THE COUNTRY ISSUE IS OUT NOW!

October 1977

CONTENTS

MAIL

CATERWALLING FOR CHARITY I was both appalled and surprised at an advertisement in your magazine. Your recent plea to your readers to save the Met is a joke! I never buy your magazine (I have better things to do with my money) but read it on occasion.

CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

Robert Christgau

In which Consumer Guide gives up the funk. Below find the beginnings of a retrospective re the recorded Parliafunkadelicment Thang, omitting Fuzzy Haskins solo, the Horny Horns, and God knows what other spinoffs. Funkadelic is a great group that doesnt make “good albums."

ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS

We've all heard about the CREEM editor who, upon meeting Paul McCartney, asked Linda “Hows the cook of the house?" (Her reply: “Ive got two hot dogs inside me right now.") Now Melissa Manchester shares her “I met Paul McCartney" story: Seems she was singing backup on Ringos last album when the McCartneys showed up at the studio to help Ringo put.

THE BEAT GOES ON

Rick Johnson

Everybody thinks its all peaches and CREEM being a rock critic. You wake up in the morning, crawl gingerly over the sleeping superstar (s) in your bed to the bathroom, where you ingest at least six different Exotic Drugs. Then you hop into your Mercedes, drive out to the Post Office to pick up all the free records, t-shirts, diamond-studded Supertramp belt buckles, etc., and zip back home, casually tossing Kiki Dee 45s to bewildered youngsters along the way.

CLIMAX BLUES BAND Get It Right!

Linda Barber

Backstage at the Royal Oak is a cement tunnel lined with pipes (remembrance of air raid drills past). The purpose of my journey into this summer night was to be entertained and, I hoped, enlightened, by a bluesy band known as Climax. Although none of the four members claimed to be the spokesperson, I chose to stick close to lead vocalist and sax/clarinet player Colin Cooper.

MINK DE VILLE: SUCK FUR FURY

Howard Klein

“Mink Pie, hows that!" challenged Willie, whose darkly silent, sinewy presence dominated the dimly-lit coldwater flat in Oakland.

MARSHALL TUCKER GETS IT UP, GETS IT ON, AND KICKS IT OUT

TOM DUPREE

A CREEM piece about any pop group oughta have at least one off-thewall thing about the group in question.

Features

LONDON’S BURNING!

MIKE FLOOD PAGE

Rock’s next generations?

Creem Profiles

KIKI DEE

(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)

THE RISE AND RISE OF PETER FRAMPTON

Penny Valentine

LONDON—“Im more confident now, thats the difference. Success brought me confidence and relief because I finally made it," said Peter Frampton, leaning back into the fat soft cushions in his suite at the Ritz. He was in London on this midsummer day to attend to personal business, mostly.

Pretty Vacant

Simon Frith

To tell you the truth, nothing at all happened this month. I didnt go to any gigs—none I can remember anyway— and I cant get worked up, like the rest of the rock press, about the Summer of Hate—new wave groups and fans getting beat up, etc. All thats happening, that I can see, is that the papers are reporting little local difficulties rather than concentrating on the superstars like they usually do.

PINK FLOYD’S HEART OF DARKNESS

Ira Robbins

A crash course in Pig Latin.

AT THE ZOO WITH THE J. GEILS BAND

SUSAN WHITALL

It was time for a big Rock Show at the monolith just outside of Detroit, Pontiac Stadium, and this wasnt no rock 'n' roll at the Hollywood Bowl, sir.

CREEMEDIA

Ed Naha

Ed Naha is the author of Horrors— From Screen To Scream (Avon Books), and the producer of a record, Gene Roddenberry: Inside Star Trek (CBS).

DRIVE-IN SATURDAY

Edouard Dauphin

Locusts and ants. Thats what were serving up this month. And you deserve to gag on em. Especially if youre dumb enough to waste your time on Exorcist II: The Heretic and Empire Of The Ants, a pair of pukers that could give bad movies a bad name.

Confessions of a FILM FOX

Neil Diamond will wander across your TV screen this fall via his Free Man In Paris special, loosely based on the singers life. Written by actress/director Jeanne Moreau (and how they ever got together is anyones guess), the film also co-stars Brigitte Bardot.

Stars Cars

ANN WILSON

Eleganza

Radical Chic

Lisa Robinson

Halston and Diane von Furstenburg havent been there yet, but Andy Warhol went to CBGBs to see the Talking Heads and the Ramones.

WHERE ANCIENT ROCK STARS GO TO DIE

Rick Johnson

How time flies when youve been having fun. Seems like only last Wednesday that all the cool kids were zooming around town with the tops cut off their Volvos, and from every tape player came the sounds of this great new “super-. group," Crosby, Stills & Nash.

ROCK-A-BYE, BABY TO SOME DIXIE MELODIES

The Mad Peck

Hello, I say HELLO. Foghorn Leghorn here with news of a delightful, I say DELIGHTFUL new collection of rock tunes grown right here in the heart of glorious Dixie.

ROCK • A • RAMA

CHARLES CHRISTOPHER PARKER, JR.—Bird/The Savoy Recordings (Master Takes) (Savoy)::This two record collection isnt the “definitive" Bird album—he was so prolific and his genius is scattered over so many different records that no single album can define his music—but it is the best currently available.

Extension Chords

Synthesizers Are Changing The Face Of Music...Again

The ARP Avatar really is amazing; it will do everything the manufacturer says it will do and more.

Rewire Yourself

Match Your Music With Your Ears

Richard Robinson

“In the broadest sense, the SG-9500 actually 'hand-tailors your music...to enhance your music-listening pleasure," says Pioneer of their stereo graphic equalizer.

Backstage

BACKSTAGE

Where the Stars Tank Up & Let Their Images Down