March 1971

Issues 1970s 1971

CONTENTS

Mail

MAIL

Dear CREEM: There’s a thing that needs straightening out.

ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS

Mike Gormely

Mickie Most (who has produced everyone from the Yardbirds to Donovan) has formed RAK records.

LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS WILD MEN

Michael Ross

I hope Wild Man Fischer never has to grow up.

Features

DAS HIP KAPITAL

Craig Karpel

Capitalists will always try to co-opt you. You have to be able to co-opt them.

Jugs, Washboards, Kazoos and Orange County

Bobby Abrams

The Return of Spencer Davis

Dave Marsh

Spencer Davis suffers from a peculiar affliction — his name is tied inextricably to that of Stevie Winwood, it’s almost certain that, first time around at least, he’s in bad shape. Even if Winwood hadn’t split the Davis Group after their two smashes, (their only two, aside from a minor jam called “Time Seller” that flitted in and out of the charts [with equal rapidity] in ’68 somewhere), Davis would probably still be a non-entity.

Winter Soldier Investigation

Nick Medvecky

"Brothers and sisters the time has come to testify"

SAN FRANCISCO BAY OIL

Jack Hafferkamp

The good the bad and the slick.

Features

BEANTOWN GET-DOWN

If you don’t have the J. Geils Band album, don’t try to talk to me about what’s happening.

Loony Toons

Dave Marsh

Rock and roll begain in a twilight zone, a pure thing swirling in out of a pretty pristine void.

ROCK DIARY

John Mendelsohn

How unspeakably fantastic it was to see the TAMI show, again, the other evening, for the first time since its original release in 1965!

Creemedia

Stones Flick: Gore & Gimme

John Kane

It’s like waking up on a Sunday morning in 1963 and sitting down to watch the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald on national television while a rock ’n roll album blares forth in the background.