June 1971
CONTENTS
Dear CREEM: About a year ago a friend introduced me r to CREEM. The mag filled in a gap that Rolling Stone didn’t quite close.
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Disc and Music Echo, the British teen weekly, just published their pop poll for 1971.
D for the Dead
Robert Christgau
And the Dead were dead as a doornail.
Aretha and Ray Kick it Out
Jonh Ingham
Starring Tower of Power, King Curtis and the Kingpins, and Aretha Franklin
Demolishing the Record Cover
Pete Stone
LONDON — Hell. Curved Air seemed to pop up overnight and have taken a year to do it.
Bucky Fuller: The Cracking of a Geodesic Egghead
Kenny Fink
The other nite I went to see a fully accredited culture hero.
The Real Rock 'n’ Roll Underground
Greg Shaw
Do you ever get so sick of the latest Leon Russell or Ten Years After album that you switch off the FM radio in disgust and head for the closet to root out those old Elvis 45s you’ve had since you were a kid?
Since I Lost My Baby
R. Serge Denisoff
The pop way of death.
Features
High Times with Flash Cadillac
John Shaw
On receiving a call from the most prestigious public relations firm in the Los Angeles music world I had but one thought: “Oh shit.”
Features
ROCK-A HULA CLARIFIED
Greil Marcus
Our story begins just after midnight, not so very long ago.
RAZZ-MA-TAZZ FUNNEEZ
Looney Toons
Dave Marsh
It is the most supremely elegant piece of rock ‘n’ roll music I’ve ever heard.
WE ARE NORMAL AND WE WANT OUR FREEDON
John Mendelsohn
For your dining and dancing pleasure, some paranoid rantings.
Features
PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG
Lester Bangs
A Tale Of These Times
Creemedia
FILM
Richard Cromelin
Mad Dogs & Englishmen, The Sliding Pond, more
BOOKS
R. Serge Denisoff
What the world does not need is yet another rock Book. Charlie Gillett, Jerry Hopkins, and Carl Belz have done uneven but credible histories; and Jon Eisen and Greil Marcus have tapped a preponderance of good non-academic articles dealing with the subject.
ALI KO’S FRAZIER!
R. Meltzer
He knocked him out in the first round.
Records
RECORDS
Gran Funk, Swamp Dogg, Michael Nesmith, more
BOOTLEGS AND BARGAIN-BIN OLDIES
Len Bailes
BLUES RECORDS
Gary Von Tersch
BLACK 45’S
Gary Von Tersch and Lee Hildebrand
The types of black music currently being released on singles are as varied and numerous as ever.
Juke Box Jury
Greg Shaw