS IN BABYLON
HEAVY METAL: Brontosaurus M.O.R
Bob Dylan’s Dalliance With Mafia Chic
CHICKENHEAD COMES HOME TO ROOST
SLEEPER OF THE MONTH
A Critic’s Perspectives: THE GREATEST ALBUM EVER MADE Just In Case You Ever Wondered
JOHN DENVER IS GOD
If It’s Tuesday (or Wednesday or Thursday or...) This Must Be The Bar
APPOMATTOX REDUX
Pete Townshend’s LAST DETAIL
FACES HUDDLE FOR DEFENSIVE PLAY
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Hot Rod Rumble In The Promised Land
BARRY WHITE’S MAKEOUT TIPS
PUNCH & JUDY PLAY THE TOILETS
Steve Hunter & Dick Wagner: The Guitars That Destroyed The Stars
RICK WAKEMAN DROWNS IN SUDS!
Dandelions In Still Air: The Withering Away Of The BEATLES
SHORT TAKES
What Has 160 Teeth & Plays Soccer?
NOT INSANE. AND NOT FUNNY EITHER.
LET US NOW PPRAISE FAMOUS DEATH DWARVES
KILLER FROGS IN TRANSATLANTIC BLITZ
SHORT TAKES
Johnny Ray’s Better Whirlpool: The New Living Bowie
Getting To The Heart Of The Cracker
When In Doubt Kick Ass!
C’Mon Sugar, Let’s Go All-Nite Jukin’ With Wet Wille
Primevil Career: t=The Blue Oyster Cult
SHORT TAKES
I AM THE WORLD’S GREATEST GUITARIST
My Night Of Ecstasy With The J. Geils Band
David Bowie: Swan Dive into the Mung
ROXY MUSIC: Catch the Next Sensation
TRANSCENDENCE OF THE ORGASM
DADA AT THE END OF A FIST
BLOOD FEAST OF REDDY KILOWATT!
THE DR. HOOK STORY
NY Film Festival: There Are So Few Elite Activities Left
John Lennon: All the Dignity of Eric Burdon
Savoy Brown Is Not Dead
EAT YOUR MEAT (Cereal Division) Consumer Guide to American Burger Stands
David Bowie Flashes His Roots
Triumph of the Wretch
1973 Nervous Breakdown
Lou Reed: Brilliance You’d Hate To Get Trapped With
Party Jive You Can Live In
SCREWING THE SYSTEM WITH DICK CLARK
BOOKS
Mott: Triumph of the Dudes
Mark Farner’s State Of The Nation Address
Deaf Mute In A Telephone Booth
Slade Don’t Do No Rock Operas
Led Zep: Getting By On Blood & Iron
JETHRO TULL IN VIETNAM
Alvin Lee: The Invulnerable Bullock
“THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES”
I ONLY GET MY ROCKS OFF WHEN I’M DREAMING
Low Yo-Yo Stuff: Getting Closer to the Captain
The Shape of Jazz Today
PHAROAH SANDERS
Deep Purple Ain’t Schizoid!
JOHN COLTRANE LIVES
The Shape of Jazz Today
PHAROAH SANDERS
Loose As A Goose & Twice As Truthful
Bring Your Mother To The Gas Chamber: Part Two
He walks it like he talks it (usually)
The Macaws come home to roost
Bring Your Mother To The Gas Chamber
Anyone Tampering With This Machine
Pieties for the people
On the road to Marin County
Welcome to the Future (on 35mm Celluloid, where it belongs)
Ono, Raitt,Taylor and a pair of Lauras: Sisterhood is Powerful
Crabby Appleton Zaps the Zombies
ALICE COOPER: ALL AMERICAN
Do The Godz Speak Esperanto?
PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG
Dead Lie the Velvets Underground R.I.P.
POP AND PIES AND FUN: PART TWO
OF POP AND PIES AND FUN: PART ONE
I Remember Ray