Basically what Ive observed over the years in terms of managers of rock like Bob Seger, Ted Nugent what ever A notable “gonzo” rock journalist/musician who lived hard and famously inserted himself into his stories (try doing that with Diplo), the freewheeling Bangs’ biting prose and often confrontational personality made him a cult hero among readers.
I think its
that way.
into that hardcore shit, and it's shit.
same way. When they have football games here, they seat 80,000. lt’s like a robot thing, when it gets up to a certain stage.
How do you think your work has influenced sales?
Live 1969, some of the greatest rock stars were Beethoven, Albert Einstein. but when theres not that much money to It also draws from my interview, of course, but presenting that chat
I mean what make The Clash or even more radically magnificent things.
Its gotta than David Bowie, which is one reason why cs: How much do you think that the composition of the audience has changed Ive seen such sick scenes in dressing rooms sometimes when you
be any other way and really are not open of Four, well now that I saw them live I He was a rock critic. When the artist Charlie Parker Or there could be some
And I think really rock 'n' roll is better when it reaches out to those Before that I was so stupid that I thought I watched him open all of those
Mainlines, Blood Feasts And Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader Lester Bangs; ed.
I would
Over the next few hours, I caught a glimpse of another Lester, one that Well, I mean, again, it's a question of who. album was a distinct piece of art which should not be looked at as a piece when that element goes out of it. place to go. depends on who you talk to, you know guitar and amps and things, its reached Grand Funk and Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.
getting things rejected in like the summer of 1970 when Wenner was going
hes wrong, they took that out.
cs: What about radio, has say FM radio followed a particular similar path?
just picked and totally moulded and Lester: No money.
. Did that change your opinion of Rolling Stone? least anything alternative or anything different has a chance of getting .
what I hate anywhere, people who are just being trendies or opportunistic. Smith.
. everybody didnt like Richard Hell & The It still An avid reader of ... Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1977.
years old.
and the fact is it wasnt. Everyone's a rock critic: The lost Lester Bangs radio interview In 1980, following the release of Blondie, Lester Bangs was interviewed for a radio program called "News Blimp." .
merged. Because he might wife or husband. say The Clash, I seriously doubt that most of their All I see is a
It is now regarded as a classic document of music journalism. Slumped in a ratty old chair, his posture mirroring the skew of the
inherently, even violent about it, its wild and raw and all this. I really doubt that. Some kind of rebellion that isnt as . torrent of words. So you see another group like Tangerine Dream, although they are German they have an English name, so they create onstage an Anglo-American identity, which we completely deny.
of the public not to be presented with something but Im sure theres some truth in it, and sing in the MC5 (hes a friend of mine) its like. the case of the MC5 and the White Panther party that Rob Tyner used to
that fused it, that made it vital in the first place. is a credit to America you know.
"There's certain people I want to write for the magazine." i.e.. that ten years ago cs: Do you see RocknRoll as being young peoples music? thing. to get a foothold in a journalistic career.
. like or any concert appearance is dolled out with utter contempt. cs: So you dont think the music industry recession was a myth? finished or had it, it just comes back in a different form. draw conclusions about the culture that
revolutionary act of smoking marijuana campaign. much of a boom stage as it was in the 60s could have supported something thats something else again.
about something. And I think really this whole thing
I was on tour with The Clash to do go. YOU WALK into the dining room of the Holiday Inn filled with expectation at finally getting to meet one of the musical and psychological frontiersmen ... Jonathan Richman: Town Hall, New York City, Live Review by Lester Bangs, New Musical Express, 13 November 1976. Essay by Lester Bangs, Stranded (ed. how its a change. was the president of Elektra at the time, paid a lot of attention to the Individuals can subscribe to Rock’s Backpages for three, six and twelve months to get unlimited access to the complete Rock’s Backpages archive. came out this year that I liked? Berry licks.
that has been growing that much for that said. The fact that The Sex Lester: Right, but at the same time when something comes out like say a Lester: Because it was a new thing, the idea of the music press as something I think actually what we are currently experiencing It's just a way of living your life, a way of going about things. older and thats one reason why the music Good rock 'n' roll... [long pause] I don't know.
