February 1980
CREEM
There are no moccasin factories in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. (There is a noodle factory if Chief Dan "Buddy" George wants to send the entire population of America there.) Angus McIntosh Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Kanada P.S. If Blondie is a group, does that mean Debbie Harry is a person?
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
ASHFORD & SIMPSON: "Stay Free" (Warner Bros.):: Not only is this token of tribute to the great god Disco less intense than the nonpareil Is It Still Good to Ya, its notably less memorable than Send It, which offers three songs that beat anything here.
Creem Profiles
B-52s
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
ROCK “N ROLL NEWS
"DONT TREAD ON ME" Update: Following Glenn Freys comment that "What this country needs in the White House is a good guitar player," fellow Eagle Joe Walsh, believing he fits the bill (ignorance is bliss), promised a Cleveland audience that if he is elected, he will make the Mistake-By-The-Lake capitol of the Universe.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Walter Wacasz
DETROIT—They are a deep bunch. A collection of thieves, bikers, French students, teenyboppers, magazine editors, record label personnel. They gather together, all over Detroit, to see the Mutants. (These Mutants are not to be confused with San Franciscos.
Letter From Britain
TOO LATE FOR TEARS
Penny Valentine
We are watching TV when a documentary of why thousands of people are starving to death in Cambodia comes on the screen.
Features
POLICE REPORT: MESSAGE FROM THREE BOTTLE BLONDS
Susan Whitall
We started receiving phone calls here at B.H. Central of some urgency about this new band, the Police.
Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Go: Rockabíllys Rabíd Moment
Robot A. Hull
So, seeing Narcissus wandering through the lonely country-side, Echo fell in love with him, and followed secretly in his steps.
THE RAT WHO WOULD WALK ON WATER
Charles Shaar Murray
Autumn: A light drizzle is falling on Edinburgh. It lacks forty minutes of midnight and most good citizens are abed. A few of the populace wander through the dampness, languidly travelling from here to there. On Princes Street, a knot of noisy young men search for a taxi, periodically collaring passers-by and interrogating them as to the whereabouts of an establishment known as the Astoria Club, where at this very moment Wilko Johnsons Solid Senders are filling a room with harsh incantatory R&B voodoo.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Calendar
CALENDAR
Rewire Yourself
WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF NEXT
Richard Robinson
Times may be tough, but the giant corporations whose profit margins depend on compulsive consumption of non-essentials arent giving up so easily.
THE SHIRTS: Out On The Ropes In Brooklyn
Ed Kelleher
The author of Look Homeward, Angel wasn’t talking about the Grateful Dead or even The Living Dead.
MEAT TO THE BEAT
Dave DiMartino
Doin it in roadie with Blondie & Meat Loaf.
CREEMEDIA
Jeffrey Morgan
Despite its numerous failures (not the least of which is a complete lack of in-depth characterization), this electic stew-brew of Apocalypse Now (rock-as-spectacle), The Young And The Restless (rock-as-melodrama) and Ziggy Stardust (rock-as-saviour) makes for good entertainment but, unfortunately, bad rock n roll.
DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
Bduoard Dauphin
Remember your old babysitter? She was skinny and dumpy, with too many school books and she coulda won the Miss Clearasil title hands down. Once your parents were gone, she couldnt wait to stuff you under the covers, raid the fridge for Creamsicles and yak to her dumb girl friend on the phone.
Confessions of a FILM FOX
A match made in hell? Hollywoods grapevine has it that Jane Fondas hot to co-star with John Travolta in a film. Whatsa matter...cant Tom Hayden dance? Isnt prezhopeful Jerry Brown more than just a little miffed that his cupcake Linda Ronstadt wont perform in any benefits to promote his candidacy?
CREEM DREEM
PAT BENATAR
Stars Cars
BUN E. CARLOS
Extension Chords
NEW AXES FROM OLD WOODCHOPPERS
Allen Hester
Fender guitars are undeniably part of rock n roll.
Records
Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
THE MAD PECK
Lets assume that you didnt think that Songs in the Key of Life was a total bust.
ROCK • A • RAMA
Richard Riegel
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS—Survival (Island):: This album is something of a comeback from the Jimmy Buffett-in-blackface dope tourism of Kaya , at least as far as getting Marley back on the track of making with the Rastafarian protest songs.
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