― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Edward III, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Gorge, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
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― NYCNative, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Edward III, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
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― ian, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
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― ian, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
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― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara Sara Sara, Thursday, 19 April 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 April 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
From "Lester Bangs - Last Interview" by a then-17-year old Jim DeRogatis:
Do you think there's a danger of rock 'n' roll becoming extinct?Yeah, sure. Definitely. What would there be to take its place? Video games.
What would there be to take its place? Video games.
― NYCNative, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
now if only JDR had taken this^ to heart...
― gravity tractor VS asteroid B612 (m coleman), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously,"video games = death of rock" was a popular music-biz meme ca.1982
― gravity tractor VS asteroid B612 (m coleman), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Now that the music-playing game genre has been declared dead, I wonder how many adherents moved on to actual guitar playing.
― bendy, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Have to say I never cared for either his writing style or, all too often, his musical tastes.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
A couple of posts on Facebook alerted me to the fact that it's the 30th anniversary of his death. I'm guessing there are one or two older posters here who can say they met him. I interviewed Chuck and Marcus in '86; I'd like to think that if I'd started a little later or he'd lived a little longer, I would have tried to interview Bangs (and succeeded, I imagine--he seemed extremely accessible). I didn't start reading Creem till '80 or thereabouts, so I'd read very little by him before the first book came out--really only some Rolling Stone reviews in an early-'70s collection, and some RS reviews later in the decade, when Paul Nelson was publishing him regularly. I tried to write like him early on, and of course it was egregiously wrong. Blaming him for the misdeeds of people like me makes no sense.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 April 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't read it yet, but a New Yorker contributor on Bangs's influence on her:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/08/how-lester-bangs-taught-me-to-read.html
― clemenza, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link