August 1979
CREEM
CREEM CONTENTS
After reading your review of Hair, we know you feel the same way. (By the way, did the Warriors kill the hippies at the end of the movie? If they did, let this be a lesson to all of us.) Anyway, our advice is: Kill every hippie you see, even those who may only exhibit some hippie traits.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND: "Enlightened Rogues" (Capricorn):: The heartening sense of overall conviction here doesn't extend into many specifics, with the surprising exception of Gregg's roughly detailed vocals. But Ronnie Van Zant himself couldn't breathe life into these songs, most of which Dickey Betts was saving up for the third Great Southern album— now never to be heard, which is one good thing.
ROCK 'n' ROLL NEWS
Public puke on nukes! Madison Square Garden will play host to a super dooper anti-nuclear benefit September 18 and 19, featuring Jackson Browne, the Doobie Bros., James Taylor (who even looks like a victim of radioactive fallout!), Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, John Holland a cast of thousands.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Carrie Grant
DETROIT — Obviously inspired by the incandescent pairing of James Brown and the Grand Ol' Opry several months ago, punk doyenne (and Detroit resident) Patti Smith created her own twisted tandem here in the Motor City May 17th & 18th, when she stood up for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Creem Profiles
THE ROCKETS
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
RUBINOOS: Theoretical Boys In Search Of The Summer Single
Mitch Cohen
It is a perfect world: the date is anywhere between May 15 and June 28; you are fourteen years old, and the days are getting longer.
Letter From Britain
Mods Recycled
Odd things, revivals.
DRINK IT BEFORE IT BITES: CREEM’S GUIDE TO BEER
Rick Johnson
Quick—what's the national pastime?
TOM ROBINSON BAND: The Song, Not The Singer
Simon Frith
My choice had been simple. The Buzzcocks are a straight pop group, entertaining and predictable, but TRB had hit real trouble. The critics descended on TRB 2 like vultures, picking over its pieces with cackles of disdain. People were beginning to say, "I told you so, never did think much of their music.
ROD STEWART
SURVIVE! How I Toured With THE DAMNED...And Lived
Saturday: ''This is why the Russians don't bother to steal British secrets."
CREEMEDIA
Summer has generally descended upon us by this time of year like a big, sticky Lawn Furniture Webbing Center, and you know whatthat means. The whole country turns into an iron foxhole, everybody is allowed a sanctioned vacation from Real Life and you're faced with the usual all-or-nothing nature of prickly-heat season.
DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
Edouard Dauphin
Heads chopped off. Eyeballs gouged out. Intestines devoured. A screwdriver in the throat. If these aren't your idea of fun and games, you're probably too chickenshit to last ten minutes at Dawn Of The Dead, a new screen puker that will. have Charles Manson and Son Of Sam saying "Enough already."
Confessions of a FILM FOX
Woody's Watergate? The sole copy of the 1971 flick, The Politics Of Woody Allen, was lifted from PBS-TV's N.Y. offices—but what year, is a mystery. PBS had nixed the film in '71 for "legal and taste reasons," after ill attempts to cut certain colorful scenes (i.e., a nun calling a Kissinger character a sex freak).
THE SWEET STYLISH PILLAGE OF THE NEW BARABARIANS
Robert Duncan
Unsung Heroes Of Rock ‘n’ Roll
WYNONIE HARRIS: The Man Who Shook Down The Devil
Nick Tosches
We know that rock 'n' roll, like panty hose and the sea, was not a human invention; that it was the work of the Holy Ghost.
Stars Cars
DAVID LEE ROTH
Rewire Yourself
For Sale—One Slightly Used Sony Betamax
Richard Robinson
Richard Robinson bought a Sony Betamax three years ago. He paid about $1,100 dollars for the machine.
WINGS WEITED DOWN
Rick Johnson
When Patti Smith first came lurking out of the hallways of paralyzed slogans, her power rhymes and stark verbal movieolas were peacefully flawed sensations playing with the soul of some long forgotten American dangers.
Records
Ramones Go Down on the Permanent Record
Gregg Turner
A record that will follow you oil through your life.
BOOBDOM’S BIGGEST PAIR!!!
MAD PECK
ROCK • A • RAMA
AN EVENING WITH HERBIE HANCOCK & CHICK COREA (Columbia);TOMMY FLANAGAN AND HANK JONES—Our Delights (Galaxy)::Two very distinct developments of the piano duet premise—Herbie and Chick (sounds like the names of two second bananas in a WWII comedy) like to stretch out mixing a little blues, a little bombast and a lot of impressionistic experimentation while Tommy and Hank prefer compact renditions of jazz standards with the swing unrelenting and the bop pervasive.
Backstage
BACKSTAGE
Where the Stars Tank Up & Let Their Images Down