November 1979
CONTENTS
Please send letters to: MAIL Dept., CREEM Magazine P.O.Box P-1064 Birmingham, Ml 48012 I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE ART DEPT. I'm still shaking—you almost put Elvis Costello on your cover! Well, back in May you gave it ago...how can I possibly thank you for not splashing the "Big Boy's" mug from staple to staple? I know you knew that would only make more people think he sold out, if you had. Going over the letters in your "Mail" section (not one confession, but a few cracked), I saw someone had signed the name "Robin Banks."
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL: "Served Live" (Capitol):: Side one is playable, although "God Bless The Child" was born under a bad sign and the hot live performances don't suit the living room as weD as the more delicate studio versions available on three out of five songs.
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
OK all you Cheep Trick fans, get out the handkerchiefs: Tom Petersson was secretly married, in August, to his German girlfriend Dagmar. The pair flew off to Las Vegas to do the dirty deed, when Tom had two days off from the CT tour. What can we say?
THE BEAT GOES ON
Mark J. Norton
DETROIT—Womanizing, the oldest sport known to man, has been researched and discussed to disgust by everyone from Masters and Jonnson to Ann Landers. The only real conclusion they have come to is that no matter which way you look at it, once you're past the hair and the smell, you've got it licked.
Features
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO PERE UBU
Robot A. Hull
In CB lingo, Cleveland is the Dirty City, where sulfur dioxide permeates human pores.
I Don't Like Hangovers
Penny Valentine
I hadn't been to Clash for a while (we missed their Christmas concerts due to being in America and soaking up Talking Heads at the Beacon and the fireworks in Central Park) so we decided to combine enjoyment with political conscience and catch them at a special Rock Against Racism gig "People Unite—Southall Kids Are Innocent".
DR. IGGY & MR. POP
Nick Kent
Iggy didn't change a thing about Johnny's previous predicament—he just used him for a walk-on part in an autobiographical work he created entitled "Lust For Life."
Creem Profiles
BLONDIE
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
Extension Chords
Finger-Pickin’ Good!
Allen Hester
Today's guitar-buying public is faced with its share of disheartening economic facts, not the least of which is the continuously rising cost of new American-made instruments.
CREEM DREEM
BEBE BUELL
PETE TOWNSHEND POSTER & CALENDAR
The Complete, Unexpurgated, Fully Illustrated DAVE EDMUNDS Story From A TO Z
Robert Duncan
CREEM: So are you happy with the new record?
Rewire Yourself
Dirty Records
Richard Robinson
There's one fatal flaw in the business of putting music on record, and that's the method used to get the music back off the record.
Unsung Heroes Of Rock ‘n’ Roll
AMOS MILBURN: The Chicken Shack Factor
Nick Tosches
"I was a heavy drinker. I loved that Scotch. And the devil kept tellin' me: Go on, Amos, drink all you want to, it'll never hurt you none. I drank myself into two strokes."
Features
LED ZEPPELIN REDUX
Chris Salewicz
Of all the old superfart bands it is certainly Led Zeppelin who have been and still are the most reviled by the New Wave.
Stars Cars
IAN HUNTER
Wrong Ring, Wrong Classification
Joe Goldberg
Unfortunately, Charles Mingus' death was of the kind that allows for considerable advance notice. It also coincided with a Long Awaited, Highly Publicized, Major Project from Joni Mitchell, an album of Mitchell performing her lyrics to Mingus tunes, some of them written especially for her.
When Paranoia Strikes Deep
Robot A. Hull
"Seems I was holding a wrench, momma And then my mind just walked away." Jack Kittel, "Psycho" Jack Kittel's 74 country horror classic is a frightening account of a psychopathic killer told through the deranged mind of the looney himself as he murders his ex-wife and her lover, a boy's puppy, a neighbor's little girl, and finally his own mother—a bloodbath song that would even scare the madness out of Chainsaw's Leatherface.
DULL DOODOO FOR DADA DORKS!!!
THE MAD PECK & ROBOT A. HULL
ROCK • A • RAMA
Richard C. Walls
VARIOUS ARTISTS—Honkers and Screamers/Roots of Rock 'n' Roll Vol. 6 (Savoy):: Here's a real room clearer, 30 cuts from '48 thru '61 featuring five of the all time frenzied tenor sax players—Lee Allen, Big Jay McNeely, Hal "Cornbread" Singer, Sam "The Man" Taylor, Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams.
Our Motto: Americathon Now!
Jeffrey "Speed" Morgan
Civilized and sodomized? Maybe. But down and out? NEVER!
CONFESSIONS OF FILM FOX
Don't tell Bianca, but estranged hubby Mick Jagger reportedly slipped into Santa Barbara for a few days, staying at the home of Beach Boy Mike Love. Meanwhile, that Nicaraguan rose pulled a Vanessa Redgrave at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland recently, when she seized the opportunity to take the stage and appeal to the world for financial aid to her homeland.
Prime Time
Bichard C. Walls_
As this is being written, early on a humid, over-heated and fetid Detroit August, while second-hand fanscirculate and re-circulate the heavy unfriendly air thru my modest pseudo-slum dwelling, while my dog lies beached at my feet, exhausted from too much panting, and my cat dumps in the window pane watching with resignation as the grass of my untended lawn begins to caress the front door (the mice die of heat stroke only inches from the cheese and the trap—what puny sport they offer! Perhaps, she thinks, within the encroaching weeds and grass a hearty breed of winter mice is incubating), while my girlfriend kneels in front of the open refrigerator with her head in the crisper, seeking relief among the lettuce...
Backstage
BACKSTAGE
Where the Stars Tank Up & Let Their Images Down