Remember Creem magazine?

[Smasher_Sloan]

They're fighting over it now:

http://www.observer.com/2007/no-rock-love-gents-try-creem-each-other

It was must-reading back in the day -- Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Greg Shaw....

 

[mike311gd]

What a brilliant headline: "No Rock of Love as Gents Try to Creem Each Other."

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

There's a coffee table history of it out now with some of the original articles.
Alas, Bangs doesn't age well.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Whoever would have thought <i>anything</i> from Creem would have wound up between hard covers?

 

[BYH]

I will not rest until I put together the best-of Circus book. (hi Flash!)

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

I will not rest until I put together the best-of Circus book. (hi Flash!)

Are you too busy working on Best of (s)Hit Parader and Best of RIP in the meantime?

By the way...I need your address so I can get you a gift subscription to Metal Edge.

I still have several copies of Creem from back in the day. I'm always on the lookout for copies at garage and estate sales in hopes that I might be able to put together a full run someday. Does anyone remember when Creem relaunched in the early 90s? It was an oversized mag similar in size to early Spin. Didn't last too long. And I'm all over that book! Saw it at Borders a couple of days ago. That ****er pwned me.

 

[Bubbler]

Remember Screw Magazine?

Didn't think so.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

As a smart-ass college kid, I worked up something I thought was brilliant and fired it off to Creem HQ in rural Michigan. It came back a week or so later with one of their famous form rejection slips, BUT there was also a personal note from Lester Bangs saying, “There's no room for this right now, but your wit and sass mark you as a true Creem-dome, so please try us again.”

I was as thrilled by that as I would have been by a $25 check had the thing been accepted.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I will not rest until I put together the best-of Circus book. (hi Flash!)

He kids, and yet....

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/features/circus/circus-intro.html

 

[BYH]

I will not rest until I put together the best-of Circus book. (hi Flash!)

He kids, and yet....

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/features/circus/circus-intro.html

Smasher, you son of a *****. Here I was ready to log off and, you know, sleep and, you know, get up at a reasonable hour today and, you know, accomplish something, and you spring this on me. Now I have to read it all. You *******. May the voice of Jay Horwitz haunt you as you try to sleep.

This guy had the best name I've ever seen: Mordechai Kleidermacher. I remember seeing that name every month and going "That HAS to be fake."

And I remember the New Kids on the Block cover he references. I remember it like it was yesterday, standing in my favorite record shop, reading that magazine and just frothing with rage. The New Kids on the Block? What the ****ing ****? I quit Circus that day, so I have no idea about the Arrested Development that further spelled doom.

His interview is a great read for anyone who has ever worked at a small pub and had to move mountains to get anything done with anybody of note. I guess I'll read the rest of the interviews now too. Thanks Smasher. You *******.

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

Remember Screw Magazine?

Didn't think so.

The Al Goldstein mag?

 

[Huggy]

Remember Screw Magazine?

Didn't think so.

The Al Goldstein mag?

I remember that. Have two copies buried in the basement somewhere.

As for Creem, which I would puruse at my local Mister Sound store, Boy Howdy!

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

 

[lono]

There's a coffee table history of it out now with some of the original articles.
Alas, Bangs doesn't age well.

Blame it on a steady diet of Romilar and Reds.

 

[Football_Bat]

The first copy of Creem I ever leafed through at in the local Alco magazine rack in 1983 had this lyric for the Police's "Synchronicity II":

Another suburban morning

I was immediately out. Incomplete lyric infraction.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Combed his hair in a thousand ways....

 

[Huggy]

Speaking of lyrics, anyone remember Song Hits? A lame-o feature on the flavour of the week and then lyrics (usually wrong) to the top 40 songs inside?

 

[dooley_womack1]

Remember Screw Magazine?

Didn't think so.

The Al Goldstein mag?

I remember that. Have two copies buried under my mattress somewhere.

As for Creem, which I would puruse at my local Mister Sound store, Boy Howdy!

 

[EStreetJoe]

I probably have a copy or two of Creem (that have Springsteen articles) laying around somewhere.