June 1976
CREEM
Please send letters to: MAIL Dept., CREEM Magazine P.O. Box P-1064, Birmingham, Ml 48012 ZERO DE CONDUIT Dear Stan & the Gang, 1 just heard this today: when the soldiers come we’ll smother them with flowers. Do I get a noprize? Sincerely, Mark Alexander Longden Hall Kent State University (Neil Young has plans for you.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
BAD COMPANY: "Run With the Pack" (Swan Song):: This rocks better than anything these guys or Free ever made — the dynamics shift nicely, the tempos have picked up, and the album includes 10 (why, that's almost 11!) different tunes. What's more, Paul Rodgers is singing like a virtuoso, which in a way is the problem.
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
They're still at it: Reports have it that lawyers for all four of the Beatles are meeting in L.A. to further discuss promoter Bill Sargent's reunion offer: latest word isthat a concert might happen July 5 at Montreal's Olympic Park. Meanwhile EMI has re-released all 22 Beatles singles, and all are currently in the British charts.
THE BGAT GOGS On
Susan Whitall
THE MARQUEE, LONDON —"Hurry up, they're having an orgy on stage," said the bloke at the door as he tore the tickets up. I waded to the front and straightway sighted a chair arcing gracefully through the air, skidding across the stage and thudding contentedly into the PA system, to the obvious nonchalance of the bass drums and guitar.
Letter From Britain
Q: Why Do Limeys Love C&W?
Simon Frith
We don't have rednecks in Britain.
Present at the Creation
Lisa Robinson
An Exclusive Interview With Ian Stewart, The Real Sixth Rolling Stone, On A Decade And A Half In The Stones Brigade
Creem Profiles
KEITH MOON
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
Features
INNOCENTS IN BABYLON
Lester Bangs
The first thing that should be established is that I was only in Jamaica for a week, and there is no way to compress Jamaica or its incredibly rich music scene into one week, or one article.
TED NUGENT SHOOTS UP!
Craig Owensby
Rabbits, crocodiles. Grand Funk, Angus cattle, 14,000 people, two criminals and just about everything else in sight.
ROXY MUSIC
Kathy Miller
Laissez faire or Every Man For Himself?
Every Day Is St. Patrick’s day!
Robert Duncan
Willy has just returned from Los Angeles where he has found the perfect drug.
BAD COMPANY: A Bunch of Sissies?
Nick Kent
You don't have to wear mascara, you know...
Punk Is Forever
Robert Duncan
Living on unemployment: like a long-term money-junkie, only lazy and sucking on the government tit.
Confessions of a FILMFOX
Jaan Uhelszki
When the cat's away.. .the mouse just sulks. At a recent Queen press party in Hollywood, Rod the overgrown Mod was caught by the local paparazzi having a bit of a tete a tete with Susan George. (Rod does seem to have a penchant for summer blonde actresses.)
Rewire Yourself
Preserving Iggy For the Ages
Richard Robinson
Suppose somebody invented a fluid to spritz on records that protected them against scratches, finger prints, and wear from repeated playings?
Stars Cars
Buddy Miles
Neal Preston
Eleganza
Dr. Feelgood vs. The Discophiliacs
Lisa Robinson
When we started playin" in London, we were just walkin" onstage in our street clothes," said Wilko Johnson.
Records
5 DEAD IN AIR DISASTER!
Robert Duncan
Speed of Sound is the nadir.
Sonny Rollins’ Basement Tapes
Joe Goldberg
The subject of the interaction between art and technology in music is a long and complicated one. Electricity has changed the properties of musical instruments, first with amplification, then with the invention of entirely new instruments — synthesizers.
ROCK-A-RAMA
PATTI SMITH GROUP - "My Generation" * (Arista) (45' rprri) :: The "A" side, "Gloria," you've heard; it's "Generation" (recorded live in Cleveland, Ohio with John Cale on bass) that you'll want to own this for. The band is loose, even sloppy — Patti so stoned she can't even remember the third verse, Cale so drunk that the bass solo sounds like an eighth-grader attempting Entwistle..,