April 1973
Creem
I just listened to All The Young Dudes, (the album) The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and Lou Reed’s Transformer, and then Country Joe and the Fish’s “Who Am I?” True words, huh? Danny Barhydt Los Angeles, Ca. Dear CREEM: I just got the Duane Allman anthology and upon slippin’ and slidin’ along with “Down Along the Cove,” my most recent ancestor (mother) tol’ me to turn it down before I woke the dead.
BARNEY $ MIKE
Bot Wilon
THC CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
It happens every year. I spend most of December reviewing 1972, and in the process I almost inevitably miss some of 1972 at the same time. Below, you’ll find at least three very good records, as well as a number of bad ones, that appeared towards the end of the year.
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL NEWS
Final statistics on the Stones’ Nicaragua benefit. Final gross was $516,810. 1,976 tickets went for $100, 7,439 for $25, 8,079 for $15 and a mere 1,205 for $10. That’s the highest grossing one night in history. After being banned from appearing in Japan (“because of his marijuana conviction,” the government says, though Jagger denies it) Mick Jagger told Earth News that “governments are building so many barriers around him and other members of the Rolling Stones that ‘they may well beat us down.’ ”
THE BEAT GOES ON
Tom Miller
Next time you’re driving down route 290 between Austin and El Paso, be sure and visit Ozona, the richest town in the world. It’s only a couple hours north of the Mexican border and it has the only good all-night truckstop en route, the M&M Cafe.
Cherry Vanilla... with scoops for you
The three essays below constitute the second installment in a continuing CREEM series designed to bring Cherry Vanilla to the world, for which we may or may not be forgiven. For Cherry -poet, author (the soon-to-be published The First Few Days of A Decade — As Seen Through the Eyes of A Tart) musician, narco conjuress, star of stage and screen, world traveller and confidante of the rich, the famous, the beautiful - has been there wherever, whenever the strange changes were going down in the Sixties.
Sex Lives of the Rolling Stones: Competition Results
But what a competition!
Letter From Britain
Let’s Drink To The Hard Working People
Simson Frith
Limping along, two months late as usual, but I’ve only just read the CREEM special issue, and I’ve got my own Stones’ stories to tell.
Features
Alvin Lee: The Invulnerable Bullock
Lester Bangs
Just ask the rest of the band...
Cooking By The Book
Sandye Carroll
I love to read cookbooks. I read them when I’m hungry but can’t eat, when I want to travel but can’t go, and when I want to learn about how other people live, but don’t know any other people. But I’ve had to wade through a lot of shit lately trying to find a few worthwhile cookbooks.
Features
Gary Glitter
Dave Marsh
Garbage Rock Comes of Age
Features
...AND NOW SPIDER-MAN AND THE MARVEL COMICS GROUP!
Mike Baron
The Marvel Age of Comics has its beginnings with Timely Publications whose Publisher, Martin Goodman, brought out the first Timely comic magazine, Marvel Comics, in 1939.
Marvel Comics Heroes & Villians
Terry Byrnes
movies
Robbie Cruger
Steelyard Blues, The Erotic Adventures of Zorro, The Getaway, more
CONFESSIONS OF A RILM FOX
What an exciting month! Lotsa movies in the making and lotsa actors on the make. Mama Sophia Loren gave birth to Carlo Ponti’s (her husband’s) second son, Eduardo. Guess another boy was a disappointment... Julie Andrews moonlights writing children’s books — her second, dedicated to that youngster, Muddy Waters, is called The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles . . .
SHORT TAKES
Across 110th St. — Three black men steal some loot from the mob, only to spend the rest of the movie running from the cops and the wronged crooks. It’s 110 minutes of unrelieved sadism, with a couple of torture scenes guaranteed to make you blow your cookies.
Rewire Yourself
Record Kumpanees All Krazee Now
Richard Robinson
In an effort to keep all their relatives working, the federal government engages in a variety of enterprises ranging from building rocketships to running a book company.
Sussing Out Sound Systems
Guitar Arnie
Fender fans will be delighted to hear that Leo Fender and company have come up with a brand new guitar to top their solid body line. It’s the Telecaster Deluxe and despite its ultra clean styling, it has a number of interesting features incorporated into its design.
BOOKS
Robbie Cruger
Since kindergarten comics, everyone looks at the pictures — in magazines, encyclopedias, movies.
OFF THE WALL
TO BE CONTINUED: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO MOTION PICTURE SERIALS by Ken Weiss and Ed Goodgold (Crown): Flash Gordon, Captain Marvel, Dr. Manyus (a benevolent genius who invented a serum to make black men white) Spy Smasher, The Ace of Scotland Yard, Dick Tracy, Zorro, Buck Rogers, The Masked Marvel, Terry & the Pirates, and more, more, more.
Todd’s Electric Exploitation: Rock and Roll for the Skull
Patti Smith
Ya know where Greaser’s Palace ends? That solar burst. The zoot suit Jesus returns to light. Physical atomic end. Well that’s where Todd’s record begins.
Juke Box Jury
GREG SHAW
A few months back I suggested a campaign to start thinking in terms of �pop music� again, instead of all this �underground rock� twaddle. It was a good idea, but unnecessary. Pop is coming back, the best rock is on singles, and as we�ve seen over the last few months these great singles are actually hitting the charts.
ROCK-A-RAMA
YOKO ONO - Approximately Infinite Universe (Apple):: Boy, I thought the Process was after me! Every day for a week I kept getting these weird letters in the mail with strange symbols in them. I had visions of a group of cloaked figures, reciting incantations over a sacrificial altar in my honor each time another one of those letters arrived.
Hank Williams
John Morthland
Where to begin an article about Hank Williams!