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Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader.(Vernacular Musics)(Book Review)
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader. Edited by John Morthland. New York: Anchor Books, 2003. [xviii, 409 p. ISBN 0-375-71367-0. $15.]
Lester Bangs, who wrote for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and above all else, Creem magazine from the late 1960s until the early 1980s, exemplified and largely created the notion of rock critic as rock star, right down to his untimely death at age 33, in 1982. And like many a young deceased rock star, Bangs's legend--and beyond-the-grave product--has grown unabated. Within a few years Greil Marcus, Bangs's first editor at Rolling Stone and something of a rock star-critic himself, compiled and edited ...
- `Mainlines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader': Rock 'n' roll...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Eberhart, John Mark August 12, 2003 700+ words
...Blood Feasts and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader,'' edited by John Morthland...Zappa rule was the late, great Lester Bangs. Bangs has been dead since 1982...1969 until his death in 1982, Lester Bangs was one of the most prolific rock...
- The Rock-Solid Lester Bangs: A Collection by the Late Critic
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Michael Edens January 28, 1988 700+ words
...REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG By Lester Bangs Edited by Greil Marcus Knopf...about rock 'n' roll, but what Lester Bangs had to say about rock 'n' roll...desperate clown, but it's the Lester Bangs who "felt the chill and lived...
- Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader.(Book review)
- Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch Zielinski, Nick November 1, 2009 700+ words
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader Lester Bangs Edited by John Morthland Anchor 1745 Broadway...10019 USA 9780375713675 $15.00 Music Critic Lester Bangs, who died of a Darvon overdose in 1982 had (and...
- The Lester Bangs of video games: sorry, that was misleading. There is no Lester...
- Magazine article from: Esquire July 1, 2006 700+ words
...specific games mean in any context outside the game itself. There is no Pauline Kael of video-game writing. There is no Lester Bangs of video-game writing. And I'm starting to suspect there will never be that kind of authoritative critical voice...
- Rock journalism: Is the write stuff long gone?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Philpot, Robert September 15, 2000 700+ words
...a seasoned rock critic named Lester Bangs dispenses advice to William Miller...and directing movies in his 20s. Lester Bangs, however, is real _ or rather...Almost Famous" will know who Lester Bangs was, but for those who do, the...
- CHRONICLING ROCK 'N' ROLL'S BEAT WRITER.(Perspective)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) February 14, 1988 700+ words
...Michael Eck "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" by Lester Bangs, Edited by Greil Marcus. Alfred A. Knopf, $19...not intelligent. And they are certainly not artists. Lester Bangs, the perfect model of a modern music critic if there...
- Raucous Riffs on Rock.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: American Journalism Review Stepp, Carl Sessions June 1, 2003 700+ words
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader Edited by John Morthland Anchor Books 400 pages; $15 It's too bad gonzo rock critic Lester Bangs didn't survive into the Internet age, because his...
- IN BRIEF
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Ben Thompson December 8, 1996 700+ words
Psychoctic Reactions and Carburettor Dung by Lester Bangs, ed Greil Marcus, Serpent's Tail pounds 11.99. For anyone who ever wondered what earned Lester Bangs the distinction of being the only rock writer to be favourably...
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