September 1977
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UPTIGHT ABOUT HER TIGHTS Every time I play Kiss and lay back and get those sounds through the phones, I think of the super-looking woman in the Danskins. I thought you showed star form, to say the least. Simmons was right about your legs. I loved your article and am glad it made the Best of CREEM, it was more than worthy.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
THE GREGG ALLMAN BAND: “Playin' Up A Storm" (Capricorn):: One expected the new band to cook, but the spiced-up song formulas are a surprise—and the timing, grit, and passion of Gregg’s singing simply astpnishing. My wife thinks Cher must be the first woman ever to make him feel something, while I suspect a sibling rivalry is brewing with Dickey. First round to (Cher) (big brother).
ROCK 'n' ROLL NEWS
Vivacious thrush Stevie Niche is currently nested in a house in L.A. that used to belong to silent screen star Vilma Hanky, a foreign beauty who was married to another early idol, Rod LaRoque. Said Stevie: “You can tell the house once belonged to someone glamorous. It has a real presence about it." It might have looked like the Damned's REat Scabies and Runaway Joan Jett were about to get cozy in last month’s Backstage photo, but actually they came to blows minutes after our photographer took the picture.
The Beat Goes On
LOS ANGELES—A few months ago The Babys were reported missing here by their manager, Adrian Miller, on Rodney Bingenheimer’s Sunday night radio show. He stated that The Babys (Walt Stocker, Tony Brock, John Waite and Mike Corby) had disappeared after an afternoon fun session by their Hollywood hotel pool.
Creem Profiles
Z. Z. TOP
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
RAY MANZAREK’S NITE CITY
Patrick Goldstein
The dark side of L.A.
Features
WHAT MAKES HEART BEAT?
Air-Wreck Genheimer
We're just real boring, little dressed-up girls. -Ann Wilson
FRANKIE MILLER’S HIGH LIFE & TIMES
Susan Whitall
The last time I was in London Cass Elliott deep-sixed on a ham sandwich in a Mayfair hotel.
Letter From Britain
Queen Of The Silver Squalour
Simon Frith
You’re gonna have to take a little nationalist fervour here.
Features
DANCING WITH MR. D [-O-G]
Susan Whitall
Ted Nugent to you.
Fun Fun Fun Fun With IGGY!
Billy Altmam
Here is Iggy Pop, in 1977, not only alive and kicking but out on tour with a new album.
THE SMALL FACES Never Went Away
Simon Frith
“The Small Faces are BACK!” screamed Steve Marriott.
Features
STEVE MILLER LAYS THE GOLDEN EGG
Steve Clarke
“Things are much, much better for me now,” says Steve Miller.
Creemedia
Singin’ the Rock Woman Blues
We had just returned from a gig and I switched on the television for Rock Follies.
CREEM DREEM
ABBA
Stars Cars
JEFF BECK
Confessions of a FILM FOX
Luscious-lipped Linda Ronstadt is set to make her debut in Dino DeLaurentiis’ screen adaptation of the best-selling novel, Ragtime. Talk has it that Linda got the role because Dino’s son is hot-hot-hot for the little lady. Alice Cooper going straight? The film version of Kart Vonnegat’s Breakfast Of Champions promises to feature the Coop in the role of a gay piano player.
Rewire Yourself
Video Up-Date
Richard Robinson
Home video is finally a commercial reality after ten years of false starts.
Records
CALL THE EXORCIST!
Joe Fernbacher
“I don’t have to worry/And you don’t have to care,” declares Peter Frampton at the beginning of “You Don’t Have to Worry” on his new album, and I’ll certainly drink to that.
Records
DORKS ON THE MARCH!
Billy Altman
Yep, Rock ‘n’ Roll With The Modern Lovers sure is a regular laff riot, right down to the title of the record.
Rock · a · Rama
DOUG SNYDER & BOB THOMPSON—Daily Dance (New Frontiers)::This one’s been out a while, but I’ve put off plugging it for fear of arousing charges of nepotism; seems as though Bob and Doug just happen to be two of your reviewer’s true soul brethren from a shared 1960’s adolescence in Fayette County, Ohio.
Extension Chords
A New Axe To Grind
Bill Parsley
“Hot ‘Lanta” was the scene of the 1977 NAMM (National Association of Musician Merchandisers) International Music Exposition.
AMPLIFICATION FROM THE BEGINNING
John McNicholl
Anyone who plays an instrument with some degree of commitment eventually imagines himself on stage captivating thousands of crazed fans. I do. I think fantasy gets sold with a guitar. When I began playing electric, I checked out several amplification companies.
Backstage
BACKSTAGE
Where the Stars Tank Up & Let Their Images Down