I KNOW Lester feels lost in his own little world an
all...but he has nobody to blame but himself...and Iggy. I don't know if I was fortunate or not, but I got to see ol A.C. in Orlando in 73. That's when he had the sword trick goin on...

Wasn't Bangs hooked on cough syrup?

I also saw Alice in '73, in Dania during the Billion Dollar Babies tour. I was dead center of the stage, toes touching. He was probably wondering who was in charge of the little girl.

it had to have been the *good* stuff, cough syrup wise..50% grain/the rest who knows..

The Paregoric era. Alice was very entertaining..he
took a bunch of money and stabbed it with his sword
and was swinging it around - they were all ones and fives from what I could tell. A real cheapskate.

Lester reminds me of a town burnout I knew. His name
was/is Frank. He bloomed somewhere between Gram Parsons and Les Dudek. The first time I saw Frank, he had a crack across his glasses (visualize John Lennon) and appeared to be permanently tripping. Twenty years later...I ran into him near a construction/remodeling site. He was freaking out
because the vibrations had damaged one of his records..he STILL had the cracked specs..and was still tripping. (visualize Lester)

LB'd make some point and then go tearing off in another direction, ranting and waving his arms about.
It's ironic that a cough syrup junkie OD'd while treating a cold.

Yes, Alice was entertaining. After I got back home, I laminated my ticket down at the drugstore. I was 11 and had been to a bad-ass concert. Heh.

Geez, we had a town burn-out too. Bruce. All of 17 or so when his brain fried. It's a shame that was accepted as part of the game.

Is there some way we can have that pie-launcher ready for Neil Young's next tour?

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2006/04/new-neil-young-album-life-in-war-wont.html

Neil's starting to believe his own publicity, but at least he's expressing himself in the manner appropriate to a minstrel: through song. It's when they don't have talent enough to do that and have to preachify that ticks me off.

just don't get any mud on 'Ol Black'..

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e89/csason/57estd.jpg

Axl Rose or Sebastian Bach would have jumped into the audience and beat that guy's ass.

Axl Rose and Sebastian Bach no longer have careers. Heh.
He did a good job reclaiming the stage. Of course, he'd had lots and lots of practice dealing with hostile audiences in California, where they pretty much routinely got thrown out of places where they were trying to play.

roll-em big,smoke-em slow,wear sunglasses so the boss won't know.

jeez, any rock and roll fan worth his salt knows what the cooper gang went through in their metamorphosis from local big shots in arizona to the hungry days of being glam-fags in L.A. to superduper stars and top of the bill by 73. they would also know that lester bangs "style" was supposed to be the equivalent of "rock and roll writing". i liked dave marsh because he liked The Who but now i think "i read what these dorks wrote because people said it was cool? i knew something was fishy in high school with that boy howdy crap".

lester bangs was no musician. i am and have been for over two thirds of my life. hyperbole aside, cooper and buxton, dunaway, smith, et al were a class act all the way as professionals and composers performers. iggy was zilch without his home town compatriots...raw power ain't even that good a record. both of the stooges 1st albums are good, if not really good from all kinds of points of view

BUT that jerk bangs gets felix pappalardi and Leslie West, one of the finest noo yawk jews to ever play six string soulful serenades mixed up.

Grr. hey, i wonder if people still read old creem articles every day and get excited about it all across the country like when the radio plays 'MISSISSIPPI QUEEN" a couple of times per and people CRANK that tune up and rock?

pfft....i never trusted anyone that liked lou reed. (whose best album is with the guys that worked with cooper and made his biggest singles AFTER the original B$Babies broke up).

vive le difference!! :)

Creem pushed real hard for guys like Iggy. And guess what? People didn't want to go there. It didn't play in Peoria.

ok, this is what 27 years of dope smoking gets you. "both of the stooges 1st albums were good."

lord, talk about chagrined! and i fancy meself a writer. guess that's why they say check your work before you hand it in. 1st and 2nd albums are good, if not mediocre-ly great!

too much "tv eye on me"!

(didn't play in peoria, indeed)

just ordered the 73 Cooper/B$Babies concert film. viva le 3 ring circus.

Did you order it from Amazon? I hope you ordered it through here; I need that 15 cents.

deepdiscountdvd.com. alas, i shall have to send you royalties for co-opting your style when/if i ever start a blog. like anyone wants to read another opinion about dead bands and conservative values. :)

Jeez, that hurts as much as when Gates of Vienna tried to compliment me by summing me up as "crusty."
F*ckers.