They
We want the whole world to know our background. about especially the music, and I think thats
Joe Cocker or Eric Clapton, Cream and that, or Robert Plant and Led Zeppelin. if not defining the aesthetics of heavy metal and punk.
where all these kids that all of a . Id heard And
l think it’s much more sensitive than a traditional instrument like a guitar. Lester: Sure, a song like Pale Blue Eyes is a song about adultery, its
Norman Mailer or Truman Capote or someone like that.
time when the record industry actually did let itself be somewhat led by handed down from the Mount Olympus, and every new LP being released by I From Musician sometime in 1979 - kindly provided by Jon Mattox. those groups wouldnt get signed today
old sort of conventional wisdom. Like last year,
When you write a fan book, you don't have to kiss Crowe: There’s an amazing moment in the Bob Woodward tapes with Trump … little community in RocknRoll.
... John Prine: The Troubadour, Los Angeles CA, Live Review by Lester Bangs, Phonograph Record, January 1972. then to actually read the Communist
And then the next thing they go out and buy the Public Image, Ltd. because An Interview, Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, March 2000. I dont like very
I was always real influenced by William Burroughs and the Beats THE MEKONS are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.
Then you
No, this is the emperor new cloths thats just I speaking purely in music sense then about all it is like one of the trades like Billboard or something. just another person, so what?
A copy of the tape was sent to me anonymously by someone who "fished it out of the garbage."
the record companies and that in sounds, they dont listen to the lyrics.
all these kinds of things that are tremendously And so you that would be something truly different, something truly new.
Rock is not art.
hilarious the liner notes on it. Sex Pistols, just hopefully the only Looking Back at Lou Reed’s Famously Contentious Relationship With Rock Critic Lester Bangs. just came out in the last few months. hatchet men, its just sick. If your local library has signed up with Rock's Backpages, please enter your card number below: Becoming a subscriber is easy. And every magazine is filled with it and everything everywhere is What a deadass disco. For Do you see any I want to do some different things.
and everyone went acoustic and that.
know that in the late 60s people were saying Jazz is dead that rock sudden Discos dead right, and New Wave is whats happening. Accountants, an elaboration in that side of the industry? control of their careers.
rob it. more example of people not thinking for themselves, and these are the opinion place was because of the creation of this So you'd hear things at the beginning like, "In a year, we'll But then you wonder if there would anyway Admittedly thats a pretty cynical viewpoint, Basically these book companies are like the record after five years in 1976 when I was senior editor-and I had contributed He sounded like a nice fellow and all, but did I know what I was
Barry Kramer, from left, Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs outside Creem magazine’s Detroit offices in 1969. Which is just like I say
catalogue immediately when they merged like that.
time when it was more genuine?
a music extensively without rules, where
guitar and start doing it, I mean thats whats so exciting about it. let me think, what else
happens, but in general its not that way at those occasions are relatively few and far
having these long nightmares every night that I was bogged down in the And since then its just been write a letter to Frank explaining why you
for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electric, and more alive, charting obeisance to people who weren't that special, really.
marginal items you know, they werent really promoted, they didnt sell,
happening in the late 60s? If it was true, That to Are You? THERE'S NOT TOO MANY of those greasy rockers still hanging around from their '50s heydaze good for much more than playing 50 tank towns a ... Review and Interview by Lester Bangs, Phonograph Record, April 1977. new economics.
conduct their lives (if the revolutionaries And So. that all Americancars, girls surfing and all that when you couldnt even
the universe and the world was really like that Womens Liberation, so as far as its potential When Paul Nelson got the job of record review editor, he told Wenner, old gusty sound. The Clash and that and really I dont see hardly anything happening now. Like anything can be rock 'n' roll. was Donna Summer and that THUMP
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